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At 79 years young, Dr. Betty Holston Smith has the fitness level of your average 30-year old and looks at least 20 years younger than she is!    Dr. Betty was previously a 200-pound couch potato who loved junk food and smoking. Dr. Betty shares more about how she transformed her life 50 years ago. This really is a master class told by a phenomenal story teller, who goes into the details.   During this podcast episode Dr. Betty shares more about her early life, how she got into running, how she changed her diet, how she trains, and how she copes on 4hrs of sleep a night. At 79 years young Dr. Betty is still running 60 to 100 miles per week!    If you want to learn the secrets of running, health and fitness, this is an episode not to be missed.   New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss out.    The tough girl podcast is sponsorship and ad free thanks to the monthly financial support of patrons. To find out more about supporting your favourite podcast and becoming a patron please check out www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast.   Show notes  Speaking to Dr. Betty Holston Smith Being a smoker and eating junk food Being 200lbs overweight Why she decided to lose weight Trying all of the crazy diets Being inspired by Dr. Mirkin  Why nutrition and movement is so important Advice for movement - Get outside 3x a week for 30 mins Why you need to strengthen your heart Why you need to eat, fruit, vegetables, whole foods, seeds and nuts What Dr. Betty eats on a daily basis Falling in love with running and how it became the core of her life Starting to feel the difference in her life Running ultra marathons and having no need for recovery The good things that have come from her lifestyle Being monitored by John Hopkins Hospital  Thriving on 4hrs of sleep a night Doing relationship based coaching The importance of respecting the body Stretching and doing Tai Chi for 40 years Growing up in virgin woods and falling in love with mother nature Growing up as 1 of 6 children Her favourite shoes - Vivo Barefoot Running marathons on 6 continents Running a half marathon (22 miles) on the Great Wall of China Running and teaching deep water running Setting up your body for running  The benefits of chia seeds The power of having good posture Lessons from Michael Jackson with his pelvis Needing a strong core to be any kind of runner Why you need to have relaxed shoulders Why running should be moving meditation Writing her book - Lifestyle by Nature: One Woman's Break from the Unhealthy Herd to Roam Forever Healthy in Nature's Lifestyle Change Herd Focusing on what you love and what you are passionate about Wanting to run for the rest of her life Passion and perseverance  Not caring about the finish line The process of changing a lifestyle Going to school during segregation The lifestyle change line On going challenges Running a 901 mile virtual race Looking for more virtual races Not being on social media What her week looks like    Social Media   Book - Lifestyle by Nature: One Woman's Break from the Unhealthy Herd to Roam Forever Healthy in Nature's Lifestyle Change Herd    More about the book:   How are you? If your truest first thoughts in pondering this question are something like "I could be better," this nature-based lifestyle-change book might help. To be healthy, you must take care of all of you because the total you is made up of your entire self, including your body, mind, spirit, soul-your everything.    If one part of you is not up to par in some way or another, it's impossible for your everything else to be totally healthy. You have tried everything your friends, your doctors, and even the advertisement industry recommended for improving your health. But nothing has worked, except to make you a frustrated person.    Close your eyes right now and allow your conscious mind to contemplate your health situation. Be honest. You are not the healthiest that you can or should be. In fact, you are in dire straits according to how you feel and what your medical team says about your health. I know all of this about you because I was you so many years ago.    Like you, for years I followed the same type of diet herd that you have been following. And like you, after trying everything, I had no clue about what to try next. However, I found a clue. Over forty years, I lived the importance of and learned to replicate nature's wisdom on nutrition and movement in my unhealthy lifestyle. Her focus was on naturally changing lifestyles, not on temporary quick fixes. And in the process, she provided me with all types of support to do so. I carefully recorded her step-by-step wisdom and provided the details inside.    Ditch your next quick-fix cosmetic diet, and put your trust in nature's simple but trustworthy lifestyle-change wisdom.

