Strides Forward – Podcast featuring documentary-style stories that explore focused topics with female marathon and ultramarathon runners from around the world.

Roads to Boston: 9 Runners, 1 Finish Line

Series Four: For this series, we're following the running stories of 9 women runners, from around the world, who are all preparing for the historic 125th Boston Marathon on October 11, 2021.

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Insights Into Long Distance Running

Series Three: This ongoing series features stories about how long-distance runners navigate these enduring challenges and what they learn along the way

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Running In A Woman's Body

Series Two: This ongoing series features first-person stories of women runners' experiences with menopause, RED-s (relative energy deficiency in sport), and pregnancy

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Women and the Comrades Marathon

Series One: This ongoing series features stories of women runners' experiences at the oldest and largest ultra-distance race in the world: South Africa's 90km/56-mile Comrades Marathon, "the ultimate human race"

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ABOUT STRIDES FORWARD

We create narrated audio stories that explore focused topics with women marathon and ultramarathon runners from around the world. Each episode features one woman’s story; each series focuses on different topics. To date, topics include “experiences at South Africa’s 90-km/56-mile Comrades Marathon,” “running in a woman’s body: stories of RED-s, pregnancy, menopause,” and “insights into ultrarunning.”

Host, narrator, and runner Cherie Louise Turner takes you into the experiences these women have with this deeply rewarding and forever challenging endurance sport. The stories are ultimately uplifting and highlight the many ways moving your body with purpose impacts you and the people around you.

Runners featured vary widely: from world record setters to mid-life fitness seekers, the stories are as different as the runners who share them. The one thing they all have in common, however, is that they love to run. You may be even be inspired to follow in their footsteps. Where can your body take you?

Strides Forward is made for runners and nonrunners alike. And, we believe that everyone should feel welcome at the start line, the group run, the trail adventure, the road workout, the track session, and the post-race BBQ.

We also believe in the power of stories to inspire and empower, and we recognize that mainstream sports media is failing women athletes and has been for decades. In hand, we agree with Dr. Cheryl Cooky that the future of media for women in sports is in niche media outlets, not legacy media. We created our Rad Stuff page for this reason: to highlight the many places you can find stories about women athletes and/or created by women; we primarily focused on running and endurance adventure. Strides Forward exists to help bring powerful stories about women athletes to light, as well as topics that impact women that aren’t talked about enough. We exist to be part of this ever growing collective effort.

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THE STRIDES FORWARD TEAM

Strides Forward is hosted and produced by Cherie Louise Turner, in the Boston area, where the support for running and podcasting is exceptional: Cherie is a member of the PRX Podcast Garage and Somerville Road Runners.

Graphics, logo, and website are created by April Marriner of Bonfire Collaborative, in the most excellent town of Truckee, CA.

Original music and sound design are created by Cormac O’Regan, founding member of Playtoh, from the great city of Cork, Ireland.