Women's Running Stories

This episode features runner, wife, mom, and entrepreneur Dena Lewis: her story centers around how traumatic experiences she experienced while running have fueled her to discover new purpose in life.

This episode features Maddie Barrett, a runner, coach, and mom. Here she tells the story of navigating events that were not in her plans: recently, Maddie underwent and has recovered from a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. She is now back to running and training, and she’s learned a lot through this journey, including that she’s stronger than she previously believed.

This episode features Tammie Robie, 51, a mom, a schoolteacher, and someone who has been passionate about running and competing since she was a teenager. Tammie has had moments of greatness in her running life, but also long periods of painfully debilitating and frightening health difficulties—difficulties that were misdiagnosed for decades. Until one fateful day in 2023, when that all changed.

This special episode features a conversation with Verna NezBegay Volker, founder and Executive Director of Native Women Run. Based in Minnesota, Verna is an ultra runner, leader, and community builder. We sat down to talk about how running is political, and always has been.

This episode features Anjali Saraogi, an ultra and distance runner who lives in Kolkata, India. This is Anjali’s second appearance on Women’s Running Stories, and that story focused on her experiences at South Africa's 90k/56-mile Comrades Marathon. This episode focuses the most recent chapter in Anjali’s running journey. Over the last several years, she has gone through debilitating health issues which eventually led to a hysterectomy. How this weaved into her running pursuits is what this episode is all about.