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E38 | Airplane Arms & Wild Strides with Grayson Murphy

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Trail running deserves an Olympic event to showcase a completely different skill set than track or road.

Grayson Murphy is the guest. The Hobby Jogger introduces her as Racing Grayson, a Saucony pro, five-time U.S. champion, two-time world champion, and the founder of Wild Strides Paper Co., then settles into the kind of loose, friendly banter that fits the show's running-club feel. The conversation stays practical. The hosts keep asking what a season looks like as it shifts from elite road and track work toward a first marathon, and Murphy answers in the same easy, self-aware way the show likes to use. The middle turns to drugs. That stretch opens into a long conversation about the sport's cat-and-mouse game and how athletes and anti-doping efforts keep adjusting to each other, with the hosts staying curious instead of preachy. Then it gets concrete. Murphy lays out the races she will use as rust busters, starting with Gate River 15K and Cherry Blossom 10 Mile, and explains how the schedule sets up her marathon debut in May. She does not name the marathon. Instead, she talks about being sick for a long stretch last year, getting perspective from that, and realizing she would be disappointed if she never gave the distance a real try. That lands plainly. She says she started out as a road runner, so the move back toward the roads feels less like a leap and more like something that was waiting for the right season to show up. The episode keeps its club-run feel. The hosts bounce between race talk, gear jokes, and a few side comments about how runners keep finding odd little ways to measure progress, which keeps the interview warm even when the topics get technical. Murphy stays game for all of it. She gives the kind of grounded answers that make an elite athlete sound less like a headline and more like someone sorting through mileage, recovery, and what comes next one week at a time. The company side is there too. By the end, listeners hear where to find her on Instagram at racing__grayson and where to look for Wild Strides Paper Co. at wildstridespaper.com, so the conversation leaves with both the athlete and the maker still in view. The sign-off is simple. The hosts thank her, point listeners toward the show, and send everyone off with the usual reminder to keep those feet moving and enjoy the miles.

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A loose, honest race chat that turns elite ambition into everyday runner questions.

Grayson Murphy's appearance on The Hobby Jogger keeps its attention on the practical side of racing: what the season looks like, what her body is dealing with, and how a career changes as a first marathon gets closer.

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Grayson Murphy talks first marathon, road-race tuneups, and the perspective she gained after being sick.

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