In this episode, we sit down with Bjorn Anderson, founder of RunWise, a new platform built to help runners train smarter and stay healthy. A lifelong student of endurance sport, Bjorn has become increasingly focused on one question: why do so many runners get hurt while trying to get better?

Drawing from coaching insight, training data, and the lived experience of thousands of runners, Bjorn explains how small daily decisions—mileage, recovery, intensity, and life stress—combine to shape injury risk. His answer is RunWise: a system designed to evaluate a runner’s training day by day, offering a simple red, yellow, green risk assessment that helps athletes avoid the mistakes that derail seasons.

We talk about marathon training, the unique challenges facing masters runners, and the philosophy behind sustainable performance. If you care about running longer, healthier, and wiser, this conversation will change the way you think about training.

The Penn Relays is the biggest and most historical track and field meet in America and, founded in 1895, one of the longest-running sporting events in the country and the world. Every year over the last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in April, track fans from across the country and around the world descend on Philadelphia to witness some of the best sprinters, jumpers, throwers, and distance runners compete in all manner of relay events. Athletes from grammar school to high school to college and beyond dream of stepping onto Franklin Field to take their place in the pantheon.

Learn more about this amazing tradition - https://pennrelays.com/

April 18, 2025. NEW YORK - Peter Walsh passed away today at 1pm Eastern time. He was a saloon keeper, a musician, a poet, an entrepreneur, an employer, a father, a husband and a friend. But mostly, he was joy wrapped up in a human-shaped package. He was known to us as a track fan and one of the owners of Coogan's Bar just up the street from The Armory. Here, we post the interview we did with him in 2020 just after Coogan's closed for good, an unfortunate victim of the COVID pandemic. Today we bid Peter a fond and tearful farewell and say we'll look forward to meeting him again on the other side of the track.