122: How to Start Running with Coach Kelly Lutz

A conversation with Coach Kelly Lutz on how to start running! If you are new to the idea of running or want to get better at running, this is the episode for you! This is Joy & Claire Episode 122: How to Start Running with Coach Kelly Lutz Episode Date: April 14, 2022 Transcription Completed: May 10, 2022 Audio Length: 44:39 minutes  Joy: Hey guys. This is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: Welcome to another week of our podcast that’s been going on forever and ever, and you’re still here listening. Claire: We’re so happy. We’re so happy. Joy: Thank you for listening. Thank you for continuing to support the podcast this week. I didn’t think we’d ever have this topic with Claire on the show, just because Claire doesn’t love running. But we’re going to be talking about running. We have Kelly Lutz on the show, who we met through the interwebs. And also, you’re local. You live in Denver, right? Claire: Arvada. Joy: Arvada, close enough. You and I met at a local farmer’s market. Just very close connections in the Denver area. So you and I have talked off and on about running and talking through Instagram, and you’re like, “Hey, I should come on and talk about running because people have a weird relationship with running.” I am doing a race I’ll talk about in a second in May. And I was like, well sure, let’s talk about something that we all kind of have this weird relationship with. Either you love it or you hate it. There doesn’t really seem to be an in between. So let’s talk about running, Kelly. Tell our listeners who you are, where you’re from, and why you’re a running coach. Kelly: Sure. Like you said, I’m Kelly. I’ve been a running coach since the end of 2020. Still fairly recent. But I’m also a data scientist, so half nerd, half runner. I became a running coach because I started training for my second 50k in 2020. I just remembered my first 50k and how awesome it felt. Claire is giving me a look right now.  Joy: Well the immediate thing is, when you said “how blank I felt,” I thought you were going to say “how awful I felt.” 50k is so much. Claire: How long in time? How many minutes does that take you to run that long? Hours or days? I don’t know. How do you measure? Kelly: It was like 7 hours and 15 minutes. Joy: 7 hours, 15 minutes. Claire: Of pure agony. I’m just projecting onto you. It’s fine. Kelly: The funniest thing is, that’s the shortest ultramarathon distance. Joy: Alright, well, that’s a thing. Continue. Our minds are already blown at just distance. Kelly: Yeah. So I decided I wanted to run my second one. Then I learned there were running certifications so I could learn how to train properly. And I also learned that at ultramarathons, there isn’t a big presence of females in there, so I wanted to help other women learn how to train for ultras and get into it. So that was my primary driver for starting coaching. Since then, it’s evolved into helping other women with their relationship with running. Mostly helping them to ditch their perfectionism because it’s very common in all of us, and especially with running and working out.  Joy: For sure. My first reaction when you were coming on the show and just talking about running is I immediately go to the first time I started to really run for exercise. At the time, it was more about the very late 90’s, early 2000’s culture of you’re going to lose weight,