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About this episode

Eric Jenkins joins Aisha to discuss the Guardian Mile, community races, fitness tests, and various sports-related topics.

Eric Jenkins calls in from a Cleveland Airbnb a few hours before the Guardian Mile, mic clipped to a Celsius can, surrounded by friends. Aisha is home in Boulder. It's a Saturday edition. In this episode: – Guardian Mile tonight: Colby is running the stroller mile with his son. Colby is not quite at race weight and is racing on a course that goes uphill for the first 800 and downhill on the back half. – Community road miles: There should be more of them everywhere. One mile is the perfect community race distance — not intimidating, done in 30 minutes, everyone has a frame of reference. – Presidential Fitness Test: Created 1956 under Eisenhower. Obama softened it into a non-competitive program in 2013. RFK is now restoring it. – Sir Walter Mile results – Host family philosophy debate: Eric's one bad experience: divorced man, post-dinner guitar serenading, Beach to Beacon 10K, never again. Aisha has had uniformly excellent host family experiences and is still friends with most of them. – Tour de France Femmes — bra-maxing/aero-fairing scandal: Riders allegedly stuffing sports bras to create a larger chest profile in the aero tuck position, which is aerodynamically advantageous…

People in this episode

Host: Aisha

Guest: Eric Jenkins

Topics covered

• running events
• community races
• fitness tests
• host family experiences
• scandals in sports
• athlete content

Keywords

• Guardian Mile
• community road miles
• Presidential Fitness Test
• Tour de France Femmes
• Will Geoghegan
• host family experiences
• running
• sports scandals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CITIUS MAG

Places: Cleveland, Boulder, Eugene

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