The Sports Doctor, October 7, 2026

The Sports Doctor with Dr Robert Weil Masters Sprinting After 56, A Toeless Comeback, and the Hidden Economics of Barter with Graham Broyd and Noah Perlis Dr. Bob Weil hosts a doubleheader with Masters sprinting champions and authors Graham Broyd and Noah Perlis, covering late-life track careers, a toe lost waterskiing, the mental game of competition, and the hidden economics of barter. A Doubleheader Opens Live From Chicago Dr. Bob Weil opens live from Chicago with his usual sponsor rundown, thanking Global Schoolwear, Lower Extremity Review magazine, Bryan Therapeutics, and UK Health Radio, and welcoming a soon-to-join sponsor, Reset elastic resistance bands. He previews a doubleheader featuring two senior Masters sprinting champions and authors: Graham Broyd, CEO of Broyd Partners and author of the upcoming book Faster Than You at 60, and returning guest Noah Perlis, founder of The Barter Strategist and a late-seventies world-class sprinter. Weil promises his regular Sports Doctor's In segment to close the hour. Welcoming Broyd first, he jokes about placing his own New York accent against Broyd's English one, noting the interview will later replay on UK Health Radio, and asks Broyd to describe his unusual path into competitive track and field after building a career almost entirely outside organized sport until his mid-fifties. Graham Broyd's Late-Blooming Sprint Career Graham Broyd tells Weil he took up running at 56, finished the 2015 London Marathon 'appallingly,' but enjoyed the renewed fitness enough to join a local track club, where a veteran coach watched him run and decided he was built for sprinting rather than distance, comparing him to quick, high-arched athletes like tennis players John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. Weil and Broyd discuss how rare that kind of coaching insight is even at the highest levels of sports medicine. Broyd then shares a remarkable detail: he has no right big toe, lost years earlier when a boat's tow rope caught his foot while waterskiing in the Panama Canal and tore the toe away. Despite losing what Weil calls the foot's major push-off lever, Broyd runs without an orthotic, relying instead on a simple insole that supports the intact ball of his foot, a solution Weil calls hard to argue with given Broyd's continued success as a nationally and world-ranked Masters sprinter. The Big Five, A New Book, And LER Turns Ten Broyd credits his running success partly to lessons from his forty-year banking career, outlining five traits his physiologist friend found common among Masters champions: a daily structure and schedule, staying in motion, having a clear purpose, camaraderie or social connection, and the dopamine-driven high of celebrating success, in sport or business alike. Weil agrees that perseverance and fulfillment matter as much in the boardroom as the locker room, then shares that Broyd pays only 'reasonable' attention to nutrition, noting the book profiles champions with wildly different eating habits. During the break, Weil promotes his new book with Sharkie Zartman, #HeySportsParents, outlining its four sections covering parent-coach dynamics, his own injury-prevention advice, expert contributors on nutrition and mental training, and parents' firsthand perspectives. He also marks Lower Extremity Review magazine's tenth anniversary, praising its evidence-based, multidisciplinary coverage of lower-extremity injuries under the tagline 'Collaborative Care for Better Outcomes,' before returning to welcome his second guest, Noah Perlis. Noah Perlis, A Lifelong Sprinter At 79 Weil welcomes back Noah Perlis, calling him a longtime radio colleague and founder of The Barter Strategist, and Perlis, turning 79 in two days, describes getting back into sprinting after college, finding Masters teams once he turned 40, and eventually setting a world relay record that earned him a place in Broyd's book. He specializes in the 200 meters, calling Broyd a 'thoroughbred' built for the 400 and 800 rather than short sprints, and recalling his own grueling experience running 400-meter hurdles, which he compares to an event 'designed by masochists for sadists.' Perlis credits Weil's running orthotics with transforming his sprinting shoes and urges listeners pursuing competitive age-group sport to get medical clearance first, since enthusiasm alone caused many pickleball injuries among untrained seniors. Both men discuss the mental side of competition, with Weil describing decades of teaching figure skaters visualization and the 'cone of silence' focus elite sprinters need before stepping to the line. The Barter Strategist Meets Health Skepticism After the break, Perlis explains the premise of his free e-book, The Hidden Economics of Barter, describing decades of bartering that began in the art world in Denver, where a cowboy's posters led to a five-way trade involving furniture, a hotel room, and a manufacturer client. He argues bartering is a hidden multi-billion-dollar economy peo