Hey everyone, I'm Olympian Kerry Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. Today on the show,

I'm so excited to have Kira Damado back on. It's been a while since we chatted, so I wanted to catch

back up with her. Kira is a mom, a wife, a business owner, a real estate agent,

and on top of all of that, she runs 100-plus mile weeks as a professional runner for Nike.

She currently is the American record holder for the 10 miles

and has held at one point in her career the American records for both the marathon

and the half-marathon here in the U.S.

Kira ran for American University and has been running for 25 years.

In this episode, we hear all about a couple of big announcements that just have come out.

She talks about a big move where she's moving out to West Coast to train under two-time

Olympian Ed Istone in Utah.

And the second one is committing and running the Chicago Marathon this October 24. Kira has been on a tear the past few years with lots

of ups, but some downs as well. She's learned a lot about herself and the sport. I hope you enjoy this

episode. I learned so much every time I hear from Kira. So let's get

after it. All right, Kira, you're back. It's so much fun. Stop happening. I can't wait to chat.

So thank you for taking a little time. Carrie, I love any excuse to hang out with you. So I am pumped to be talking to it. I mean, I seriously think we still need to just do this podcast together. Remember, like a couple years ago, we were like, let's just do one together and then it never happened. I know. I'm like, I'm in. Just tell me where to be and win, and I'm in. Can you even handle one more thing on your plate? Seriously?

Probably not, but I, you know what I can handle?

Saying, get after it.

There you go.

Every single time.

I know.

I love it.

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