124. NYT Journalist Lindsay Crouse on Investing in Women, Power, and Running Journalism

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A Senior Staff Editor and OpDocs producer at The New York Times, Lindsay Crouse's most-read and watched work includes:

Lindsay is one of the foremost voices for women in running, helping us better understand structural inequities that lead to gender inequality and power disparities in the sport.

After earning a history degree from Harvard University while competing in track and field and cross country, Lindsay moved to New York City and worked in a variety of editing and journalism awards before finally landing at The New York Times.

As a senior producer of OpDocs, she's produced memorable videos about the marathoner Memo and Walk, Run, Cha Cha (which earned a nomination for an Academy Award).

Lindsay is at the forefront of current affairs in the running world, highlighting how power is often unjustly wielded by the powerful against those with very little of it.

But she's not just a running journalist - she's a runner! And quite a fast one at that... just this past fall, she raced 2:53 at CIM, scoring a sub-3 marathon and improving on her PR by a massive 6 minutes.

In this conversation, Lindsay and I discuss her work, its real-world impact on the running community, and what draws her to these stories.

We also talk about:

The changing culture of distance running
Why representation matters, particularly for female athletes
How we shortchange women runners through coaching and science
Whether being a runner has helped her break these huge stories
Why so many runners consider quitting (but shouldn't)

Lindsay Crouse is someone to watch in the world of running. As a near-Olympic Trials Qualifier working for the "newspaper of record," breaking the biggest stories in running, she's an exciting figure in the industry.

This episode would not have been possible without Inside Tracker, who is offering a 10% discount on any of their tests with code strengthrunning.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.7	This is episode 124 with senior staff editor at the New York Times,
0:08.8	253 marathoner, and one of the most exciting journalists in the running space today is
0:14.1	Lindsay Kraus. Hey runners welcome back to the strength running podcast. I'm your host
0:28.0	Jason Fitzgerald and I'm excited to be here. I'm coming off the flu and a strained
0:34.3	ab muscle near my ribs from coughing so hard.
0:37.2	It's been a rough couple weeks, but I'm back to running.
0:41.0	I actually slipped on my run earlier this morning falling on some ice.
0:45.3	Banged up my knee pretty good but it should be fine. The only thing I really hurt
0:49.4	was my ego. Running can definitely be humbling sometimes but we are back and I couldn't be
0:55.8	more thrilled to share my conversation with Lindsay Krause with you she's
1:00.8	changing how the sport of running operates from inside of it but also as a
1:05.1	journalist breaking some of the biggest stories in sports today. If the name
1:09.9	Lindsay Kraus sounds familiar you've probably read some of her work. In fact, last year she was the first woman to win the George Hersch Journalism Award for coverage of distance running. She's a senior staff editor and OptDocks producer at the New York Times and her most
1:25.4	read and watched work includes how the Shalane Flanagan effect works.
1:29.9	Nike told me to dream crazy until I wanted a baby and I was the fastest girl in America
1:36.7	until I joined Nike. There are also even more links to her work, notes and social media profiles on the strength-running blog, so don't miss the article that accompanies this episode.
1:47.0	Lindsey is one of the foremost voices for women in running, helping us better understand structural inequities that lead to
1:56.2	gender inequality and power disparities in the sport.
1:59.8	She earned a history degree from Harvard University while competing in track and field in
2:03.9	cross country and her opinion documentary video Walk Run Chacha earned a nomination
2:09.5	for an Academy Award. I also just want to take a quick break and thank our sponsor Inside Tracker
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