175. You Can Run a Marathon with Meb Keflezighi

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Ali Feller

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4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

"The marathon is a metaphor for life. It’s about patience, and you get out of it what you put in it."

This is a very special episode of the You Can Run a Marathon series, because it was recorded live in front of a fantastic audience at Finish Line Physical Therapy in New York City. Meb Keflezighi is the only person to ever win the New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, and Olympic silver medal. Runner's World named him The Most Influential Person in Running, and he's the author of several books, including Meb for Mortals and 26 Marathons. On this episode, Meb reflects on his career on the run, talks about what he's learned about life and running and how they intersect, and shares whether there's any chance we might see him at the start line of the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in February. He also shares the story of getting a congratulatory phone call from President Obama after winning the 2014 Boston Marathon, and dining with the Obamas a few weeks later.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

What does it mean to Meb to “run to win?” And how does he keep going when the race is getting tough? (5:30)
Meb’s New York City Marathon-specific advice (13:25)
What are the keys to being able to run for life? (17:50)
Why the 2013 New York City Marathon was so special for local runner Mike Cassidy, who got to finish with Meb (22:00)
Why the marathon is a metaphor for life (26:20)
All about that post-Boston-win call from President Obama (28:30)
Why the marathon for Meb? (35:20)
On pre-race nerves and anxiety, mental training, and visualization (46:10)
What race week looks like for Meb (53:30)
Is there any chance we might see Meb at the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials?! (55:30)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You can run a marathon on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Generation You Can.
0:09.3	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this series is all
0:14.0	about helping you build your confidence so you can run your best strongest,
0:18.4	happiest marathon. So far on this series we've heard from five professional and elite
0:23.6	level athletes who have shared their own adventures in the 26.2 mile distance.
0:28.7	And today, well, today we are hearing from everyone's favorite marathoner.
0:33.9	Meb Kafleski is one of the greatest and most loved runners of our time.
0:38.4	Runners were all who's even named him the most influential person in running. And I'd
0:43.2	agree with that statement. Meb had a hugely successful professional running career. He became
0:48.4	the only person to ever win the New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, and Olympic Silver
0:54.1	Metal. He technically retired two years ago but he's certainly still on the run and he loves
0:59.8	talking running. It was really fun recording this episode with Meb live at Finish Line Physical
1:05.6	Therapy in New York City, along with Generation You Can. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us
1:10.8	for the show. It was so much fun and if you couldn't make it in person you're in luck because here it is.
1:18.8	All right everyone, well I want to thank you all for joining us here this afternoon. Really
1:28.3	excited for a very special live podcast taping. I know none of you are here to hear from me.
1:34.2	Everyone's here for Allie and Meb so we're not going to delay that much further.
1:38.1	But just wanted to take a really quick moment to introduce myself and more importantly you can.
1:43.6	So we've been really having a fun time working with Allie for any of you guys that are regular
1:47.8	listeners of her podcast on our You Can Run a Marathon series. So we're featuring the stories of
1:54.4	several of our You Can athletes as well as some coaches and experts each week on The Allie on
1:59.3	the Run Show to tell you guys everything you want to know about marathon training gets you to really
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