Warm conversations from inside the running world.
C Tolle Run is a conversational running show built around athletes, race winners, a coach, and dietitians. The tone is warm and kinetic, moving from marathon splits and race tactics to family life, food prep, gratitude, and the harder emotions behind performance.
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C Tolle Run is a running interview show with the pace of a catch-up between people who know the sport well. Olympian Keri Tollefson speaks with runners, Olympians, ultrarunners, race champions, a coach, and registered dietitians, usually starting from a recent race, milestone, or life transition. The conversations are enthusiastic and personal. They can also get reflective, especially when an athlete is explaining what changed after a breakthrough, a move up in distance, or a season away from the track. Recent episodes follow Dom Scott through marathon experience, half-marathon form, and life beyond the track. Randi Zuckerberg brings another kind of endurance story, connecting ultrarunning, family, business, Broadway, and the Baja Sur Traverse. Zouhair Talbi’s episode leans into momentum: Houston, Boston preparation, New York, family, and racing in the red, white, and blue. The NYC Half winners episode shifts into race-weekend energy, with post-race interviews, strategy, celebrations, gear, and the spectacle of running through New York. Julia Paternain’s conversation captures the disorienting force of a World Championships bronze for Uruguay, including the pain, uncertainty, and focus of the closing miles. Nutrition also has a real place in the show. Jillian Tholen and Alex Larson talk fueling in a practical way, starting with breakfast and moving through timing, food prep, changing needs, race prep, motherhood, and training. The show is strongest when elite achievement and ordinary routine sit side by side. A national title can share space with cereal. A course record can lead into family life. A training center’s closing can become a story about friendship, gratitude, and a quarter century of impact. C Tolle Run does not treat running as only splits and medals, though those details matter. It treats the sport as a community with memory, ambition, humor, and a lot of logistics. The result is welcoming without being shallow, expert without turning technical for its own sake. It fits runners who follow road racing, track, cross-country, marathons, ultrarunning, and performance nutrition. It especially rewards listeners who like hearing athletes explain how a result actually felt from inside the race.
Made for: C Tolle Run is for runners, endurance athletes, race fans, and fitness-minded listeners who care about both performance and the people behind it. It especially suits anyone following marathons, road racing, cross-country, ultrarunning, and practical sports nutrition.
What sets it apart: The show combines running access with a relaxed, personal interview style. Big performances are discussed alongside breakfast, parenting, training camps, friendship, gratitude, and life after the finish line.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Tokyo bronze becomes a quiet study in racing by feel before the result is fully known.
Julia Paternine's bronze medal at the World Championships gives the episode its obvious entry point, but the stronger subject is how she kept running while the meaning of the race was still forming around her.
A candid running conversation about parenting, friendship, commentary work, and carrying hope forward.
Courtney's conversation with Keri Tullison moves easily through the push and pull of running-adjacent life: saying yes to commentary work, imagining a women's trip to Italy, and learning when to stay quiet while kids compete.
A warm, practical episode on making endurance fueling fit around training, family routines, and real life.
Fueling is the center of this Sea Tally Run episode, as Keri Tullifson talks with registered dietitians Jillian Tholen and Alex Larson about what to eat, when to eat, recovery, food prep, race prep, and the way nutrition needs can change across life stages.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Olympian Carrie Tollefson hosts registered dietitians Jillian Tholen and Alex Larson, both endurance athletes and moms.
Interview with 2024 Olympian Calli Hauger-Thackery about her running career, including her marathon achievements and balancing life with her husband.
Olympian Keri Tullison interviews ultra marathon legend Courtney Dauwalter live before the Twin Cities Marathon, discussing her running career and race preparation.
Olympian Keri Tullifson interviews Pete and Zika Rea about the legacy and closure of ZAP Endurance, a nonprofit training center that supported runners for 25 years.
Olympian Carrie Tollefson interviews fellow Olympian Courtney Babcock about her new business, The Sports Specialist, a platform connecting athletes with vetted experts.
Elena Hayday, 26, joins Carrie Tollefson ahead of the Chicago Marathon after a 13th-place Boston finish and second at the USATF 20K.
Olympian Keri Tullifson interviews two-time Olympian and five-time NCAA champion Dom Scott about her running career, recent half marathon performance, and life off the track.
Olympian Keri Tullipson interviews Randi Zuckerberg about her ultra running achievements, including a fastest known time on Mexico's Baja Sur Traverse and her upcoming Cocodona 250 race.
Olympian Keri Tullifson interviews Moroccan-American marathoner Zouhair Talbi about his recent wins and preparation for the Boston Marathon.
Olympian Keri Tollefson interviews the four winners of the 2026 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon about their race strategies and experiences.
C Tolle Run interviews Julia Paternain, Uruguay’s first World Championship medalist, about her bronze medal in Tokyo and the 2:27:09 national record she ran in her debut marathon.
Charles Hicks explains why he left Stanford in 2023 for professional road racing and a 2:09 marathon debut.
Two registered dietitians and endurance athletes discuss fueling strategies, food prep, and adapting nutrition across life stages.
Cole Hawker explains how sprint training from middle school through college helped him develop the changing gears required for tactical 1500-meter races and Olympic finals.
Olympian Keri Tullifson interviews Parker Wolfe about his preparation for the World Cross-Country Championships and his career as a professional runner.