Podcast appearances and mentions of hector espinal

Host Oneika Raymond takes the A-line up to Washington Heights, a loud, vibrant Dominican neighborhood in New York City, to join local Hector Espinal for a walking tour of his hometown. Hector is the co-founder of We Run Uptown, the first-ever running group in uptown Manhattan, and the perfect guide to get to know the streets of Washington Heights.     Oneika joins Hector at Locksmith Bar, a popular local watering hole and the meeting point for We Run Uptown's weekly Monday runs, before heading out to visit some of Hector's favorite sights, restaurants and running routes in the area. To kick off the tour, Hector shows Oneika a local shortcut to avoid walking some of the steepest hills in all of Manhattan as they make their way to St. Nicholas Ave., a bustling thoroughfare at the heart of Washington Heights. St. Nicholas Ave. They stroll down the busy avenue towards 182nd St. to check out its famed street vendors, including Nidia Rivera, who's been selling the Dominican dessert habichuelas con dulce for over 30 years. Then, Hector and Oneika stop for a traditional Dominican breakfast at La Casa del Mofongo. Over the meal, Hector and Oneika connect over their shared Caribbean roots, as Hector shares what it was like for him growing up in Washington Heights. We learn about la cultura of the neighborhood and its people, and the welcoming running culture that Hector's helped create here. Hector and Oneika end the day at J. Hood Wright Park, a quiet pocket of Washington Heights with one of the best views of the George Washington Bridge, before taking off for a victory run to close out the tour.To read full episodes of About the Journey and see photos from the day, head to About the Journey on Marriott Bonvoy Traveler. Starting this season, you can also watch videos from a few of these trips on our Marriott Bonvoy Youtube channel.

Live From The Stoop Ep. 5 ”Hector Espinal”    As the New York City Marathon was yesterday and congratulations to all the runners, I felt was very important that we talk to a 2x marathoner and a true inspiration in his own right.   “This is no finish line.” is one of Nike's earlier ad campaigns.  44 years later the slogan still stand as I spoke with Uptown's own Hector Espinal. @hecisdead  truly embodied this quote to the fullest. From his very modest childhood beginnings to running around these New York City streets as a teenager. Hec breathes Uptown and learned a way to incorporate his passions into a meaningful career . Tune into this very compelling episode as he tells his story from manhood to fatherhood.  As the co founder of the “We Run Uptown” (@wrucrew)— a run club that turns 8 years old this year. Hector has changed the perspective on health and self esteem in his community.    Be sure to connect with @wrucrew every Monday for a run. Podcast link in bio.   Follow Live From The Stoop podcast on Instagram! Follow Robbie Digital on Twitter and Instagram.

Mensaje predicado el 28 de marzo del 2021 por el pastor Hector Espinal.

“I come from the South Bronx. I had to leave the Bronx to have access to these things. I had to go downtown to take arts classes, writing, theater and poetry classes. What did I do it? I brought all that shit back Uptown so that everyone had access to that and it wasn’t just me. I felt horrible to be in these spaces that I knew would never accept me if I was with my homies from the block. They would never allow me. It was important for me to be the conduit or in the middle and maneuver through these spaces to see what I can do so I could bring it back." – Patty “There’s a lot of dope things in the hood. We’re trying to empower people to celebrate the dope things. It’s not always about getting away and getting other resources from outside of the hood. That’s super important but it’s also about celebrating the things that are dope in the hood, why we should stay in the hood and foster it...While you’re going out and getting resources from other places and seeing the world, you’re also celebrating your people and the world that you’re in while uplifting those narratives that are from the block." – Reph This episode has no shortage of hype and energy as we’re joined by Amilcar Alfaro-Martell (Reph) and Patricia Marte (Patty Dukes), who started Circa '95. They’re a hip hop music collective with Afro-Latino roots that actually started off as a podcast back in the day. Their work looks to mesh the best of music, art, culture and athletics through running. They’ve performed at Carnegie Hall, SXSW and even at the Smithsonian Museum. Reph and Patty grew up in Washington Heights and the Bronx and when they’re not hosting their own runs they can be found running with We Run Uptown. (If you want the story behind that group’s origins check out one of our earliest episodes with Hector Espinal.) We kicked off the new year with them because it was recently announced they were among six winners of the Tracksmith Fellowship and look to create a Hip-Hop music project “born at the intersection of arts, athletics, and social justice.” We touch on that, the importance of celebrating and cultivating talent in the community, the connection between hip hop and the urban running scene and much more. Follow Circa '95: @circa95 | https://www.circa95.com/ Follow Reph: @RephStar Follow Patty Dukes: @Pattydukes This is Runners of NYC. A biweekly podcast from CITIUS MAG. Hosts Leigh Anne Sharek and Chris Chavez look to bring you many of the untold stories behind luminaries and legends that make up New York City’s running culture. You can catch the latest episode of the podcast on iTunes so subscribe and leave a five-star review. We are also on Spotify! MERCH NOW AVAILABLE HERE Follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

