Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker.

When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers.

And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know.

If you're a new runner, or you've been doing this for a long time,

there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week are

Tina Muir and Zoe Rom, co-authors of the new book Becoming a Sustainable Runner. And as we're

going to talk about in this episode, we're going to talk about the book, but also about the

concepts of sustainability as it relates to running. The sustainability of our training, the sustainability

of our relationship with the sport, but also the sustainability factor of environmental

activism and how that relates to us as runners, and it's all connected.

I absolutely loved having this conversation with these incredible women.

If you haven't had a chance to pre-order the book, you should.

It comes out on Tuesday, August 15th.

And until then, I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Zoe and Tina, welcome to the show.

I'm so excited to have you here.

Excited to be here. Yeah, thank you. So for people who are unfamiliar with either of you,

both of you, Tina, you've been a guest in the show, but Zoe, you are a first time guest. Go ahead and let's start with you. Zoe, go ahead and tell us about yourself. My first question to all my guests,

and you are no exception, is I always want to know how did you become a runner and then tell us

a bit more about yourself. Yeah. I became a runner via the maybe not super popular New Year's

resolution route, resolved to run after graduating from high school volleyball as a way of just like staying

active and identified as a jogger for many, many years before falling fully off the deep end

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