390: Sharon Lokedi - We’ve Made It

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Carrie welcomes back Sharon Lokedi, NCAA Champ and professional runner for Under Armour Mission Run Dark Sky Distance. Sharon, the 2022 NYCM Champion, has been on a streak, placing third in NY in 2023 and second at the 2024 Boston Marathon. Now, she adds Olympian to her achievements, having just been selected to the Kenyan team for Paris 2024. Sharon shares her journey to this exciting news, from being an alternate to stepping in due to an injury to Brigid Kosgei. She discusses her preparation, goals, race strategy, and the thrill of joining top athletes Hellen Obiri and Peres Jepchirchir on the Kenyan squad.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the C-Tolli-Run podcast. I'm your host, Olympian Kerry Tullifson, and today on the show, we welcome back Sharon Loughkelly-A champ. Sharon is an NCAA champ, a professional runner running for Under Arm mission run dark sky distance the 2022 new
0:22.1	york city marathon champion she was also third last fall in the new york city marathon in
0:26.8	twenty twenty three and then she came back and placed second at the boston marathon this past spring
0:32.1	in 2022 Sharon has been on a tear ever since she won the New York City Marathon in 2022, and now she
0:39.0	gets to call herself an Olympian. Sharon was just selected to the Kenyan team and will get her
0:43.9	shot to compete in Paris 2024. In this episode, we hear all about how Sharon was selected
0:49.3	to make her team. She was first alternate, but after an injury sustained by former marathon world record holder, Bridgett Kaskai,
0:56.4	Sharon gets to go.
0:58.2	She'll join New York City Marathon Champion and Boston Marathon Champion Helen O'Berry and reigning Olympic champion Paris Jepchechard.
1:06.2	We also hear about how her family reacted to the news, her goals and race strategy, and so much more.
1:12.9	We are super excited for Sharon and the rest of her team, so let's get after it.
1:21.3	So excited to have Sharon back on the show. Thank you so much, Sharon. You're still in Kenya,
1:25.7	right? Yes, yes. I'm still in Kenya.
1:28.1	And thank you for having me. Oh, you know, I love it. I couldn't hardly handle it. And I saw the
1:33.1	news that you were going to Paris. I'm like, oh my gosh, I got to get you back on the show. So
1:36.9	congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. It's been really fun. It's been so exciting. And I came back a few weeks ago,
1:48.2	and I've just been like trying to get in training and everything. So where have you been?
1:55.6	Actually, I've been in Kenya. I've been in Cup ticket for almost three weeks now. And so you said it's been rainy and
2:05.0	kind of cold there? Yeah, yeah. It's, it's rainy season. This is usually like month of July is usually like
2:12.1	the most like it just rains all through. So if you don't run, you usually run in the morning and then you do your double run earlier,
2:22.6	because if you don't run earlier, then you can't run in the afternoon.
2:25.8	And sometimes it just rains all day.
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