38: Jen Rhines - Keep the Perspective
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🗓️ 5 October 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Carrie interviews 3-time Olympian and fellow Villanova alum Jen Rhines! Jen discusses mental toughness, eating nourishing food and racing as a masters. Carrie and Jen also reminisce about their days of training and racing together.
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Jen Rhines
Jen attended Villanova University, where she was a five-time NCAA champion. Jen is a 5-time national champion and 11-time world champion team member. She competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics (10000m), 2004 Athens Olympics (marathon) and 2008 Beijing Olympics (5000m). Jen has been tearing up the roads as a masters runner and holds US masters records in the 5000m (15:45) and 10000m (33:05). She is an Adidas athlete and ambassador. Jen is married to Terrence Mahon, and resides in San Diego, CA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the Sea Talley Run podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | My guest today is Jen Rines. |
| 0:13.2 | Jen and I go way back as she's also a Villanova alumni. |
| 0:16.4 | Go Nova! |
| 0:17.4 | She represented the U.S. in three Olympic games competing in the 10,000 meters, 5,000 meters, and marathon. |
| 0:24.5 | In this episode, we talk about being a master's superstar, coaching Carly Klaus, and how she eats to win, but still has it taste good. |
| 0:33.6 | And I tell a story about how Jen made me run so fast that I peed my pants during a race. Yes, people, I tell you about it. So let's get after it. All right, Jen, thanks so much for joining me on my podcast. I've been wanting to do this a long time, but last week you and I were texting and I said, let's just do it because I haven't |
| 0:54.3 | talked to you for so long. So how are you doing? I'm doing great. Yeah, thanks for having me and I'm excited to catch up. Where are you right now? I'm in San Diego. Okay. So you guys, no, just fill me in. You had a place there when you were training. Do you have a new place or are you renting? We're renting an apartment. |
| 1:12.2 | Okay. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes. |
| 1:12.9 | We have a place there when you were training do you have a new place or are you renting we |
| 1:10.8 | renting an apartment okay yes we we have a place in mammoth that we kept that we use for doing |
| 1:17.3 | altitude training and just to go out and visit but we we don't have our san diego place anymore yeah |
| 1:22.0 | i thought you sold that so i came out here when we decided um we were going to move back west at the end of the year, |
| 1:28.4 | myself and my little pug dog star came out and cut his apartment to start off with. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:34.2 | So Terrence is still in Boston. |
| 1:35.8 | He is in Boston, yes. |
| 1:37.4 | Okay. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, I saw some of the BAA girls this weekend when they were racing here in Minnesota. |
| 1:42.9 | Right, yes. |
| 1:43.7 | They were saying he was still there, but I didn't know where you were. Yes. So he's in Boston. So we've been doing a bit of the long distance thing. But we'll have, I have a lot of East Coast trips coming up. So we'll actually get to be spending a little more time together over the next month. Oh my gosh. Okay. So you are a three-time Olympian. You have traveled the world. You've lived everywhere, not in the Midwest, but you've lived on East Coast and the West Coast. I haven't lived near you, exactly. No. Your parents had a place in Florida. So you spent a little time down, you know, in the southern part of the country, I guess. |
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