Run Long After 60
Claim This Podcastby Mark Vega
Podcast Overview
<p><b>Run Long After 60</b> is a podcast about durability, curiosity, and continuing to do hard things as the years stack up.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by <b>Mark Vega</b>, 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.</p><p></p><p>This is not a podcast about speed, podiums, or shortcuts.</p><p><br />It’s about adaptation. Perspective. And learning how to keep moving forward — physically, mentally, and creatively — over the long arc of a life.</p><p></p><p>Episodes are often recorded in motion, including running intros captured mid-workout, because this show isn’t about talking <i>around</i> endurance. It’s about living it.</p><p></p><p>Conversations explore training, aging, setbacks, reinvention, discipline, failure, resilience, and the quiet decisions that allow people to keep going long after others have stopped.</p><p></p><p><i>Run Long After 60</i> is for anyone who believes that endurance doesn’t expire — it evolves.</p><p>🎙 New episodes weekly<br />📍 Hosted by Mark Vega</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 21, 2026
Episode 35 — Andy Jones-Wilkins (AJW) | 58 Years Old, Two New Hips, Zero Plans to Stop
<p>In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sat down with Andy Jones-Wilkins — known throughout the trail and ultrarunning world simply as AJW — for a conversation rooted in the history of ultrarunning, the growth of the sport, and what it really means to evolve with it.</p><p></p><p>AJW is a ten-time Western States finisher with seven top-ten finishes. He has written AJW's Taproom, a weekly column at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://iRunFar.com" target="_blank">iRunFar.com</a>, every Friday for 16 years. He hosts the Crack a Brew with AJW podcast. He spent 34 years as an educator before stepping away. He coaches senior-level athletes at CTS. And in 2023, at 57 years old, he had both hips replaced with ceramic implants — and went right back to running 3,000 miles a year.</p><p></p><p>But what makes AJW genuinely rare isn't the résumé. It's that after 30 years in and around this sport — as a competitor, a writer, a commentator, a coach, and a volunteer — he remains one of the few people willing to say out loud: I had a strong opinion, and I changed my mind.</p><p></p><p>In this conversation: </p><p>• How the Phoenix desert trail community in the mid-90s gave him his foundation — and why community has always mattered more to him than competition </p><p>• Western States at 53: the race as living history, what it looks like from inside the ropes and outside them, and why showing up for 26 years as a regular person has taught him more than racing ever did </p><p>• The DNF debate: 20 years of strong opinions on paper, and what finally shifted </p><p>• Both hips replaced at 57 — and the patience and acceptance that brought him back stronger </p><p>• What the runners who keep going into their 60s have in common </p><p>• Walking away from 34 years in education, managing a running store, and rebuilding a life around the things that matter </p><p>• The question a friend asked on a long training run in the Oakland hills — and why AJW's answer is exactly the same today as it was 20 years ago </p><p>• What running into his 60s actually looks like: not a comeback, not a slowdown — just the next chapter</p><p></p><p>This is a conversation about knowing when to hold your ground, knowing when to let go, and understanding that the wisest people in any community are usually the ones most willing to do both.</p><p></p><p>If you'd like to watch the full conversation, it's available now on the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel.</p><p></p><p>🎧 Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, or Amazon Music to follow the journey.</p><p></p><p>📍 Hosted by Mark Vega</p><p></p><p>#RunLongAfter60 #AndyJonesWilkins #AJW #WesternStates100 #Ultrarunning #TrailRunning #MastersRunning #Over60Running #CrackABrew #iRunFar #AJWsTaproom #UltraMarathon #RunningPodcast #RunnersOver60 #Longevity #RunningCoach #TrailRunningPodcast #UltraRunningCommunity #AgingAthletes #RunningLife</p>
June 20, 2026
Episode 34 - Ed Ettinghausen | The Mindshift Coach. First to 300 100-Mile Races. The Jester.
