We are back after a week off for the American holiday. This episode is a thoughtful discussion with a long time friend and cyclist John Shishilla. As John returned to cycling and better health after some tough years, and facing a new stage of his life, he refects and offers some great wisdom in an thoroughly enjoyable conversation. We recorded this episode in the late winter and it is a great contrast to the long and active summer days.

This week's episode of the "Fit and Healthy?/Healthy and Fit" podcast explores athletic identity, fitness and health with our guest Alyssa Leib. Alyssa shares her story of changes in how she thinks about fitness and health, particularly as a result of her recovery from an eating disorder. We discuss how sports can improve with regards to conversation and action regarding disordered eating. Host Jason Digman shares his personal day of thanks. We recorded this episode a few months ago but we're releasing it just after this important day in the life of the show's host. Thanks for listening.

We talk with Kurt Perham from Personal Best Multisport about how fitness and health overlap for him, in the larger world of endurance sports, and among those who might not call themselves athletes at all. Kurt shares how his athletic identity changed over the years as he's become and parent and then managing still not fully understood health issues. Hope you enjoy the episode and please share our podcast, thanks.

I had a lovely conversation with Cait Dumas-Hein of Grounded (Nebraska). We touched on a number of important topics including how our athletic identity does not always match with our health, including a shared injury history at the hands of cyclcocross (somewhat kidding). Most important of all, Cait's emphasis on peoples' perspective on safety at Gronded and in her work with bicycling advocacy was really useful to me, hoping to you listeners as well.

I am joined by Ted Roseen, aka Yoga Ted, a yoga instructor and runner and running coach from Minneapolis, Minnesota. We talk about Ted's development as an athlete, his passion for yoga and how yoga and running are keys part of his life. Both yoga and running, however, have not been static and how these changed over his life is a great lesson for all of us in balancing priorities and working to limit perfectionism. Thanks to Ted for taking the time to chat, it was a fun conversation.

Today's brief episode is an introduction to the podcast.