A friend of mine, Joey Metzger, has jumped into the podcast game with Running Behind. On top of already making great YouTube videos about his running adventures, he decided to take things further and launched the Running Behind podcast about a month ago. There is now, three episodes out there now that are fantastic and after catching up with him a couple weekends go for a run, I can say the guest lineup is only getting better.

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Maybe selfishly, but the latest episode titled “Eric Walker | “The Streak”, Running For Fun & Digestible Numbers” (released just yesterday) will always stand out to me as the best by far because as you can tell Joey let me join him for a discussion about running. I had such a great time chatting with him, especially since, as you’ll hear, we hadn’t caught up in a long time. In fact, it was only about six months ago that we reconnected as we found each other on Strava (Joey’s Strava Profile) and then realized that we are both crazy runners. Though, to be fair, he might be the crazier one as he runs much longer distances and sticks almost entirely to trail races.

I won’t spoil too many details of our discussion because you should give it a listen. We talked about my running history, especially my 5K a day streak from 2018, but with Joey being the great host he is, he managed to dig out new stories and other takes on running.

I really do appreciate that Joey let me join his show and I hope he still has listeners for your next episode after this past one.