Singer/Songwriter, Lee Burgos & Global Makeup Artist for Fenty Beauty, Hector Espinal stop by for the BS'ing with Chris End of Year Holi-Sleigh Special and we talk about the years biggest topics & a new segment called "In My DM's" - Topics include COVID-19/Vaccines, Presidential Election, Verzuz Battles, Female Rappers, Bad Bunny, TikTok, The Weeknd's Grammy Snubs & SuperBowl Conspiracy, Lee's Holiday Special, What we are all looking forward to in 2021, Lee & I try to convince Hector to tell Rihanna to put us in the next Savage x Fenty Show & So much more! BS'ing with Chris Instagram: @bswithchris Facebook: Facebook/BSwithChris Twitter: @bswithchris Lee Burgos Instagram: @leeburgos Hector Espinal Instagram: @artbyhector

Global Makeup Artist for Rihanna & Fenty Beauty @fentybeauty Hector Espinal @artbyhector and I have a chat on how his career in makeup began, what it's like working with Rihanna & Fenty Beauty, we play a game of BS or No BS and SO MUCH MORE!BS'ing with ChrisInstagram/Facebook/Twitter: @bswithchrisHector EspinalPersonal Instagram: @artbyhector See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Sunday, June 14th, hundreds of New York City runners gathered at the East River Amphitheatre for a two-mile protest run against racial injustice and police brutality in America. The run was organized by Coffey – who was recently a guest on our show and has emerged as one of the city's most vocal activists in the fight against racism. He called on all New York City runners to come together and run together as one community. He initially expected 40 to 60 people to show up but there were hundreds. It was further proof that everyone in the running community will take the time to run together, protest together, listen together and make change together. After the run, there was a speaker series with crew leaders sharing personal stories of their encounters with racism, what it means to be Black in America and how you can help make a change. Coffey granted us permission to share the audio from the conversation. The speakers are listed below with timestamps so that you can pick up on hearing everything they had to share because it's important. We have also included their respective Instagram handles so you can follow them. Coffey of DeFine New York Run Club: 3:44 (@thatcoffeyboy) Pastor Craig Holliday of the Brooklyn Tabernacle: 13:08 New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchel Silver: 17:50 (@mitchell_silver) Cheryl Donald of Brooklyn Track Club: 23:56 (@blackpearlruns) Dao-Yi Chow of Old Man Run Club: 32:54 (@alldaydaoyi) Mike Saes of Bridge Runners: 43:40 (@mikesaes) Jessie Zapo of Girls Run NYC: 47:48 (@jessiezapo) Hector Espinal of We Run Uptown: 56:36 (@hecisdead) Julissa Tejada of Wilpower Fitness: 1:01:09 (@mrs._wilpower_) Jason Fulford of The Running Edge & the cousin of Eric Garner (@jayfuf15): 1:05:59 Steve Finley of Brooklyn Track Club: 1:14:21 (@steve__finley) Nova Church of Bronx Sole: 1:19:11 (@nova.church) Power Malu of Bridgerunners: 1:28:00 (@powermalu) Cover photo provided Steven Rojas | @stevenrojas

