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Hosted by Mark Vega · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 42 episodes
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Run Long After 60 is a podcast about durability, curiosity, and continuing to do hard things as the years stack up. Hosted by Mark Vega , the show features long-form conversations with runners, endurance athletes, coaches, creatives, and professionals who are still showing up — often well past the age when society expects people to slow down. This is not a podcast about speed, podiums, or shortcuts. It’s about adaptation. Perspective. And learning how to keep moving forward — physically, mentally, and creatively — over the long arc of a life. Episodes are often recorded in motion, including running intros captured mid-workout, because this show isn’t about talking around endurance. It’s about living it. Conversations explore training, aging, setbacks, reinvention, discipline, failure, resilience, and the quiet decisions that allow people to keep going long after others have stopped. R
Mark Vega hosts Run Long After 60, a health show with 42 episodes published.
The race has been held seven times. John Clarke started all seven. John Clarke finished all seven. Nobody else has ever done that, and nobody else ever will. It isn't a record waiting to be broken — it's closed. To match
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Lori Balue — a 63-year-old functional health practitioner from Southern California who was 225 pounds at 40, asthmatic, pre-diabetic, and on an inhaler a doctor told
You pay your entry fee. You drive to a cornfield in Bryant, Georgia, and you park your car. You get on a tour bus. Nobody tells you where the bus is going. That's how the Last Annual Heart of the South begins. Somewhere
Ann Trason is widely considered the greatest female ultrarunner of all time — 14 Western States wins, 20 world records, a career that rewrote what was possible. But this episode isn't about any of that. It's about who An
It didn't take more than half a second to say yes. Paul James Johnson had just finished telling Mark about his fourth Cocodona 250 finish — four belt buckles, a thousand miles at that distance — and right there, mid-inte
There are fewer than 40 people on earth who have finished 100 or more races at the 100-mile distance or longer. Bobby Keogh is one of them. He has 108 official hundred-mile finishes — closer to 140 when you factor in his
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Mark Werkmeister — a 65-year-old ultrarunner from New Mexico who retired at 53 after a 25-year career as an engineer at Intel, started running ultras in his late 40s,
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Keith Allison — a 61-year-old runner from British Columbia who had never run a 200-mile race before this year. His first attempt was the Cocodona 250. He finished in
He's been running since he was 15. He's never had a major injury. At 60, he just went out and ran 30 miles for the first time — and felt fine. Dave Perry found his audience six months ago when his daughters told him to s
Run Streaker Series – Episode 2 In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with two brothers — Chris Nicolaides (66) and Michael Nicolaides (63) — who have each run at least one mile every single day for over ten y
This one is personal. For the first half of this episode, I'm sitting down with my running coach, Henry Howard — deputy media director of the American Legion, RRCA-certified coach, the creator of RunSpirited, and a five-
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Taylor Nichols — a West Hollywood, Los Angeles actor and bicycle advocate who has been fighting for safer streets for over 15 years, and who hasn't stopped riding sin
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Jenny Hitchings — a 62-year-old elite masters runner and coach from Sacramento, California, who didn't discover she was competitive until her late 30s. What followed
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Jenny Hitchings — a 62-year-old elite masters runner and coach from Sacramento, California, who didn't discover she was competitive until her late 30s. What followed
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Ray Mena — a 70-year-old athlete from Long Beach, California, who started running at 45 and never stopped pushing. Ray's story is one of the most layered I've heard.
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I speak with ultrarunner Gail Leedy — a 72-year-old trail runner who has spent decades in endurance sports, completing more than 100 races and continuing to show up year after year.
Lion Caldwell has been running ultramarathons since the early days of the sport — and at 74, he’s still chasing 100 miles. His career stretches back to the late 1970s. No GPS. No super shoes. Just effort, instinct, and a
Run Streaker Series – Episode 1 In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I speak with ultrarunner Tim Hardy — a runner who has maintained an 18-year run streak while also completing more than 130 ultramarathons , including
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I speak with Leslie Cohen — Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney, Abbott World Marathon Majors competitor, Age Group Champion and one of the most remarkable masters marathoners I’ve met —
In this episode of Run Long After 60, I speak with Kevin Fleeger — a 2x Cocodona 250 finisher and one of the most deliberate athletes I’ve met — about what it means to get smarter with age. Kevin didn’t begin ultrarunnin
Dave Perry
Digital Workspace Operations Manager · St. Joseph’s Healthcare
1 appearance on this show
Taylor Nichols
emergency physician, addiction medicine specialist, healthcare policy advocate · Chicken N Pickle
1 appearance on this show
Keith Allison
British Columbia
1 appearance on this show
Leslie Cohen
Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney
1 appearance on this show
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