Episode 84: Casey Corman on Chasing Big Goals and Training with a Quiet Mindset

Runners of The Bay

Casey Corman, road and trail runner, endurance cyclist, lover of Type II fun, and marketing professional, joins the podcast to talk about his athletic journey from coming in DFL at high school cross country meets to doing BIG training for the Napa Valley marathon.

Some highlights from our conversation:

🏃🏻‍♂️Doing workouts when things aren’t perfect

⏱Figuring out race goals when you’ve taken leaps since your last race

🔨Training aggressively so the marathon feels like just another training run

🦵Having compartment syndrome in both legs as a kid

🏁How a Ragnar race inspired him to take running more seriously

⏳How running helped him find a community outside of work

👟Learning a new running gait

💎Sharing Type II fun with his father

💯Doing a 100+ mile week during Des Linden’s Run Destober Challenger

🤫The power of being a “quiet minded” runner

You can follow Casey on Instagram @cormancasey and follow his training on Strava

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Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.

Mixing and editing by Brian Walters at Singletrack Sound.