When Running and Comedy Collide- Liz Miele
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is someone who brings fun to the sport but isn’t looking into breaking a world record. Liz Miele is a seasoned marathon runner, a stand-up comedian at Comedy Central including “Live at Gotham”, she’s been on “Late Night with Conan o’Brien” and Access TV. She’s been featured in many press publications like the NY Times, Time at New York and the New Yorker, winner of the 2008 Gilda’s Club contest and a finalist at the 2008 March Comedy Madness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport |
| 0:07.0 | so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. |
| 0:11.0 | And now your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Runners Connect, Run to the Top |
| 0:21.1 | podcast. I like to bring on a variety of guests to the |
| 0:24.8 | podcast. We've had authors, researchers, important figures from history and of |
| 0:30.3 | course lots of professional runners. I like to think outside the books when it comes to the guests. |
| 0:35.6 | As long as they have a running story like Laura Hillenbrand sharing Louis Amperini's story, |
| 0:40.8 | or they love to run, they have something to share on this podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | Many of the guests I get are based off requests on the survey I did at the |
| 0:49.2 | beginning of the year before we relaunched the podcast. One of the requests was for a comedian. At the time, I thought that was a bit |
| 0:57.1 | silly. It was like, why would I get a comedian on a running podcast? But it was only recently |
| 1:02.2 | when we began the challenge Wardian hashtag, where I thought about how fun it would be to have someone on here who makes people laugh for a living. |
| 1:10.0 | I began searching the comedians who ran, and what I came up with was a mockumentary, yes I did say that right, called I'm a runner. I watched the video and I loved it. I knew this was who I wanted to bring on and as I researched her more and more I found running was not just about being out there doing it but what it brought to you outside. |
| 1:32.0 | She did not claim to be fast, she did not claim to be better than anyone else, |
| 1:36.0 | but she just loved to run and fit in her pants, those are her words, not mine. |
| 1:41.0 | It reminded me of one of those popular requests for the guests on the show, |
| 1:46.4 | more everyday people. If you could see me now, you would see that I'm using air quotation marks, |
| 1:52.4 | as I'm not sure there is really such a thing as an everyday person |
| 1:55.5 | but I know what people mean when they say that. Liz was just what I was looking for |
| 2:00.4 | someone who brings fun to the sport but isn't looking to break any world records and Liz I'm sure you won't mind me saying that |
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