See Where Your Feet Will Take You: Krista Alderdice of Blue Collar Runners

If you don’t get some inspiration from this one, you have a heart of stone!

Krista Alderdice is one of the founders of Blue Collar Runners, a website devoted to telling the stories of ordinary people who love to run. Krista and her husband Guy got into ultrarunning as "grown ups", Guy in his mid 30s and Krista in 2015, after a horrifying injury that we talk about in this interview. On one of their training runs together, Krista and Guy hatched the idea of Blue Collar Runners, and the profiles of everyday people that they started posting on the website eventually caught the attention of Ultrarunning Magazine, which now hosts a recurring feature profile from BCR on the Ultrarunning.com website.

Krista and I talk about the link between the outdoors and mental health, whether it always makes sense to push your limits, and how inspiration often comes from the most unexpected places.

Back from a brief social media hiatus, Krista can be found @BlueCollarRunners and @vtrunnermom on Instagram, and of course check out her website.

More links you might like:

• Laura Farrell episode of GGW
• VT 100
• Ultrarunning Magazine - Blue Collar Runners column
• Tailwind electrolyte drink mix
• Spring Energy Gels
• Javelina Jundred (100K) - Arizona
• Runamuck Ultra - Vermont
• Road to the Pogue - Woodstock, VT
• Mt. Ascutney
• Brownsville Country Store
• Harpoon Brewery - Windsor, VT
• Pemi Loop - New Hampshire
• Salomon water filter attachment
• Jeanne Christie episode of GGW

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