33: Amy Cragg - Keep Moving Forward

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Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Carrie interviews two-time Olympian Amy Cragg! Amy reflects on her bronze medal finish at the 2017 World Championships in the marathon. She also discusses training with the Bowerman Track Club and coach Jerry Schumacher, and her racing plans for 2018.

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Amy Cragg

Amy is a two-time U.S. Olympian. She placed second in her debut marathon in 2011, and her time of 2:27:03 made her the eighth-fastest American marathoner of all time. In 2012, Amy finished fourth at the U.S. marathon trials, one place out of a team spot, but months later won the Olympic Trials 10,000-meter race. At the 2012 London Olympics, after a strong first half, Hastings went on to run 31:10.69, placing 11th. In 2014, Amy won the national 10K road title at the Peachtree Road Race on July 4, and capped her year by running 2:27:03 to tie her PR and place fifth at the Chicago Marathon. In February 2016, she won the Olympic Marathon Trials. Six months later in Rio, she placed ninth in the Olympic marathon. Amy finished third at the 2017 World Championships in the marathon. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Irish Olympian Alistair Cragg. Amy trains with the Bowerman Track Club.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by State of Run.
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0:19.6	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the Sea Talley Run podcast.
0:26.1	My guest today is Amy Craig.
0:28.2	Amy is a two-time Olympian and in this episode we talk about her recent world championship bronze medal in the marathon.
0:34.8	We also chat about the mental and physical aspects of marathon racing and what
0:39.1	it's like to train under world-renowned coach Jerry Schumacher. Let's get after it.
0:47.4	Congratulations. Oh, thank you. John's medal at the World Championship's first American in 34 years. What does that feel like?
0:56.8	Oh, it's incredible. It's just, it's a dream come true. It really is. It's something I've been
1:02.0	working so hard for for a really long time. And there were definitely moments where I thought
1:08.1	nothing like that could ever happen, but just kept working. And so
1:12.4	now that it finally has happened, it's just amazing. And it's kind of made me more driven and more
1:19.6	confident in my running and just makes me want to keep moving forward. Oh, my goodness. It was so fun,
1:25.4	like seeing you, well, I loved watching you race, but I just
1:30.4	loved watching you on your interview afterwards. It was such a raw, like, so happy. Like, you just
1:37.0	don't really get to see someone that excited and you are so good to talk. I don't know how long
1:41.9	after it was that you did the interview with like on YouTube
1:46.0	or whatever it is. It's on it was on let's run as well. But it was it just seemed like you were just
1:51.4	so elated and so excited and kind of surprised. I was. It was something. So Jerry was the one who
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