On this episode of the Hey Now podcast we got a chance to sit down and chop it with Hector Espinal co-founder of We Run Uptown. We had a dope conversation regarding how he got into running and how his uptown movement began motivating the people. I truly believe people can learn so much from his journey because in certain point in our lives I know we felt the same way Hec has felt. Truly inspiring and motivating...... He also inspired me to run this years NYC Marathon! So sit back and relax and listening to the journey of Hector Espinal! #heynow #werunuptown

Whilst in the Tub, typically a place of relaxation and reflection this podcast explores the topic of HELP in all its forms.For our first episode we caught up with Hector Espinal of New York City, a health care worker, entrepreneur and father of 2. We asked him the following questions...When last did you ask for help?When last did someone ask you for help?How does helping others make you feel?How do you think the act of helping others impacts your wellbeing?You'll be surprised at what he has to share.Who's this podcast for? Anyone who ever asked for help...... or didn't! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mirna Valerio and The Pansa Boyz (Tyrone Alomia, Hector Espinal, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Jason Suarez) join the podcast in front of a LIVE audience to discuss how they are redefining what runners look like and creating inclusive communities to inspire all. Mirna Valerio is a native of Brooklyn, NY, a former educator, cross-country coach, ultrarunner, obstacle course enthusiast, and author of the recently published memoir, A Beautiful Work in Progress. Although she began running in high school, she recommitted to the sport after a health scare in 2008. It was then that her love for running and all its attendant benefits were reignited. She soon started her blog Fatgirlrunning, about her experiences as a larger woman in a world of thinner athletes. The Pansa Boyz are Tyrone Alomia, Hector Espinal, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Jason Suarez. Profiled most recently in Men’s Health, the four friends have connected over the positive impact running has had for them. As their profile in Men’s Health notes, “These four guys—who’ve adopted the nickname ‘Pansa Boyz’ (“panza” the word for “belly” in Spanish)—weigh almost a ton combined. Recently, they teamed up to relay both the North Face Endurance 50K Challenge and the Brooklyn Mile, the native New Yorkers aren’t slowing down anytime soon—at least not because of their size.” ------ ❤️ Please consider supporting our work. We want to continue pushing out the podcast on a bi-weekly basis and bring you quality audio for our guests. we're simply asking for you to set aside a few dollars that might go toward a coffee or dollar slice to support our work. In return, we'll do our best to put together exclusive episodes, interviews and maybe some video for those supporters. The NYC running community is awesome and we'd appreciate the assistance: www.patreon.com/runnersofnyc ------ --------- ▶ Follow us: twitter.com/RunnersOfNYC instagram.com/runnersofnyc ▶ Follow Chris twitter.com/ChrisChavez instagram.com/chris_j_chavez www.strava.com/athletes/9032675 ▶ Follow Leigh Anne twitter.com/leighannesharek instagram.com/wicked.la www.strava.com/athletes/10122804

The girls sit with Wrucrew, Never Not Bootleggin’ and After Miles co-founder Hector Espinal known as a marathoner and public figure and speaks about running in the marathon, how Wrucrew was created and more.

"Running uptown isn't normal, especially our kind of social running. You might see one middle-aged white person running along Riverside Drive on a long run, but you never saw anyone running on Broadway, Amsterdam, or Washington Avenue. So when people started seeing a big group of us running, it’s very, very different from what they’re used to." - Hector Espinal, WRU Crew Growing up in NYC’s Washington Heights neighborhood, Hector Espinal never imagined he’d one day become a runner. “I've never played any sports. All the men in my family are really into sports but me, so I’ve always kind of been the black sheep,” Hec told us. And looking back, he and his friends felt like their neighborhood discouraged a healthy lifestyle, with fast food joints on every corner and few public spaces to play in. To motivate himself to get fit five years ago, Hector Espinal would invite everyone he knew to join him on runs. Hec stuck with it week in and week out, and soon he had a group of regulars joining him. Today We Run Uptown, or WRU Crew, the run club Hec started, meets every week, even through the dead of winter. As many as 100 diverse runners gather at the same spot in Washington Heights on Mondays at 7:00 pm then take to the streets to hoots and hollers of support from folks in the neighborhood. How did Hector build something so special? We sat down with him in Central Park to learn more.