<p>In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Ed Ettinghausen — known throughout the ultrarunning world as The Jester — the first person in history to finish 300 races of 100 miles or more. He is the number one ranked 100-mile finisher in the United States and the world. He has 38 DNFs. And he will tell you exactly what he learned from every single one of them.</p><p></p><p>But Ed didn't come on this show to talk about his records. He came to talk about coaching.</p><p></p><p>For years, Ed has been quietly coaching runners — never charging a dollar, just giving his time because he loved it. Because helping someone cross a finish line gave him more satisfaction than crossing one himself. </p><p></p><p>That's changing. And this conversation is about what that transition looks like — from legendary competitor to the Mindshift Coach.</p><p></p><p>The name matters to him. A mindset, Ed will tell you, is static. A mind shift is movement. It's the act of going from neutral to first gear — from fear to logic, from doubt to forward. In this conversation, he walks through how he teaches that to runners who are 55, 60, 65, and 70, still showing up, still earning their place at the start line.</p><p></p><p>His coaching philosophy, in one line: your number one job isn't to finish the race. It's to survive — so you can run another day.</p><p></p><p>Find Ed on Instagram @runningwiththejester or at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:edettinghausen@msn.com" target="_blank">edettinghausen@msn.com</a></p><p></p><p>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 — stroke survivor, lawyer, US Army veteran, and ultrarunner. New episodes every Sunday.</p><p></p>
May 25, 2026
Episode 33 - Keith Allison | First Try. Cocodona 250 Record. 61 Years Old.
<p>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.</p><p></p><p>His first attempt was the Cocodona 250.</p><p></p><p>He finished in 99 hours, 29 minutes, and 57 seconds.</p><p>That time made him the first person in the 60–69 age group in the six-year history of Cocodona to break the 100-hour mark — out of 34 finishers across all six years who ever attempted it in that age group.</p><p></p><p>He did it on his first try.</p><p></p><p>But the finish time alone doesn't tell the story.</p><p></p><p>Keith paced runners at Cocodona in 2022 and 2024. He attended training camp on the course. He drove up in a camper weeks before the race to acclimate to altitude and heat. He ran segments of the course in training until they were no longer surprises. And the runners he paced in those earlier years came back and ran him across the finish line in Flagstaff.</p><p></p><p>This was years in the making. And he always knew it would be a one-time thing.</p><p></p><p>We talk about:</p><ul><li>Hating running as a kid — and not starting until his 40s</li><li>Qualifying for Boston on his second marathon ever</li><li>Running UTMB in 2022 and IMTUF 100 before setting his sights on 250 miles</li><li>Why he paced others at Cocodona first — and what he was really learning</li><li>Moving up in a camper to acclimate before the race even started</li><li>The dust that got into his lungs at mile one and never fully cleared</li><li>Three trail-side massages — a first for him — and why the crew insisted</li><li>The solo loop: 14 miles, no pacer, middle of the night</li><li>The lean that showed up in the final miles and what he did about it</li><li>Running the last stretch into Flagstaff with his entire crew beside him</li><li>Why he won't be returning to 200-mile racing — and what comes next</li></ul><p></p><p>Keith wasn't the only one making history that day.</p><p></p><p>Pam Reed — one of the most decorated ultrarunners in the sport's history — finished second in the age group at 69 years old, in 100:28:57. She and Keith now hold the two fastest times ever recorded in the 60–69 age group at Cocodona. Both set in the same race. Same year.</p><p>Paul James Johnson finished fifth all-time in the age group — and it was his fifth Cocodona finish. No one in this age group has done it more.</p><p></p><p>This episode is 2.5 hours long. Keith was on that course for 99.5 hours, and not a single segment deserved to be left out.</p><p></p><p>Run Long After 60 is a video-first podcast focused on running after 60, ultrarunning, longevity, and staying active later in life. If you'd like to watch the full conversation — including chapter markers for every segment of the course — you can find the video version on the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel.</p><p></p><p>🎧 Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, or Amazon Music to follow the journey.</p><p></p><p>📍 Hosted by Mark Vega</p>
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<p><b>Run Long After 60</b> is a podcast about durability, curiosity, and continuing to do hard things as the years stack up.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by <b>Mark Vega</b>, 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.</p><p></p><p>This is not a podcast about speed, podiums, or shortcuts.</p><p><br />It’s about adaptation. Perspective. And learning how to keep moving forward — physically, mentally, and creatively — over the long arc of a life.</p><p></p><p>Episodes are often recorded in motion, including running intros captured mid-workout, because this show isn’t about talking <i>around</i> endurance. It’s about living it.</p><p></p><p>Conversations explore training, aging, setbacks, reinvention, discipline, failure, resilience, and the quiet decisions that allow people to keep going long after others have stopped.</p><p></p><p><i>Run Long After 60</i> is for anyone who believes that endurance doesn’t expire — it evolves.</p><p>🎙 New episodes weekly<br />📍 Hosted by Mark Vega</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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