Erika Litzer's guest appearances

Erika Litzer

Creating Your Epic Life

Run Hard Mom Hard

Amy Clark

Julie Urbanski

Heidi Strickler

Katie Grossman

Amanda Basham

Sophie Power

Audrey Ross

Nikki Parnell

Allison Baca

Verna Volker

Jen Benna

Elisa Laverty

Jonnah Perkins

Emily Carlson

Andrea Larson

OwlTail

This week we talk with fellow Bendite, Erika Litzer, about being a collegiate swimmer, river guide, ski patroller, having major injuries, ultrarunning and the real and raw mom life. Her evolution to ultrarunning begins in the pool, swimming from when she was young and through a full ride athletic scholarship to Oregon State University. She has a difficult relationship with her swimming career largely because of how her education and life passions were affected by how much time and energy were consumed by swimming. She has a great way of putting into words what it was like to have so many people pulling at her to swim -- coaches, teammates, teachers, parents -- that it no longer felt like her choice to compete but a call to duty to keep going. By the time she graduated and swam in her last PAC-10 meet she was so burnt out that she got out of the pool and threw her cap and goggles in the trash. We move on to her life as a river guide and ski patroller, what those communities mean to her, and how she transitioned into ultrarunning after a shoulder injury. And of course, we get into some real life, raw motherhood ranting and talking from the trenches. Erika notes how she’s done all these things in her life (all the badass things I’ve written above) and yet parenting is hands down the hardest, most challenging and rewarding thing she’s done to date.  Enjoy!  Show Notes Erika’s Favorite Race: Elkhorn Crest 50k Fave meal: Turkey Trot meatballs and Marathon Lasagna from Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow cookbook  ---   Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/run-hard-mom-hard/message

This week we talk with fellow Bendite, Erika Litzer, about being a collegiate swimmer, river guide, ski patroller, having major injuries, ultrarunning and the real and raw mom life. Her evolution to ultrarunning begins in the pool, swimming from when she was young and through a full ride athletic scholarship to Oregon State University. She has a difficult relationship with her swimming career largely because of how her education and life passions were affected by how much time and energy were consumed by swimming. She has a great way of putting into words what it was like to have so many people pulling at her to swim -- coaches, teammates, teachers, parents -- that it no longer felt like her choice to compete but a call to duty to keep going. By the time she graduated and swam in her last PAC-10 meet she was so burnt out that she got out of the pool and threw her cap and goggles in the trash. We move on to her life as a river guide and ski patroller, what those communities mean to her, and how she transitioned into ultrarunning after a shoulder injury. And of course, we get into some real life, raw motherhood ranting and talking from the trenches. Erika notes how she’s done all these things in her life (all the badass things I’ve written above) and yet parenting is hands down the hardest, most challenging and rewarding thing she’s done to date.  Enjoy! Show Notes Erika’s Favorite Race: <a href="https://www.alpinerunning.co/elkhorn-crest" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Elkhorn Crest 50k</a> Fave meal: Turkey Trot meatballs and Marathon Lasagna from <a href="https://runfasteatslow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow cookbook</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/run-hard-mom-hard/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/run-hard-mom-hard/message</a>

20. Erika Litzer on Collegiate Swimming, River Guiding, Ski Patrolling and Ultrarunning