At 79 years young, Dr. Betty Holston Smith has the fitness level of your average 30-year old and looks at least 20 years younger than she is!    Dr. Betty was previously a 200-pound couch potato who loved junk food and smoking. Dr. Betty shares more about how she transformed her life 50 years ago. This really is a master class told by a phenomenal story teller, who goes into the details.   During this podcast episode Dr. Betty shares more about her early life, how she got into running, how she changed her diet, how she trains, and how she copes on 4hrs of sleep a night. At 79 years young Dr. Betty is still running 60 to 100 miles per week!    If you want to learn the secrets of running, health and fitness, this is an episode not to be missed.   New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss out.    The tough girl podcast is sponsorship and ad free thanks to the monthly financial support of patrons. To find out more about supporting your favourite podcast and becoming a patron please check out <a href="http://www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast</a>.   Show notes <ul> <li>Speaking to Dr. Betty Holston Smith</li> <li>Being a smoker and eating junk food</li> <li>Being 200lbs overweight</li> <li>Why she decided to lose weight</li> <li>Trying all of the crazy diets</li> <li>Being inspired by <a href="https://www.drmirkin.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Mirkin</a> </li> <li>Why nutrition and movement is so important</li> <li>Advice for movement - Get outside 3x a week for 30 mins</li> <li>Why you need to strengthen your heart</li> <li>Why you need to eat, fruit, vegetables, whole foods, seeds and nuts</li> <li>What Dr. Betty eats on a daily basis</li> <li>Falling in love with running and how it became the core of her life</li> <li>Starting to feel the difference in her life</li> <li>Running ultra marathons and having no need for recovery</li> <li>The good things that have come from her lifestyle</li> <li>Being monitored by John Hopkins Hospital </li> <li>Thriving on 4hrs of sleep a night</li> <li>Doing relationship based coaching</li> <li>The importance of respecting the body</li> <li>Stretching and doing Tai Chi for 40 years</li> <li>Growing up in virgin woods and falling in love with mother nature</li> <li>Growing up as 1 of 6 children</li> <li>Her favourite shoes - <a href="https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vivo Barefoot</a></li> <li>Running marathons on 6 continents</li> <li>Running a half marathon (22 miles) on the Great Wall of China</li> <li>Running and teaching deep water running</li> <li>Setting up your body for running </li> <li>The benefits of chia seeds</li> <li>The power of having good posture</li> <li>Lessons from Michael Jackson with his pelvis</li> <li>Needing a strong core to be any kind of runner</li> <li>Why you need to have relaxed shoulders</li> <li>Why running should be moving meditation</li> <li>Writing her book - Lifestyle by Nature: One Woman's Break from the Unhealthy Herd to Roam Forever Healthy in Nature's Lifestyle Change Herd</li> <li>Focusing on what you love and what you are passionate about</li> <li>Wanting to run for the rest of her life</li> <li>Passion and perseverance </li> <li>Not caring about the finish line</li> <li>The process of changing a lifestyle</li> <li>Going to school during segregation</li> <li>The lifestyle change line</li> <li>On going challenges</li> <li>Running a 901 mile virtual race</li> <li>Looking for more virtual races</li> <li>Not being on social media</li> <li>What her week looks like</li> </ul>   Social Media   Book - Lifestyle by Nature: One Woman's Break from the Unhealthy Herd to Roam Forever Healthy in Nature's Lifestyle Change Herd    More about the book:   How are you? If your truest first thoughts in pondering this question are something like "I could be better," this nature-based lifestyle-change book might help. To be healthy, you must take care of all of you because the total you is made up of your entire self, including your body, mind, spirit, soul-your everything.    If one part of you is not up to par in some way or another, it's impossible for your everything else to be totally healthy. You have tried everything your friends, your doctors, and even the advertisement industry recommended for improving your health. But nothing has worked, except to make you a frustrated person.    Close your eyes right now and allow your conscious mind to contemplate your health situation. Be honest. You are not the healthiest that you can or should be. In fact, you are in dire straits according to how you feel and what your medical team says about your health. I know all of this about you because I was you so many years ago.    Like you, for years I followed the same type of diet herd that you have been following. And like you, after trying everything, I had no clue about what to try next. However, I found a clue. Over forty years, I lived the importance of and learned to replicate nature's wisdom on nutrition and movement in my unhealthy lifestyle. Her focus was on naturally changing lifestyles, not on temporary quick fixes. And in the process, she provided me with all types of support to do so. I carefully recorded her step-by-step wisdom and provided the details inside.    Ditch your next quick-fix cosmetic diet, and put your trust in nature's simple but trustworthy lifestyle-change wisdom.

Dr. Betty Holston Smith - 79 years young, running 60 to 100 miles per week, sharing her knowledge about running, health and fitness.

