342: Jessi Gabriel and Ben Blankenship - Wave of Surgency
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Carrie chats with Jessi Gabriel and Olympian Ben Blankenship! They talk about the vision these two have for our sport, their latest projects called the Fast Forest and the Endless Mileage project, their new podcast called Call Room Banter, Ben’s training for the marathon this fall, Jess’s role in Ben’s training and what she is doing now within the sport, being the support crew for each other, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Have you registered for the Brave Like Gabe 5K this fall? Well, this is your reminder. |
| 0:07.0 | As many of you know, Gabe Grunold was and is still very near and dear to my heart. We lost Gabe |
| 0:12.5 | four years ago, but her legacy lives on in the Brave Like Gabe Foundation. And over the past five |
| 0:17.9 | years, the foundation has been able to fund more than $1.3 million in |
| 0:22.6 | rare cancer research. That's real science, bringing hope to cancer survivors, and it's exactly what |
| 0:27.8 | Gabe had intended. One of the ways the Brave Light Gabe Foundation is able to make these grants |
| 0:32.3 | is by hosting our annual 5K event that literally anyone anywhere can do. Please consider registering for this event. It's in September, you guys. It's coming up fast and use my discount code. See Talley Run for 10% off. Your registration and donations support rare cancer research and keep cancer survivors. Hashtag running on hope. Register again today at brave like Gabe.org. |
| 1:04.7 | Hi, I'm Olympian, Carrie Tellison, and welcome to the C-Tolli-Run podcast. |
| 1:10.3 | Today I have former CTR guest, fellow Minnesotan, and Olympian Ben Blankenship. |
| 1:12.4 | And we also have his partner, Jess Gabriel. Jess and I work together now, and it's been really fun getting to know her and learn more |
| 1:17.1 | about this power couple. Jess and Ben both have such passion for the sport. They both competed for |
| 1:22.6 | the University of Minnesota. Jess in the sprints and jumps, Ben in the middle distances. |
| 1:27.1 | Jess went on to coach at the University of Minnesota, and then she transitioned in her |
| 1:31.3 | current role in communications and marketing for various track and field and road racing events, |
| 1:37.0 | including the world championships last year in Eugene. |
| 1:39.8 | Ben is going from being a world-class miler to now a marathoner. |
| 1:43.9 | He's going to run his first |
| 1:44.7 | marathon this fall. They both are working super hard in this sport, and they're making this world |
| 1:49.5 | a better place because of it. In this episode, we hear all about the vision these two have |
| 1:54.3 | for our sport. Their latest projects called The Fast Forest and Endless Mileage Project, |
| 1:59.5 | their new podcast called Call Room Banter. |
| 2:02.5 | It's super fun. |
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