My First Marathon
by My First Marathon
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- 🇺🇸US · Fitness#1345K to 30K
- 🇿🇦ZA · Fitness#2610K to 30K
- 🇰🇪KE · Fitness#603K to 10K
- 🇦🇹AT · Fitness#143500 to 3K
- 🇸🇬SG · Fitness#143500 to 3K
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5.7K to 23K🎙 Daily cadence·147 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
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19K to 76K🇺🇸39%🇿🇦39%🇰🇪13%+2 more - Active Followers
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5.7K to 23K
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From 23 epsHosts
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140: It's Our Duty to Give Back: Ainsley's Angels and Finding Community w/ Hunter Pardue
Aug 31, 2026
1h 02m 09s
139: A Joyful First Marathon: Running Chicago w/ Sierra Wehrenberg
Aug 24, 2026
45m 31s
31: Survival Guide To Running Your First Marathon (Mini Episode)
Aug 19, 2026
8m 52s
138: "Fail Forward": Finding Strength Through a Marathon Gone Wrong w/ Barry Scruggs
Aug 17, 2026
57m 34s
137: Watching Someone Else's Finish Line: How a Stranger's Marathon Story Became Her Own w/ Abia Mallick
Aug 3, 2026
1h 01m 39s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/31/26 |  140: It's Our Duty to Give Back: Ainsley's Angels and Finding Community w/ Hunter Pardue | Hunter didn't set out to become a runner. He joined his high school's cross country team on a whim (mostly because his friends were doing it) and discovered he loved being part of a group more than he loved the actual running. That pull toward community followed him through college, a couple years teaching in Korea, and eventually back to North Carolina, where a local run club led him to Ainsley's Angels. Pushing other runners through races so they could cross the finish line changed how he saw the sport entirely, and it planted the seed for chasing a marathon of his own.Hunter went into the City of Oaks Marathon in Raleigh without a real time goal, just a plan to find the 4:30 pace group and stick with them for as long as he could. That plan hit a snag before he even reached the start line, but he pushed on regardless.. He leaned on that same pacer to get through the miles that followed, one mile at a time, and at the end of the day ended up a marathoner. Follow along with Hunter Pardue: @runhuntrunLearn more about Ainsley's Angels: https://ainsleysangels.org/Follow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - skool.com/myfirstmarathon | 1h 02m 09s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | 139: A Joyful First Marathon: Running Chicago w/ Sierra Wehrenberg | Sierra grew up in a running family and found her own love for the sport through a middle school team in Georgia. She ran through high school and rediscovered it years later during a hard stretch in college, but just as she was building back toward a half marathon, her body threw her a curveball.A case of long COVID sent her heart rate soaring to 175 just from walking, and running immediately had to take a back seat. It took her two years to feel like herself again, and by no means was that comeback easy. When she finally toed the line in Chicago, she went in with a mindset rooted in joy rather than performance, and it shaped everything about how her race day unfolded.Follow along with Sierra: @sierra.vonFollow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - https://www.skool.com/myfirstmarathon/about | 45m 31s | ||||||
| 8/19/26 | 31: Survival Guide To Running Your First Marathon (Mini Episode) | This one's for all my fall marathoners who are deep in training right now!! I'm pulling together my full survival guide for running your first marathon, five things I wish someone had told me before my own first one. We're talking fueling strategy (and why the back half of the race is where it really matters), why respecting your easy pace is about more than just your fitness, and why the bad runs in your training block might actually be the most useful ones you have. If you're in the thick of a block right now and need a little reset, this one's for you.Follow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - https://www.skool.com/myfirstmarathon/about | 8m 52s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 | 138: "Fail Forward": Finding Strength Through a Marathon Gone Wrong w/ Barry Scruggs | Barry Scruggs came to running with his wife after some health struggles when they decided to make change happen together. It started with a Spartan race , and that single decision opened the door to a running life neither of them expected, eventually pulling them into Charlotte's trail and ultra running community and setting Barry on the path toward his first marathon.By the time race day arrived, training wasn't the hard part. Days before the Charlotte Marathon, Barry was diagnosed with bronchitis that had turned into pneumonia, and both his doctor and his wife told him not to race. He toed the line anyway, and what followed became one of the hardest tests he's ever faced on a course. Somewhere in the miles that came next, Barry learned what his body could actually carry him through when his mind wanted to quit, a lesson he still leans on today.Follow along with Barry Scruggs and his run club on Instagram: @[email protected] along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - https://www.skool.com/myfirstmarathon/about | 57m 34s | ||||||
