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Hi, I'm Olympic-Carie Talifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. This week we have

USATF 5K Road Champion and BAA elite athlete Annie Rodenfels. In this episode, we talk about her awesome race

at the New York Road Owners dash to the finish line 5K, which also piggyback to the USATF 5K Road

Championships.

We hear about her race tactics, that big move that she made in Central Park, her background in this sport, her training now and how she's seeing the benefits, getting married, coming

out this past fall, and how it's helped her feel a little bit more free and that she

hopes she can help someone like her if they

ever need it. We also hear about her goals for 2024. This was a really fun conversation and I hope

you enjoy getting to know Annie Rodenfels. So let's get after it. All right, Annie, you've got a lot of

fun things happening in your life right now, but it was an honor to be able to interview you after the 5K the other day.

So congratulations on the big win.

Thank you.

Yeah, it was very exciting and fun to be interviewed by you even just briefly.

Well, I was just loving watching you race the last mile of that.

NYR-R-R-Dash-Line 5K and USAATF 5K National Championships.

It's a long title.

But just seeing you, and I asked you this in the post-race interview,

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