Episode 31 – Chris & Michael Nicolaides | Brothers With a 10-Year Run Streak

Run Streaker Series – Episode 2

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with two brothers — Chris Nicolaides (66) and Michael Nicolaides (63) — who have each run at least one mile every single day for over ten years.

Chris started his streak on Thanksgiving Day 2015. Michael started his 33 days later.

Neither one has stopped.

But the streak numbers alone don't tell the story.

These brothers have run 97 miles together at Umstead 100, stayed in Damascus, Virginia, to help rebuild after Hurricane Helene instead of racing, and once ran the Appalachian Trail together during Covid just to see each other.

Running every single day is not just what they do.

It's who they are.

This episode is the second installment of the Run Streaker Series.

The series began with Episode 24, when Kevin Brunson — an 18-year run streaker who appeared on Episode 12 of the podcast — reached out to Tim Hardy, another 18-year streaker, and brought him on the show. Kevin and Tim had followed each other's running for years but had never actually spoken. Their first real conversation happened on that episode.

At the end of that conversation, I challenged Kevin and Tim to find the next guests for the series.

Tim Hardy knew exactly who to call.

He had met Chris and Michael years earlier at a marathon dinner — and unknowingly planted the seed that led them both to start streaking. Tim is happy to take full credit. And full responsibility.

Both Kevin and Tim join this episode as co-hosts, anchoring the Run Streaker Series alongside the brothers.

We talk about:

• The New Year's Eve dare around a fire in Richmond that started everything
• Running before a hernia surgery — and again the night after
• The midnight split: how to get two streak days out of one late-night run
• Running Heathrow Terminal 5 back and forth, four times, to hit two miles
• 97 miles side by side at Umstead 100 — and what happened at mile 97
• Hurricane Helene, a canceled race, and staying to help rebuild a community
• Raven — the Miami Beach runner who has gone every single day since January 1st, 1975
• What all four would tell someone thinking about starting a streak

The Nicolaides brothers exist in rarefied air inside the running world.

They are believed to be one of the only brother pairs on earth holding an active run streak of this length. And when you hear the four of them in the same conversation — two brothers at ten years, two friends at eighteen — you understand immediately what that kind of commitment means, and what it gives back.

This is Run Streaker Series Episode 2.

If you know a run streaker — or a sibling pair still going — I'd love to hear from you.

Kevin Brunson and Tim Hardy return as anchors of the Run Streaker Series and will help bring future guests into these conversations.

If you know a run streaker whose story should be told, send them this episode.

Run Long After 60 is produced as a video-first podcast.

If you'd like to watch the full conversation, you can find the video version — including chapter markers — on the Run Long After 60 YouTube channel.

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📍 Hosted by Mark Vega