158: Sam Chelanga - Gotta Give It a Try

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Running, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.7 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Carrie chats with 5-time USATF Champion Sam Chelanga! They discuss his return to running, his career as an officer in the US Army, and how he is chasing his Olympic dreams at the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials.

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0:00.0	On February 29th, 2020, America's top distance runners will hit the streets of Atlanta for the race of a lifetime at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon.
0:09.2	Not only can you be there to watch as part of America's Marathon Weekend, you can cross the same finish line the following day by running the public's Atlanta Marathon, Half Marathon, or 5K on Sunday, March 1st.
0:22.4	Join me in Atlanta for America's Marathon Weekend and register for the race at Atlanta
0:27.0	Track Club.org slash carry and use discount code carry that's C-A-R-R-I-E to get 10% off your
0:34.6	registration. Oh, and if you're there, you guys should come over to the Atlanta
0:38.7	Track Club's Health and Fitness Expo on Friday, February 28th, right at noon. I will be doing a live
0:44.9	podcast with, get this, probably one of the greatest runners ever, 215 marathoner and Olympian
0:51.5	Paula Radcliffe, also two-time Olympic hurdle champion Gail Divers,
0:57.2	and Olympian and three-time world champion shot putter John Godina. These three all competed in the
1:03.6	Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 and will be taking the stage for the first time together. Learn from
1:10.0	Paula Radcliffe herself about what it takes
1:11.8	to run the half and full marathon. Also, hear how Gail Devers and John Gideenah will turn in their
1:17.9	spikes and the shot put to tackle 13.1 miles at the public's half marathon on Sunday. So again,
1:25.4	see you at the Expo for a live podcast on February 28th at 12 p.m. Sharp.
1:37.4	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tali Run podcast. Today I catch back up
1:42.8	with Sam Shalanga. Sam was on the C-Tali Run podcast. Today I catch back up with Sam Shalanga. Sam was on the C-Tali Run YouTube
1:46.1	channel four years ago and lots has changed. Sam is now a second lieutenant U.S. Army
1:52.4	platoon leader. He's a father of three and recently came out of professional running retirement
1:57.9	to chase his Olympic dreams at the Olympic marathon trials later this
2:01.6	month. Sam is an NCAA champion, still the NCAA 10,000 meter record holder, and he's a five-time
2:09.5	USATF road champion. In this episode, we talk about Sam coming back to the sport, running very
2:15.7	fast off of what he calls being a weekend warrior,
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