At 79, Dr. Betty Holston Smith is Fitter Than You Are AT 79, Dr. Betty Holston Smith has the fitness level of your average 30-year old and looks at least 20 years younger than she is! How did the former 200-pound couch potato and cigarette smoker transition to a vegan 50 years ago when hardly anyone even knew the word vegan and become a highly fit ultra-marathon runner? Dr. Betty shares with Coach Claire her nature’s wisdom philosophy she’s developed and lived by over the last 50 years, how she eats and trains, and her lack of need for much sleep or recovery time despite running 60 to 100 miles per week. Her overall health proves the benefits of strict vegan diets and highly fit lifestyles; the bottom line is that you do not need meat and junk food to stay healthy and fit.  Dr. Betty’s top rankings in the national ultra-running community continues even as she ages. At ages 76 and 78, she set and later broke official USA-TF ultra-marathon national age group records for the 48-hour and 6-day ultra-marathon races. She is in the USA-Track and Field permanent record books. Currently, at age 79, she continues her national ranking by the ultra-running community (91.46% age group ranked and 49.06% overall ranked).  This strict plant eater has been a top-ranked ultra-marathon runner since she began running ultra-marathons in 2007. She took to running ultras after she completed 85 marathons run throughout the USA and on all seven Continents (a marathon on six including Antarctica), and a half marathon on the Great Wall of China. Now she trains for and uses marathons to train for ultras!  She has completed 30 ultras run in: Boston, San Francisco, Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. She is the founder and coach of the “Abandon Your Limits” land and deep-water running programs. Dr. Betty is currently running virtual races due to the pandemic and will continue to do so until the pandemic is controlled. She recently used a fitness age calculator developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The expected fitness level for her age of 79.6 is 26 VO2. According to the calculator, her fitness age is 45 VO2 and she has the fitness level of an average 30-year old. The free calculator is available at: https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/#/ Prepare to be amazed and inspired by the one and only, Dr Betty Holston Smith!   Questions Dr Betty is asked:  2:35 You are a 79 year old plant-based ultra runner and I suspect that you are healthier and fitter than most people listening to this show!  Can you talk about how you first started running and how you came to adopt a plant-based lifestyle?   12:12 How do you take your ego away from the finish line in a race?   12:27 You've talked about your life being  structured around "Nature's Wisdom." What does that mean for you?   23:24 You’ve said that you’re just a normal person that does a whole lot of good things. Well, I don’t know. Four hours of sleep doesn’t sound too normal. You said that you don’t need any recovery and you can still run 100 miles a week at almost 80 years old?   25:00 Have you ever been injured?   32:37 What foods do you eat every day?   Questions I ask everyone:   40:39 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you first started running, what advice would you give yourself?   42:06 What is the greatest gift that running has given you?   46:06 Where can listeners connect with you?   Quotes by Dr Betty:   “I don’t know how many marathons, I’ve lost track, but I do know at some point I was at 85 marathons, and I have run marathons on each of the seven continents.”   “My running is passion. My running is perseverance. Those two things are great for all of life, not just running.”   “I bring all of my food to all of my races. I also have a log with the food items across the top, and across the left side going down, I keep track of when I’m eating what. Once I’m into a six-day race and it’s day three, I’m not going to remember when I drank the last water.”   Take a Listen on Your Next Run   Want more awesome interviews and advice?  Subscribe to our iTunes channel Mentioned in this podcast:    Vivobarefoot Shoes  Clif 90% Organic Lemon Lime Powder Lifestyle by Nature book  Danny Dreyer, Chi Running Founder - Runt To The Top Interview Runners Connect Winner's Circle Facebook Community RunnersConnect Facebook page claire@runnersconnect.net   Follow Dr Betty on:   drbettys@aol.com   We really hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of Run to the Top. The best way you can show your support of the show is to share this podcast with your family and friends and share it on your Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media channel you use. The more people who know about the podcast and download the episodes, the more I can reach out to and get top running influencers, to bring them on and share their advice, which hopefully makes the show even more enjoyable for you!

