Olympic Track & Field Recap with Brad Cordts

Beards and Dun are back together this week for a bit of an update episode. Beards gives an update on what's been going on with his knee [content warning, squeamish listeners beware], and Dun talks about his return to the running game as a volunteer coach for Mars Hill University along with some anecdotes about his and Beards' training and coaching at SDSU.

[We are sorry to say we experienced technical issues about 28 minutes into the episode, our apologies for the audio quality from that point on] Dun flies solo again this week as Beards continues to deal with medical issues, however Dun's college room-mate Randy Fischer is just the guy to fill Beards' shoes. Randy was a state champion track runner in high school, an All-American in college, running varsity all for years at SDSU and was on two national cross-country runner-up teams. Randy ran for the Nike shoe company and went on to run 54 marathons with two sub 2:20 and 30 sub 2:30 times. He has won 7 marathons and still holds the course record at the Brookings Marathon having ran it 5 times in total. Randy is a "shoe in" if South Dakota ever creates a Hall Of Fame for distance runners and coaches.

This week on the podcast Dun is joined by guest host Brad Cordts to discuss the Olympic Track & Field events while Beards takes a short break to address some health concerns. Brad Cordts is an SDSU alumni running track with Rod Dehaven, has 30 marathons under his belt including 19 consecutive Boston Marathons, and has attended 10 Olympic Trials, 3 Olympic Games, and 2 World Championships. Who better to discuss the 2024 Olympic Track & Field results with!?

Beards and Dun sit down this week with Scott Keenan, who for 37 years starting in 1977 was the race director for the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth Minnesota. Both Beards and Dun are past competitors of the marathon with Beards holding the course record for 33 years! They discuss the history of the race from its founding and how its evolved over the years, as well as sharing stories of their own experience with the race.

Beards and Dun get together again to continue their training series, this week they discuss interval training. Interval training has been a proven training method to increase cardiovascular endurance and Beards and Dun use their knowledge to break down what it is and how to utilize it as well as sharing stories of their own experiences with interval training.

Beards and Dun are back after a short summer hiatus. This week Beards and Dun kick off a multi-part series of training advice. Starting the series off with the long run. They get to the heart of the importance of long distance training and they both share stories and insights from their own personal experiences.

With Beards heading to the Grandma's Marathon this week to provide commentary for the race he and Dun review Beards' rise from the 1980 Olympic Trials, New York, Houston, Beppu, and London Marathons to his 33 year held course record at Grandma's Marathon in 1981.

On this week's episode Beards and Dun sit down with the one and only Patti Catalano Dillon. She once held the American records for the 8K, 15K, 10 mile, 20k, 30K 1/2 marathon and marathon (first American women to break 2:30) and the world records for the road 20k, 30k and 1/2 marathon. She ran 48 races in 52 weeks and won 44 of the races! She also won the Honolulu marathon 4 times, finished 2nd at the Boston Marathon 3 times, won the Newport Marathon 5 times (each in a new course record) and signed a pro contract with Nike in 1980. She was undoubtedly the "Queen of the Road".

This week Beards and Dun get the privilege to sit down and talk with the great Greg Meyer. Greg once held every American Road Racing record for the 8K, 10K, 15K, 10 mile, 20K, 25K, 30K and held the world record for the 10 mile and 25K. He is the winner of both the Chicago Marathon and the Boston Marathon. Greg is also the first runner to ever run both a sub 4 minute mile AND a sub 2:10 marathon.

This week on the podcast Beards and Dun revisit Dun's transition from running to cycling in the early 90's. From 24hr race events to endurance events such as RAAM (Race Across America), RAW (Race Across The West), the Hell And Back double crossing of South Dakota, and everything in-between, over the past 33 years Dun has cycled 226,266 miles (just shy of the 238,900 miles from the Earth to the Moon) in 5,291 rides, averaging 24.8 miles per ride!