36: Jenny Simpson - Embracing It
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🗓️ 21 September 2017
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Carrie interviews Olympian and World Champion Jenny Simpson! Jenny discusses her sister's deployment to Iraq, her new her new role as an ambassador for the New York Road Runners and her future racing aspirations.
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Jenny Simpson
Jenny attended Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida where she was an 8-time State Champion and set 4 state records. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where she set NCAA records in the mile, 3000m steeplechase and 5000m (outdoors). During her time at the University of Colorado, she qualified for the 2008 US Olympic Team in the Steeplechase. Jenny has represented the United States in three Olympic Games, 2008 (steeplechase), 2012 (1500m) and 2016 (1500m). She earned a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, becoming the first American woman to medal in the 1500m. Jenny is also an 11-time USA track and field champion a 3-time World Championship medalist in the 1500m. Jenny lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband Jason and runs for New Balance.
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| 0:27.8 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Telethson and welcome to the SeaTalry Run podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | My guest today is Jenny Simpson. |
| 0:34.3 | Jenny is a three-time Olympian and earned a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic |
| 0:37.8 | Games in the 1500 meters. She also has three World Championship 1500 meters medals, including a gold |
| 0:43.3 | from 2011, a silver from 2013, and most recently she won the silver in 2017. In this episode, |
| 0:50.7 | Jenny recapped her summer. She discussed her sister's deployment to Iraq, her new |
| 0:55.2 | role as the ambassador for the New York Roadrunners, and she talked about her future racing plans, |
| 1:00.7 | and it might not be the 1500. So let's get after it. So you're back in the States. Yes, I'm finally |
| 1:10.6 | home. |
| 1:11.0 | It feels like it was like a long, a long go to get this far. |
| 1:15.2 | And then the very last leg from New York to Denver, we had some travel issues. |
| 1:21.8 | And it took us like 10 hours to get home. |
| 1:23.5 | And I kept telling Jason, it's like the universe doesn't want my season to be over. |
| 1:27.9 | But there's nothing left, really. I'm done. People, just let me go home. Well, let's talk about |
| 1:34.9 | your year. So, you know, obviously it's a world championship year. You went over and represented us |
| 1:40.4 | in the best way possible again by getting another medal at the world championship. |
| 1:44.4 | Your third medal at the world championships and you also are an Olympic bronze medalist. |
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