| 8/3/26 | 137: Watching Someone Else's Finish Line: How a Stranger's Marathon Story Became Her Own w/ Abia Mallick | Abia Mallick never planned to run a marathon herself until she volunteered at the finish zone of the New York City Marathon, where a woman stopped by the fence near her to catch her breath and ended up sharing her story, a story that stuck with Abia so much she threw her own name into the marathon lottery, assuming she'd never get in.But spoiler alert: she did. Her training tested her more than she expected: her body kept finding new things to ache, and she leaned hard on her physical therapist and her community to get through it. Race day brought its own complications, and by the time she reached mile 26, what carried her through was the community of people that she's built around her. Follow along with Abia on Instagram: @abiamallickFollow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - https://www.skool.com/myfirstmarathon/about | 1h 01m 39s | ||||||
| 7/29/26 | 30: Why I Program Speed Work (Mini Episode) | I get this question all the time from my first-time marathoners: if I don't have a time goal, why do I need to do speed work? In this week's mini episode, I'm breaking down exactly why I still program speed work for athletes who aren't chasing a specific finish time, what it's actually teaching your body and mind, and how something as simple as picking up the pace at a colorful mailbox can prepare you for those brutal last six miles of your marathon.Follow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - https://www.skool.com/myfirstmarathon/about | 4m 46s | ||||||
| 7/27/26 | 135: "Anybody Could Do This": The Chicago Marathon, Take One w/ Sara Shimala | Sara played tennis all through high school, but running stayed casual for her, a mile here or there, until 2023, when she signed up for her first 5K and then got sidelined by a health complication for most of the year. By summer 2024 she was back on the trail outside Chicago, and after watching the para-athletes and half marathoners at a local race, she reached out to a charity for a Chicago Marathon bib almost on impulse. She texted her fiancé that she thought she'd just signed up for 26.2 miles. He wrote back, "You think?"But by no means was training easy for her. A flooded house sent her and her husband to live with his in-laws for nine weeks that August, running took a back seat to insurance calls and contractors, and her peak mileage never got close to where it needed to be. She made it to the start line anyways, but a chaotic corral search, the Chicago heat, and something that happened to her knee around mile seventeen turned the back half of that race into a fight she wasn't sure she'd win. What got her from that curb to the finish line is a story you're going to want to hear.Follow along with Sara on Instagram at @thatssosaaraa !Follow along with the show: 👣 Personal IG/TikTok: @tay.says / @taysays 🎙️ Podcast IG/TikTok: @myfirstmarathonpod 📺 YouTube: @MyFirstMarathonPodcast 🌐 Website & extras: myfirstmarathon.co & myfirstmarathon.co/resources Book a free 1:1 Coaching Call with me! - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=37408473&appointmentType=85354440 Join the First Marathoner Community! - skool.com/myfirstmarathon | 1h 00m 13s | ||||||
| 7/20/26 | marathon trainingovercoming obstacles+4 | Julie Satterthwaite | Parkinson's fundraising teamMy First Marathon | PhillyBroad Street+1 | marathonrunning+6 | — | 1h 01m 50s | ||
| 7/15/26 | returning to runningmental health+4 | — | My First MarathonFirst Marathoner Community | — | runningmental health+5 | — | 14m 03s | ||
| 7/13/26 | runningmarathon training+3 | Rachel Howard | BAR Run ClubMy First Marathon | COVID | marathonrunning+5 | — | 1h 03m 22s | ||
| 7/6/26 | marathon trainingrunning journey+3 | Gina Loschiavo | My First Marathon | Eugene MarathonDisneyland | Eugene Marathonrunning+5 | — | 46m 57s | ||
| 6/29/26 | marathon trainingpersonal journey+4 | Jude Harper | My First Marathon | MelbourneMCG | marathonrunning+7 | — | 53m 01s | ||
| 6/22/26 | runningmental health+4 | Mikaela Gomez | AFSP | — | runningultra marathon+5 | — | 1h 02m 12s | ||
| 6/15/26 | marathon trainingpersonal growth+3 | Maggie Lowenthal | — | Chicago | Chicago MarathonMaggie Lowenthal+3 | — | 46m 41s | ||
| 6/8/26 | marathon trainingpersonal growth+3 | Alyssa Newman | Planet FitnessSpace Coast+2 | — | marathontraining+5 | — | 1h 01m 13s | ||
| 6/1/26 | runningcommunity+4 | Keneshia Raymond | My First Marathon | — | runningcommunity+6 | — | 57m 57s | ||
| 5/26/26 | trail runningroad marathon+3 | Jon Hwang | San Francisco MarathonSpartan+2 | — | marathontrail running+5 | — | 1h 07m 09s | ||
| 5/20/26 | summer runninghydration+3 | — | My First Marathon | — | summer runninghydration+3 | — | 5m 01s | ||
| 5/18/26 | runningmarathon training+3 | Ashley Bree | Austin MarathonMy First Marathon | AustinTexas | marathonrunning+5 | — | 42m 46s | ||
| 5/11/26 | runningCrohn's disease+3 | Carly Schrom | My First Marathonmyfirstmarathon.co+1 | — | Carly SchromCrohn's disease+5 | — | 53m 34s | ||
| 5/6/26 | goal settingmarathon training+4 | — | — | Portugalheat wave+2 | marathontraining block+4 | — | 12m 25s | ||
| 5/4/26 | griefsobriety+3 | Jose Martinez | My First Marathonsarahmulder.com | Vancouver | runninggrief+5 | — | 1h 01m 00s | ||
| 4/27/26 | marathon trainingrunning journey+4 | Ariel Greenstein | My First Marathon | Chicago Marathon | marathonrunning+6 | — | 53m 32s | ||
| 4/20/26 | running journeymarathon training+4 | Gabby Averill | My First Marathon | Arizona | marathonrunning+5 | — | 48m 14s | ||
| 4/13/26 | marathon trainingchronic illness+3 | Ryan Trask | My First MarathonInstagram+4 | — | Houston Marathonrunning+3 | — | 57m 47s | ||
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Chart history for My First Marathon
Peaked at #26 in South Africa, currently #26 in South Africa.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| KE | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| United States | — | #134 | #134 | — |
| AT | — | #143 | #143 | — |
| SG | — | #143 | #143 | — |
Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.
Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.