About Chris
Author, OG Podcaster, Endurance Athlete & Entrepreneur
Hello my friends, welcome to my creative world! This site is one-stop-shop for all my projects.
It is an *interesting* combination of pursuits. I am at a point in my life where I can do whatever I want, and I choose to have fun with the creative side of my being!
I have produced a podcast on endurance sports since 2008 RunRunLive that led to myriad adventures across 20 years and 500+ episodes. I wrote for CoolRunning and created three books. I still train and race actively with my border collie Ollie and an army of running friends.
In 2020 I turned my attention to scratching a lifelong itch – writing apocalyptic science fiction. The result was the popular audio narrative podcast After the Apocalypse which finished its 5-season arc in 2025. I’m currently turning that narrative into a 5-book series.
I have pivoted that feed to a new concept, The Apocalypse Café, where I produce other authors narratives into story form.
Life aint always easy but it’s good to have a lot of fun projects cooking!
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Oho! Oho! Rise up, O Teti!
Take your head, collect your bones,
Gather your limbs, shake the earth from your flesh!
Take your bread that rots not, your beer that sours not,
Stand at the gates that bar the common people!
– Egyptian pyramid text
“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
– Isaac Asimov
Meet The Author
Chris Russell
Chris Russell is an entrepreneur, endurance athlete and creative who is the force behind the successful apocalyptic audio serial “After the Apocalypse”. Chris, (who’s nom de guerre is “Mad Dog”) Has been creating podcast magic since podcasting became a thing.
Started in 2020, After the Apocalypse has grown organically to hundreds of thousands of downloads, has completed its 5-season arc and is now being turned into a beautiful series of 5 books.
Chris is a serial creator and author who somehow squeezes time around running marathons and being a corporate executive to do what he really loves – create compelling fiction.