Today Carrie Millerller and I welcome 1/6 of the Berens children to the latest On Pace Podcast as On Pace Run Coaching, LLC client Maggie Berens who was our guest in the second week of this series is back along with her brother, Charlie Berens. I'll paraphrase the story as best I can: a few years back, Charlie and a buddy or two decided to throw on…

Welcome to another OnPace Podcast! Today, Carrie Miller and I sit with Brandon and Callie Meisner, owners of the wellness company MOVE Fitness Studio. MOVE had opened their doors in November of 2018 and over the next 18 months had built a community that hit the nail right on the head. Everything Brandon and Callie wanted to accomplish was happening…

Welcome to another edition of the OnPace Podcast! Tonight we welcome back John Mortimer of Millennium Running. When the Citizens Bank Shamrock Half and Relay was cancelled in mid March for their March 29 event, we were super bummed! On Pace stars Sara Carter and Avi Kelley were set to lead the team and they were set to have quite the killer crew as…

Welcome to On Pace's latest podcast with co-host Carrie Miller and our guests Jill Steffek and Mike Steffek. As you'll find out in the cast, these two roadrunners became lovebirds after being introduced in 2012. What started off as a potential coach-student relationship never really developed into that. Instead a couple years later it was husband-a…

Tonight we welcome Prevea Health's, Mike Lamere to On Pace's latest podcast. In the spirit of this week's hometown (to On Pace) race the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon! Beyond being an all around great guy, Mike brings with him a wealth of knowledge in the sport medicine world that is so fantastic for our community in Northeastern Wisconsin. His past i…

Tonight we welcome Rick Wilson from Blue Raven Productions: Wisconsin Race Management to our On Pace Podcast. Rick by day is the President of Pukall Lumber, one of the larger employers in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, but his passions lie in the energy of race day! What started over a decade ago by getting involved with forming Tortoise and The Hare…

When Carrie Miller and I first met Maggie Berens, she was a 19-year old sophomore at St. Norbert College. In a pre-OnPace life, Carrie and I both played college tennis and then for 16 years coached it and that's how we came to meet Maggie. Mags didn't say too much for those first couple days of tryouts, minding her P's and Q's and working her tail …

Tonight, we are pumped to bring out some SERIOUS Boston Strong on what would have been the day of the 124th running of the Boston Marathon. Among the runners on this podcast, there have been 24 Bostons - and would have been 28 by the time this airs had CoVid not reared its head! With Carrie Miller (9), Reggie Thomas (8), Stephanie Kliethermes (5) a…

Hello running community! The question has come up over and over in the last month - what can On Pace do to help bridge the gap between the "old" normal and the proverbial "new normal"? Well, we gave it a lot of thought. A LOT. And tonight, On Pace founder Carrie Miller provides the answer in an interview with Paul Miller. The answer lies the Happy …

Today we are soooo pumped to sit with John Mortimer from Millennium Running. In 1999 when John and his buddies were wet behind the ears and serious badass collegiate runners, they decided to embark on setting up the Millennium Mile to celebrate through running Y2K and the likely demise of the world. Well, the world didn't end and out of the lack of…

Happy 2020, On Pace!! What a blessed year we had in 2019 and what an awesome outlook we have for 2020! We are grateful for all the experiences, all the relationships and all the fun from this past year. Speaking of relationships from this past year, we'd like to introduce you to Catalina Costache. We met Catalina at Millenium Running's event the Ma…

WE'RE BACK! This week on the OnPace Podcast, we're catching up on the last few weeks of pacing action! Mandi Heidebrink Wilke talks about the Snowdrop Foundation WI, and how a group of pacers took on 24 straight hours of running to help raise money for pediatric cancer, including her daughter! For every mile a pacer ran, more money was donated to h…

At what intersection does a 40-branch bank and a pacing community meet? When the end goal is to make it about others and boils down to one word: Relationship. Meet Jeff Gahnz, marketing whiz at Green Bay-based Nicolet Bank, and an early adopted of supporting On Pace. When Jeff got a call asking if Nicolet would sponsor On Pace before the 2017 Wausa…