In this podcast, Hector Espinal talks to us about who he is, his evolving relationship with running, and lastly, he gives new runners advice to help them crush their goals. Scroll down for complete show notes. Join the Movement: Subscribe and Review! Get the 300 Pounds and Running Podcast delivered automatically to your smart phone or podcast player at no charge to you, please subscribe using your preferred method below: Get the RSS Feed for your own favorite RSS Podcast Player. Show your boy some love and leave me a review and rating on iTunes! This helps me get the show up in the rankings and I'd deeply appreciate it. Show Notes 1:30 - Who is Hector Espinal? 2:50 - Hector Espinal shares why he decided to run. 28:43 - Hector Espinal talks about We Run Uptown. 45:05 - Hector and Martinus talk about Body Positive from the male perspective. 1:30:00 -   Hector shares his upcoming goals and words of wisdom. Resources Mentioned During the Podcast Zero to Running E-Book - https://300poundsandrunning.com/zero-to-running/ How do I contact Hector Espinal? Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/hecisdead/ I Appreciate Your iTunes Reviews! Getting a 5-star rating and/or written review is incredibly important for this show. It helps with ranking and with generating the necessary exposure that gets this podcast out in front of other runners. But it is even more important to me! I read each and every comment and really take them all to heart. They provide encouragement that what I am doing is getting noticed and that the show is getting listened to. I am so thankful to those who have recently gone into iTunes to give a five-star rating and write a review of the 300 Pounds and Running Podcast. That's why I'm asking YOU to please give your boy rating and/or write a review on iTunes. You can do so by following the instructions below: Go to the show's iTunes Page or search “300 Pounds and Running” from iTunes if you aren't already a subscriber. Open the page in the iTunes app, and click on the number of stars for the rating you think I deserve. Write a sentence or two to share your comments. A million thanks in advance! That's it for now. Keep crushing those goals, and we'll be back next time!

In this episode, we find out how someone who explained to us that he was once so uninterested in sports that he would roll around in the grass next to his childhood baseball field to make it look like he'd played when he got home later....how that kid went on to co-found a running group uptown. Hector Espinal is the co-founder of WRU Crew— which meets every Monday nights out of Bodega Pizza in Washington Heights —and also the co-founder of Never Not Bootleggin' – a clothing brand that fuses running with hip hop and pop culture. Hector went from never having run more than a few steps in his life, to completing the NYC Marathon in and hopes to do another one very soon. He talked to us at a diner near where he was raised about how he first started to run for his health and how a community grew out of that. We also delve into what made him so determined to finish a marathon, how he dealt with having to pull out of one and why he continues to run as much as he can, even if his free time is a rare commodity. You can follow Hector on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/hecisdead/ Follow We Run Uptown: https://www.instagram.com/wrucrew/ This is Runners of NYC. A new bi-weekly podcast from CITIUS MAG. Hosts Jeanne Mack and Chris Chavez look to bring you many of the untold stories behind luminaries and legends that make up New York City’s running culture. Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter: @RunnersOfNYC. Email any comments, feedback or possible sponsorship ideas to runnersofnyc@gmail.com Our producer is Jon Phillips. Music for the show is by Future Generations. Podcast artwork by Kyle Klosinski. --------- Special note: In the early morning of Thursday, December 6th 2018, Marquita Hannibal-Francique passed away at the age of 38. She leaves behind a 14-year-old daughter and three-year-old son along with her husband, Adam. She was heavily involved in the Uptown running community and will be dearly missed by many. A fundraiser was set up to help her family cover funeral services and the remaining placed into a college fund for her two children. Nearly $42,000 was raised as of Monday night. If you are interested in more information and how you can help, please visit this link: https://www.gofundme.com/remembering-marquitahannibal-francique

Episode 3 of the Urban Sports Insider Podcast features Hector Espinal the co-founder/captain of Washington Heights’ WeRun Uptown Crew. Hector shares his story of how a break-up inspired him to lose weight and start running, how becoming a father and working long hours has challenged him to stay committed to the sport, and eventually against all odds he “finally became a real runner” by completing the New York City marathon in 2017. Sportimity iOS App: https://itunes.apple.com/app/sportimity/id1071440081 Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sportimity.app Website: http://sportimity.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sportimity/message