Runner's High Times
Podcast Description
The Runner’s High Times is a podcast at the intersection of running, mental health, and the underground music scenes that fuel us. Hosted by musician and lifelong runner Gene Priest, each episode explores the rhythm of the runner's mind—from daily rituals and endurance breakthroughs to punk-fueled motivation and conversations with fellow artists, athletes, and weirdos chasing clarity through motion.
Whether you're sprinting toward peace, pacing through pain, or just trying to outrun your own chaos, this show is for you.
Run for your life.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as the mental benefits of running, personal clarity through physical activity, and the influence of music on athletic performance. Episodes include discussions on topics like heat exhaustion, punk music as therapy, and the creative process of artists like Erik Molenaar, showcasing how running shapes their coping mechanisms and artistic expression.
The Runner’s High Times is a podcast at the intersection of running, mental health, and the underground music scenes that fuel us. Hosted by musician and lifelong runner Gene Priest, each episode explores the rhythm of the runner’s mind—from daily rituals and endurance breakthroughs to punk-fueled motivation and conversations with fellow artists, athletes, and weirdos chasing clarity through motion.
Whether you’re sprinting toward peace, pacing through pain, or just trying to outrun your own chaos, this show is for you.
Run for your life.
This week on The Runner’s High Times, Gene sweats through the early summer heat-wave and spirals through the brain fog with his first ever solo episode. From learning this week that heat exhaustion is real to the origins of how running became his accidental mental health plan, this one’s part therapy, part comedy, and fully drenched.
He breaks down his first case of heat exhaustion (spoiler: it ends with cold towels and regret), offers sun-safe tips for fellow runners, shares his origin story as a musician-turned-runner, and introduces the first edition of the new segment: Runner or Psychopath?
You’ll also get a few unhinged Amazon running gear reviews, and some pretty raw quotes about why we run in the first place—even when it’s 100° and stupid. THE SUN HATES US.
Whether you’re chasing clarity or just trying to keep your nipples from chafing off in the heat, this one’s for you.
Run fast. Hydrate harder. Think weird. Welcome to the chaos.
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