We're switching things up a little bit this week, as Mandi Wilke hosts episode 13 and chats with OnPacer and all-star sweeper, Esther Sherman! A sweeper is, as Esther describes it, someone who finishes last on purpose and with a purpose. Esther is famous for pacing with a pack that includes just about anything a runner might need to finish a marath…

Chicago native turned Northeast Wisconsinite Tim Kowols joins us this week for his first podcast. Tim has been with us since the beginning, debuting in OnPace's first event ever at the 2017 Cellcom Green Bay Marathon and never slowing down since. In fact, Tim may just be getting faster! Although well on his way to completing his first board (after …

Who runs their first marathon at age 54? And then who runs minimally one every month thereafter for what projects to be 50 months so he can cover all 50 states? The answer: Hershey, Pennsylvania man Anthony Fitzgibbons. Tony met Mandi Wilke and Carrie Miller at the Wausau Marathon Expo in mid August and they asked him if he'd ever run with a pace t…

We introduced you to her yesterday, but meet Lisa Loughran! We met Lisa in Cape Cod this year at the ZOOMA Women's Race Series where she was celebrating her 50th birthday with some girlfriends. Lisa's birthday was actually on the 1st (Happy Belated Birthday)! When Carrie Miller and Lisa first met, she had mentioned that she wanted to finish the rac…

In the wake of OnPace's fearless leader Carrie Miller dominating our Social Media Director Mandi Heidebrink Wilke by a final score of 7-4 on their way to the Bismarck Marathon in BISMARCK Trivia, we sat down with another Bismarck pacer and marathon legend Ken Fattmann. Fattmann - YES, DON'T TRY AND GET CUTE THAT'S HOW YOU SAY HIS NAME HE'S HAD IT H…

Welcome to our 8th podcast for OnPace! Carrie Miller and Mandi Heidebrink Wilke are known for their pacing prowess but today it is a battle of their brains as they train for the “Bismarck” part of the Bismarck Marathon. Top 10 questions you may never hear again about this killer part of the country we get to run around and through on Saturday! Spec…

On this seventh On Pace Podcast we sit with David Reich, a district judge in Bismarck, North Dakota who in 2014 started a local organization called RADD, which stands for Runners Against Destructive Decisions. Dave had seen the revolving door of an addicted lifestyle for years where the addiction ends in handcuffs. Following their arrest, the addic…

After an incredible weekend at ReThink Addiction by Dutrirun, Carrie and the ladies prepare to embark on Lake Delavan for the Zooma - Great Lakes Half Marathon for our second visit to this great race. The week after that, though, Carrie and I break up with her heading West as I tackle the Community First Fox Cities Marathon. Carrie and a small band…

Welcome to OnPace’s 5th podcast in our series leading up to Dutrirun's Rethink Addiction Run which will be held on Sept 7 in Oshkosh. I got to meet Scott J. Bartels through Carrie Miller because he hired OnPace Coaching to propel his running ambitions forward. But what about before his running ambitions brought us together? What was that Scott like…

WARNING: age appropriate content included on this podcast. We just don’t ever know someone’s story until we hear them tell it. Chris, like Senora P. Meyer, Tate Whitlinger, Juan De La Cruz and the rest of the Grateful Runners, all have a story. Their challenges and struggles are all so real to me, and they worked or are working their tails off to o…

When you have a loving husband, raise three healthy babies, a faithful upbringing that you’ve passed onto your kids, how does it feel when one loses the way? Do you turn your back? Do you even recognize he’s lost his way? On our third podcast we talk with Paula Meyer, a long time OnPacer, who has had just that happen with her son, Christopher. From…

Welcome back to our 2nd On Pace Podcast! We had an awesome response from the community to last week's post and this week's is in the same vein! In talking with Juan De La Cruz, I met a man who had a genuine smile on his face. Although he "hit rock bottom" three years ago and there was no smiles to be found, since then he has recovered to not only f…

Tate Whitlinger from Grateful Runners joins host, Paul Miller, on our first ever OnPace Race Podcast. We hear a bit about Tate's journey to overcome a multi-decade long battle with drug and alcohol addiction through the integration of running. As part of his healing process, Tate led the formation of Grateful Runners and now leads that chapter out …