You can hear Angie Spencer talk about her running story and coaching philosophy with Jennifer Knectch host of the FSL Modern Podcast.
She answers questions about injury prevention, motivation and more. Click here to listen.
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Angie Made the Front Page of the Sunday Paper
Here’s a story about MTA that ran in our town’s newspaper last Sunday. Our thanks to reporter Leonna Heuring and The Sikeston Standard Democrat for featuring us (well, mostly Angie). If you’re interested in reading the story I have a pdf version of page one here and page two here. Open and scroll to bottom of page.
Merry Christmas from MTA
Trevor, Angie, Riley, Gavin, Liam
We hope you stay healthy this holiday season. Thanks for being a loyal blog reader. Warm wishes. -Trevor, Angie, and boys.
MTA Meet-up in Des Moines, Iowa
At the expo hanging out with some amazing people!
We just finished the Des Moines Marathon & Half Marathon in the great mid-western state of Iowa.
It was great to meet up with Academy members Coleen and Lee Stats, Kristi Benz, and Christine and Dan Savage both yesterday and today. Race recap will be coming! Continue Reading →
Streets of Gold 5K Virtual Race
Grant Brown 2006 – 2013
Grant is now running on Streets of Gold and a scholarship for New Covenant School in Arlington, Massachusetts (where he would have been a first-grader) has been established in his name.
The Grant Brown Scholarship is in place to help those students and their families who may be distracted by financial worry to focus more on learning, serving and building integrity.
Virtual 5k this Saturday Continue Reading →
Testimonial from Gregory Cheek
Greg Cheek is a motivational speaker, cancer survivor, and marathoner. He trained with us for his first full marathon a few years ago. We are so proud of his progress!
MTA Podcast Gets Mention in Huffington Post
You might remember that we were featured in a list of top health and fitness podcasts compiled by Greatist.com.
Now the story has been republished by huffingtonpost.com. Take a look.
Our thanks to the folks at Greatist and Huff Post for including our show along with these terrific podcasts!
MTA Podcast Featured on Greatist.com
Greatist.com rounded up the 19 Best Health and Fitness Podcasts of All Time and guess who made the list!
From the article . . .
“The best takeaway from this podcast is the mondo dose of can-do attitude; it’s a feeling that lingers long after the theme music stops singing that you’re “well on your way.”
What an honor to be mentioned along with Jillian Michaels, Rich Roll, Able James, Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield and other amazing podcasters.
Thank you @maritihart and the great team at Greatist.com!
Runner Sportsmanship
The recent display of greed at a Cincinnati road race shouldn’t indict all runners. We have our issues but good sportsmanship regularly prevails.
By Henry Howard
I was appalled to learn of the food looting perpetrated by some of the 15,000 runners in the recent Thanksgiving Day Race in Cincinnati. There seemed to be plenty of energy bars, fruit, drinks and other recovery fuel on hand.
But that wasn’t enough for some of the runners who readily ignored giving thanks for the day, and instead greedily filled their boxes with food. Not only did a local food bank not receive an influx of leftovers, many of the runners were left without snacks after the 10K race.
“There were people jumping in dumpsters to find bigger boxes,” race director Julie Isphording told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I couldn’t believe it. People brought bags of their own just so they could stuff them full.” Continue Reading →
Cyber Week Sale
We are offering 1 Year Academy Membership at a reduced rate during our cyber week sale. The sale ends Thursday at 11:59 pm.
Sign up for the reduced rate and let us handle your training for next year’s races. Join our awesome online community and let us help you take your fitness to the next level.
Click here to learn more.
MTA Mentioned by Marathon and Beyond Magazine
Angie and I recently had the privilege of meeting Jan Seely the co-director of the Illinois Marathon and co-owner of Marathon and Beyond Magazine.
We interviewed Jan on podcast episode 103. Marathon and Beyond is a bi-monthly magazine tailored specifically for marathoners and ultra runners. We were featured in their digital newsletter.
See photo Continue Reading →
Runner Academy Apologizes to MTA
You might have come here looking for the post “Runner Academy is Plagiarizing Our Content”. You can find it here.
Matt Johnson has offered the following apology.
I take responsibility for my actions. While I did not steal your content word for word I did structure it too similar. I modeled too much of what you did
and did add a substantial portion of my own spin to it. I could have done
better. Everyone deserves better. I let myself get too caught up in winning
and competition and I made some poor decisions. -Matt Johnson
While the evidence does show that Matt copied some of our content word for word, I am willing to accept this apology, and be done with this whole ordeal.
My hope is that we never have to deal with this again and can get back to helping people reach their running potential.
I appreciate all the support MTA has received over the last two days. You guys are awesome!
Happy Running,
Trevor
