What does it look like to age curiously, train smarter, and build a life of meaning—together?
Meet Joan Weisberg-Beyerlein and Doug Beyerlein: partners in life, love, and adventure. At 75, Joan is training for a 10-mile open water swim in Vermont. Doug is still running ultramarathons and logging 3-hour trail runs for fun. Between them, they’ve overcome addiction, burnout, injury, and the daily cultural script that says we should be slowing down by now.
In this lively, thoughtful, and often hilarious conversation, we unpack:
- How Joan went from overweight and smoking to marathon runner at 30—and then started swimming ag 65
- Doug’s journey from high school chess club president to finishing over 70 ultramarathons
- How they met later in life and built a bond rooted in adventure, reinvention, and play
- What it means to train with intention, embrace adaptive nutrition, and keep redefining yourself
- How to live so fully that you end up educating your own doctor about aging
This episode is about more than swimming or ultrarunning. It’s about living with joy, curiosity, and self-awareness—at any age.
🧠 Key Takeaways
- 🎯 You’re never too old to change your story—from addiction or burnout to high performance
- 🥗 What “adaptive nutrition” actually looks like in your 70s—and why one-size-fits-all fails us as we age
- 🧘 How injury can become a gateway to deeper self-awareness and healing
- ❤️ The joy of doing hard things together and how love itself can be an act of reinvention
- 🧪 Aging well = training the mind, body, and spirit with intention and playfulness
---
🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it
If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete
📰 Subscribe to the Ageless Athlete newsletter !
1-2x a month, no spam. We share behind-the-scenes reflections, longevity tips, and athlete wisdom you won’t find anywhere else. You can sign up at https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ 📩
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.