At 79, Dr. Betty Holston Smith is Fitter Than You Are AT 79, Dr. Betty Holston Smith has the fitness level of your average 30-year old and looks at least 20 years younger than she is! How did the former 200-pound couch potato and cigarette smoker transition to a vegan 50 years ago when hardly anyone even knew the word vegan and become a highly fit ultra-marathon runner? Dr. Betty shares with Coach Claire her nature’s wisdom philosophy she’s developed and lived by over the last 50 years, how she eats and trains, and her lack of need for much sleep or recovery time despite running 60 to 100 miles per week. Her overall health proves the benefits of strict vegan diets and highly fit lifestyles; the bottom line is that you do not need meat and junk food to stay healthy and fit.  Dr. Betty’s top rankings in the national ultra-running community continues even as she ages. At ages 76 and 78, she set and later broke official USA-TF ultra-marathon national age group records for the 48-hour and 6-day ultra-marathon races. She is in the USA-Track and Field permanent record books. Currently, at age 79, she continues her national ranking by the ultra-running community (91.46% age group ranked and 49.06% overall ranked).  This strict plant eater has been a top-ranked ultra-marathon runner since she began running ultra-marathons in 2007. She took to running ultras after she completed 85 marathons run throughout the USA and on all seven Continents (a marathon on six including Antarctica), and a half marathon on the Great Wall of China. Now she trains for and uses marathons to train for ultras!  She has completed 30 ultras run in: Boston, San Francisco, Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. She is the founder and coach of the “Abandon Your Limits” land and deep-water running programs. Dr. Betty is currently running virtual races due to the pandemic and will continue to do so until the pandemic is controlled. She recently used a fitness age calculator developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The expected fitness level for her age of 79.6 is 26 VO2. According to the calculator, her fitness age is 45 VO2 and she has the fitness level of an average 30-year old. The free calculator is available at: <a href="https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/#/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/#/</a> Prepare to be amazed and inspired by the one and only, Dr Betty Holston Smith! Questions Dr Betty is asked: 2:35 You are a 79 year old plant-based ultra runner and I suspect that you are healthier and fitter than most people listening to this show!  Can you talk about how you first started running and how you came to adopt a plant-based lifestyle? 12:12 How do you take your ego away from the finish line in a race? 12:27 You've talked about your life being  structured around "Nature's Wisdom." What does that mean for you? 23:24 You’ve said that you’re just a normal person that does a whole lot of good things. Well, I don’t know. Four hours of sleep doesn’t sound too normal. You said that you don’t need any recovery and you can still run 100 miles a week at almost 80 years old? 25:00 Have you ever been injured? 32:37 What foods do you eat every day? Questions I ask everyone: 40:39 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you first started running, what advice would you give yourself? 42:06 What is the greatest gift that running has given you? 46:06 Where can listeners connect with you? Quotes by Dr Betty: “I don’t know how many marathons, I’ve lost track, but I do know at some point I was at 85 marathons, and I have run marathons on each of the seven continents.” “My running is passion. My running is perseverance. Those two things are great for all of life, not just running.” “I bring all of my food to all of my races. I also have a log with the food items across the top, and across the left side going down, I keep track of when I’m eating what. Once I’m into a six-day race and it’s day three, I’m not going to remember when I drank the last water.” Take a Listen on Your Next Run Want more awesome interviews and advice? <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/runnersconnect-run-to-top/id535203893?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Subscribe to our iTunes channel</a> Mentioned in this podcast:  <a href="https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vivobarefoot Shoes</a> <a href="https://www.clifbar.com/products/clif/hydration-electrolyte-drink-mix/lemon-lime-ade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Clif 90% Organic Lemon Lime Powder</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3hJYPkF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lifestyle by Nature book</a> <a href="https://runnersconnect.net/running-interviews/chirunning-maximum-efficiency-minimal-impact-pain-free-running-danny-dreyer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Danny Dreyer, Chi Running Founder - Runt To The Top Interview</a> <a href="http://www.runnersconnect.net/fb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Runners Connect Winner's Circle Facebook Community</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onlinerunningcoach/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RunnersConnect Facebook page</a> <a href="mailto:claire@runnersconnect.com">claire@runnersconnect.net</a> Follow Dr Betty on: <a href="mailto:drbettys@aol.com">drbettys@aol.com</a> We really hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of Run to the Top. The best way you can show your support of the show is to share this podcast with your family and friends and share it on your Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media channel you use. The more people who know about the podcast and download the episodes, the more I can reach out to and get top running influencers, to bring them on and share their advice, which hopefully makes the show even more enjoyable for you!

At 79, Dr Betty Holston Smith is Fitter Than You Are - 07/29/2020