Episode 78 | Julie Urbanski on A Nomadic Family Existence
by Nikki Parnell — March 11, 2022 — 📷: Rapid Ascent
This week on the podcast we talk with Julie Urbanski – a mom of two, co-founder of Team RunRun with her husband Matt, seriously epic world traveler and triple crown thru-hiker! Team RunRun is an awesome run coaching company that helps pair athletes with coaches and Julie shares what is important in a coaching/athlete relationship and how having a coach can really benefit your whole family by making training and racing a more successful experience.
Julie and Matt have traveled and lived all over the world and have hiked the PCT, CDT, CT and AT and now they bring their boys all over as well. Their first son visited 18 countries and 5 continents by the time he was 3. We get to hear valuable travel tips about how they’ve made a nomadic lifestyle work and how they travel with kids – pointing out that kids are hard anywhere (as Julie says, “it can be pure hell to have them in your house all day”) and view long travel days like an ultra – take it one step at a time and try to do each section as best as you can to get to the finish line. Julie shares her favorite places to travel with kids, how she and Matt train while abroad, how to travel light and how they navigate the pull between being close to family and adventuring in far away places. They were oversees for a couple years in New Zealand during the pandemic and we hear about what that was like!
Julie describes her experience becoming a mom and the immediate understanding she found for other parents, what recovery was like from a C-section and then V-back and the difficulties with returning to running postpartum. Julie is so relatable and we received so many chunks of wisdom from her stories about all aspects of life! Fair warning: this is a long episode and it may make you want to sell all your possessions and travel the world. Just a heads up! Listen to this episode by clicking the link below or searching “Run Hard Mom Hard” on your preferred podcast platform! Don’t forget to subscribe and share!
Show Notes:
Find Julie on Instagram
Check out Team RunRun
Read more about Julie’s family travels on their blog
Find Julie’s books about through hiking!
Buy a Breville Espresso machine (Julie’s favorite thing)
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