Run Long After 60

About Run Long After 60

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. Run Long After 60 is for anyone who believes that endurance doesn’t expire — it evolves. 🎙 New episodes weekly 📍 Hosted by Mark Vega

Publisher

Mark Vega

Category

health & fitness · sports

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Jan 2026

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2026

   Episode 50 - David Miao | Started at 54, Won His First 100

   David Miao took up running at fifty-four, in Flushing, Queens, because he was putting on weight. He had never heard of a gel, a drop bag or a pacer. At his first marathon he picked a stranger who was aiming for three hours thirty-five and copied him exactly, stopping every time he stopped, even at water he didn't want. At the finish people kept telling him he killed it. He had no idea what they meant. His wife Karen came that day only to support him. It was the end of January and too cold to stand around for hours, so she ran the half marathon. She had never run a step. She hasn't stopped since. Less than two years later, in October 2020, David ran his first hundred-miler: ten loops of a ten-mile course in a Long Island forest, with no vest and no bottle. He won it outright. The next summer, at the Great New York 100, he ran in one-dollar socks while other runners laughed, and finished second in nineteen hours. He was the first member of his club, the Misty Mountain Runners, to run fifty miles and the first to run a hundred, he says, and the club has followed him to the start lines ever since. In 2022 he finished all four races of the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, after discovering three races in that he had never registered for the last one, Wasatch. He emailed until they let him in, five days before the start. In 2023 he ran Cocodona, 250 miles across Arizona, with Karen pacing the last sixty. Five miles from the finish he ran ahead to break ninety hours, crossed the line, and ran straight back up the trail to bring her in. That September they ran UTMB around Mont Blanc, and nine days later started Tor des Géants: 330 kilometers through Italy's Aosta Valley with about 24,000 meters of climbing. Karen had won a lottery spot and David hadn't, so he paid double for a charity bib to run it beside her. They finished one second apart. A Chinese gear brand, Kailas Fuga, took him on after that. This year, at sixty-one, he has run Cocodona again with Karen, UTMB, Tor des Géants for a third time and, in October, The Mammoth 200. He tells Mark about the aid-station captain at The Mammoth who threw him out after six hours of sleep, the half-hour nap near the end of UTMB that he says cost him the lead in his age group, running the Bay Area 100 in nothing but shorts, and why Karen made him carry six liters of water up a mountain. He also gives Mark his honest take on the big race companies, UTMB, Aravaipa and Destination Trail: what each does well, and where the aid-station food could be better. He doesn't go to a gym. He barely sweats, so he barely drinks. And he has a simple case for anyone over sixty: get on the trails, build your balance and your ankles, and keep running so you keep the muscles you use. This is David's first podcast ever. He had never told these stories on a mic before, and we're grateful he said yes. For the full video conversation, head to the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel and subscribe.

2. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Episode 49 - Jill Hudson | Chasing 100 Hundred-Milers at 64

