About this episode

This episode’s guest is Kaci Lickteig! Kaci is a professional trail runner and physical therapist who lives in Nebraska.

In this episode, we talked about:

  • Evolution of distance running
  • Her love of the community
  • Finding out what she’s made of in ultras
  • Signing up and running a marathon with her mom
  • Running and exercising with her mom and grandma
  • Practicing gratitude
  • What she does professionally as a PT, working post-surgery
  • how to decide rest vs continuing to train
  • Goal races and getting out of her element
  • Western States and why she loves it
  • changing sponsors and her use of social media
  • and much more!

You can follow along with Kaci’s journey at instagram.com/ultrarunnerkc and twitter.com/runner_kc


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