The Endurance Experience Podcast

The Endurance Experience Podcast

Join Tony Rich, Level II USAT certified coach, certified sports nutritionist, certified master swim coach, Level II TrainingPeaks Certified coach, Guinness World Record holder and finisher of over 100 marathons including the World Marathon Challenge (7 Marathons, 7 Continenets, 7 Days). Together with guests they'll discuss the science of self-propelled motion and also explore some of the most important topics within the intersection of endurance sports training, health, fitness, society and life current events. Follow Us: Facebook: https://Facebook.com/EventHorizon.Tv Twitter: https://twitter.com/EventHorizonTv Instagram: https://instagram.com/eventhorizon.tv YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/EventHorizonTv

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EP. 68: Ultra Marathon Legend Dean Karnazes

September 6, 2025 • 57 mins
A conversation with Dean Karnazes, ultra-marathon runner, and author. Among many accomplishments he holds the record for the longest continuous run of 350 miles in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep, and winner of the Badwater 135 milre run in Death Valley California. His first book, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, details his ultra endurance running origins and accomplishments. He's since written 4 more b...
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EP. 67: The Enhanced Games w/Aron D'Souza, PhD

June 30, 2025 • 35 mins
A conversation with Aron D'Souza, PhD. He is the President of the Enhanced Games. The Enhanced Games are a privately funded sporting body that seeks to allow athletes to compete under performance enhancement under lucrative compensation arrangements.

Dr. D'Souza discusses the main proposition and goals of the Enhanced Games and he provides his position on the conflicts of interests that exist in traditional sport.

We talk about the r...
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EP. 66: A Conversation with Marathon Legend Amby Burfoot

May 29, 2025 • 54 mins
A conversation with running legend Amby Burfoot. Amby Burfoot stands as a titan in the running world. Crowned the Boston Marathon champion in 1968, he became the first collegian to win this prestigious event and the first American to claim the title since John Kelley in 1957.

As well as a stellar racing career of over 62 years, Amby channeled his passion for running into journalism. He joined Runner’s World magazine in 1978, rising ...
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EP. 65: Rise of the Fighter: Paul Holborn Winner of the 2025 World Marathon Challenge

March 2, 2025 • 66 mins
A conversation with Paul Holborn. He is a former boxer and winner of the 2025 World Marathon Challenge which is running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days. Paul Holborn didn’t go into the event to win, but after about 5 days Paul emerged as the men’s winner, completing the 777 in an average time of 3:22:36.  

We talk about his background as a boxer and the inspiring story of what eventually drove him to consider attempting the Wo...
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EP. 64: Athlete Psychology and Mental Skills w/Coach Patrick Smith, PhD

February 27, 2025 • 62 mins
A conversation with coach Patrick Smith, PhD. Coach Smith’s passion for sports was paralleled by a desire to revolutionize how we approach mental performance. With an undergraduate degree in marketing and a doctorate under the mentorship of Dr. Steven C. Hayes, a pioneering figure in psychology, he has dedicated his career to merging the most advanced behavioral science with the world of sports.  

We talk about everything from menta...
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EP. 63: A Brief New Years Message from Coach Tony

January 12, 2025 • 21 mins
A brief New Year's message from Coach Tony, host of the Endurance Experience Podcast.
  • Looking Back and Forward
  • The World Marathon Challenge.
  • 3 Words of coaching wisdom. 

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EP. 62: Best of The Endurance Experience Podcast Vol. 6

November 6, 2024 • 90 mins
Taking a look back at clips from 5 of the most downloaded episodes in Season 6 with updated commentary.

5:38: Nichole Andrews, RDN – Sugar Does Not Feed Cancer | @oncology.nutrition.rd | Full Podcast  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-54-sugar-does-not-feed-cancer-w-nichole-andrews-rdn/id1462408148?i=1000630494329

19:35: Andrew Jones, PhD – Super Shoes, Marathon Record Performances and Training Strategies | @andybeetroot | Ful...
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EP. 61: The Female Athlete: Fairness, Inclusion and Performance w/Kerry McGawley, PhD

September 22, 2024 • 81 mins
A conversation with coach Kerry McGawley, PhD. She is a Professor at Mid Sweden University with a broad research agenda in the female athlete, and menstruation effects on training, and racing performance. She is a coach and 2x age group world champion in triathlon. Professor McGawley engages in a science centered conversation around the protected women’s category in sport and explanation and implications of athletes with DSD.  

We t...
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EP. 60: Paris Olympics Swimming Review w/Coach Chris Morgan

August 19, 2024 • 76 mins
A conversation with coach Chris Morgan, a former varsity swim coach with Harvard and Stanford and Olympic swim coach. 