   When this conversation was recorded, Jill Hudson had finished 97 races of 100 miles or more. She is 64. She plans to finish the last two back to back, over New Year's, at the same race where she ran her first. Jill is a retired Seattle school principal. Her dad got the family running in the late 1970s, and she ran her first marathon at seventeen. She came back to running in her forties, after her daughter was born, and found the Marathon Maniacs: a marathon a month, then two, then more. She never liked long training runs, so the races became her training. She says she ran marathons as a middle school principal and ultras as a high school principal, and that the stress of the second job had something to do with it. Her first hundred was a 48-hour race at Across the Years in Arizona, New Year's 2011 into 2012. She finished with seven or eight blisters, went into a tent, and cried so hard people came to check on her. Then she went back out and walked extra laps for fun. Four years later she won the Across the Years 72-hour outright, men and women, with 204.7 miles. It took three tries. The year she finally got there, a six-day runner called her a rascal, and she added it to her mantra: I'm strong, I'm prepared, I'm a rascal who's got this. When young runners ask her for tips, she tells them the same two things: be positive, and have a mantra. Most of Jill's hundreds are fixed-time races. Runners loop a short course, often a mile or so, for a set time: 24 hours, 48, 72, six days. Whoever covers the most distance wins. Jill likes them because they're flat, social and fast, and because you see your friends every lap. She also tells Mark about the time she went off the flat stuff. She won a raffle entry into Western States, trained for months, and reached mile 90 before she timed out. That night a friend gave her a buckle he had made himself: a cat on its back with its legs in the air. It's one of the buckles she's proudest of. A few months later she ran her 100-mile PR, 23:08 at Hennepin. They talk about how her body has changed since 60: the gym she finally joined, the hand cramps that changed her fueling, decaf all year so caffeine still works at 3 AM. They talk about the races she started hosting when COVID shut everything down, which are small and cheap and known for pie. And she has advice for anyone close to 60 who thinks long running is behind them: find races with long cutoffs, walk when you need to, and find someone your pace to talk to. The plan for 99 and 100 is specific. Across the Years now offers a straight hundred-miler, so Jill will run the 48-hour starting December 28, rest a day, and start the 100 on the morning of New Year's Eve, when a lot of runners start so they can run through midnight. If it goes to plan, her hundredth hundred finishes on New Year's Day. For the full video conversation, head to the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel and subscribe.

3. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Episode 48 - Doug Lewis, 62 | Olympian, Ultrarunner, Beginner Again

   Forty years after he raced down the Streif at Kitzbuhel, Doug Lewis went back and ran up it. In August 2026, at sixty-two years old, Doug started the KAT100 by UTMB in Austria - nearly ninety-nine miles through the Kitzbuhel Alps with something close to twenty-eight thousand feet of climbing. A thunderstorm broke over the six o'clock start and the rain ran on for five hours into the night. Fifty-eight miles in, the course sent him up the Hahnenkamm, the mountain he had raced down in a speed suit as a twenty-two-year-old on the US Ski Team. He finished in a little over twenty-nine hours, twenty-third overall, and won the men's sixty to sixty-four category by more than thirteen hours. He is a two-time Olympian in the alpine downhill - Sarajevo in 1984, Calgary in 1988 - and at the 1985 World Championships in Bormio he became the first American man ever to win a World Championship medal in a speed event. He took two national downhill titles after that. He was five foot eight and a hundred and seventy-five pounds in a sport that rewards size, and he made the Streif, the most dangerous downhill in the world, work for him anyway. Then he retired at twenty-five and, in his own words, lost his identity. He went from Sports Illustrated to sitting in the back of an introductory economics class as a twenty-six-year-old freshman. What pulled him out was an offer to coach a group of ten- and eleven-year-olds, and that turned into ELITEAM, the conditioning camp he and his wife Kelley have run for thirty-five years. Two hundred and fifty burpees a day. Lights out at nine. As a ski racer he hated running. The team ran a two-mile fitness test every year and he scraped under the twelve-minute limit every year. Somewhere after he stopped racing, that turned into a question about how far he could go, and the answer has so far been nine hundred-mile finishes and no DNFs. Doug is the first person who ever found this show on his own and asked to be on it, and this conversation is the one he came for. He talks about going into the dark hole seven or nine or eleven times in a single race and the tools he uses to climb back out. He talks about winning the first Spartan Death Race in 2007 with a peanut butter sandwich and a knife in his pack, and having dinner beforehand with an unknown man named David Goggins. He talks about the night in Italy when he could not stand up straight for the last fifteen miles, and what Kelley said to him afterwards that changed how he saw it. He talks about being frightened - and about the one place he refused to let fear come with him. There is a quieter thread underneath it too. At sixty-two he has noticed his mobility going, and he is honest about not knowing whether that is age or neglect. He had a full blood workup and a cardiac scan this year because Kelley told him to, and he spends a few minutes asking everyone listening to do the same. He is sixty-two. He is looking for his tenth hundred-miler - around seventeen thousand feet of climbing, runnable, somewhere beautiful enough to stop and feel lucky - and he would like your suggestions. For the full video conversation, head to the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel and subscribe.

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