We talk about the big stories from the Paris Olympic games and some of the memorable swimming performance. Notable topics included:
  • Caleb Dressel's Paris performance vs. Tokyo.
  • Katie Ladecky's performance overall and rivalry/friendship with Ariarne Titmus.
  • Bobby Finke's breaking of Sun Yang's 1,500-meter world reco...
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EP. 59: AI and The Future of Training and Coaching w/Dirk Friel

August 5, 2024 • 62 mins
A conversation with Dirk Friel. He is a co-founder and Chief Evangelist of TrainingPeaks, a web-based training and coaching software company. He holds a bachelor’s from Colorado State University and a former professional cyclist. Dirk hosts the TrainingPeaks CoachCast, an endurance sports podcast highlighting the value of excellent coaching and effective training. He and the guests explore topics ranging from advancements in the sc...
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EP. 58: Adiposity, Health, GLP-1, Nutrition and Exercise w/Tanya Halliday, PhD, RD

June 28, 2024 • 66 mins
Tanya Halliday, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on appetite and food-intake regulation in response to lifestyle interventions such as dietary restriction and exercise. Currently, she is investigating how type of exercise (e.g., aerobic vs resistance) influences hormonal and behavior indices of appetite regulation, and mechanis...
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EP. 57: Ultra-Marathon Swimmer Sarah Thomas

February 9, 2024 • 63 mins
Sarah Thomas an American ultra-marathon swimmer. Amidst a cancer diagnosis she is the first person to complete four consecutive crossings of the English Channel and the first person to swim a current-neutral swim over 100 miles. She holds the world record for longest, second-, and third-longest current-neutral swims, and various other records in both fresh and saltwater categories.


  • We have a conversation about Sarah’s origin st...
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EP. 56: A Marathoner’s Journey w/Running Influencer and Coach Elizabeth Clor

January 10, 2024 • 66 mins
Elizabeth Clor is an endurance athlete, McMillan certified coach and contributor to the popular running blog Racing Stripes. She runs competitively at all distances from the 5K to the marathon. She made the transition from recreational runner to high performance runner and documents her experiences in her book Boston Bound, a 7-Year Journey to Overcome Mental Barriers and Qualify for the Boston Marathon. She graduated from the Univ...
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EP. 55: Super Shoes, Marathon Record Performances and Training Strategies w/Andrew Jones, PhD

November 20, 2023 • 72 mins
Andrew M Jones PhD DSc is Professor of Applied Physiology in the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter. He’s internationally recognized for his research in the control of, and limitations to, skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism; causes of exercise intolerance in health and disease; respiratory physiology, particularly the kinetics of pulmonary gas exchange and ventilation during and following exercise...
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EP. 54: Sugar Does Not Feed Cancer w/Nichole Andrews, RDN

October 6, 2023 • 47 mins
Nichole Andrews, RDN graduated from Washington State University she has a Bachelor of Science in Food Science & Human Nutrition Dietetics. She is a Registered Dietician and known as “The Oncology Dietitian.” She’s the author of the best-selling book, Sugar Does Not Feed Cancer. Nichole is considered one the most influential cancer dietitians’ specialists internationally. She’s been a practicing cancer dietitian and nutritionist...
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EP. 53: The Fate of Modern Pentathlon w/Coach Kate Allenby

August 29, 2023 • 59 mins
Kate Allenby is a former British modern pentathlete, she won bronze for Team GB at the Sydney Olympics. She represents Pentathlon United an independent athlete representative body, representing thousands of pentathletes worldwide. Kate stands in opposition to the decision to only test OCR [obstacle course racing] and not any of the other apparent 60 options they considered in the teeth of an impending decision by the IOC to decide ...
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EP. 52: A Conversation with IRONMAN legend Mark Allen

July 31, 2023 • 69 mins
Mark Allen is a 6-time winner of the Ironman Hawaii (joint men's record) he had 5 consecutive victories in Hawaii (an overall record). ESPN named him the greatest endurance athlete of all time. Over the course of his racing career, which ended in 1996, he maintained a 90% average in top-three finishes. He was named Triathlete of the Year six times by Triathlete magazine, and in 1997 Outside magazine dubbed him The World's Fittest M...
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EP. 51: Best of The Endurance Experience Podcast Vol. 5

May 26, 2023 • 102 mins
Taking a look back at clips from 5 of the most downloaded episodes in Season 5 with updated commentary.

8:18: Matt Fitzgerald, – The Racing Weight Question | @mattfitwriter| Full Podcast https://bit.ly/3qcgScE

23:43: Carol Irwin, Phd – Factors Impacting Swimming Participation and Competence | @usaswimming | Full Podcast https://bit.ly/3MDUalf

48:34: Graham Stuart, MSc – The Endurance Enthusiast’s Heart | @ag_stuart| Full Podcast https...
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EP. 50: Hypnotism for Athlete Performance/Mike Mandel & Chris Thompson

February 24, 2023 • 54 mins
Mike Mandel has been a professional hypnotist since 1975. He’s traveled the world doing thousands of hypnosis shows. He’s a forensic hypnotist who worked with the police on major crimes. These days he loves teaching hypnosis in our Toronto classroom, conferences around the world and especially online at the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy.

Chris Thompson got hooked on this stuff by watching Mike perform hypnosis at his University. He e...
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EP. 49: Coaching the Endurance Athlete/Dr. Susan Sotir, PhD

December 23, 2022 • 75 mins
Susan Sotir, PhD coaches with Breakthrough Performance Coaching, she has a PhD in Sport Physiology and Exercise Psychology and is an assistant professor at Springfield College. Susan brings over 25 years of experience in sport coaching. She has worked with endurance athletes of all levels from recreation to competitive to professional athletes. She is a Level III triathlon coach with USA triathlon. Susan was a DIII swimmer at Tufts...
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