400. Emily Infeld, Professional Runner

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

“I’m a bit bummed with how it went, but that’s why I want to get back into more racing. I know I’m fitter than that showcased, and I want to just have fun with racing, because the Olympics are obviously the pinnacle of our sport, but I think there’s so much more aside from that. So I want to have fun with all that, and do what I love, and not feel like because I didn’t make this team it was a failure of a year or I’m a failure of an athlete.”

Emily Infeld arrived at the start line for this year's U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials 10K last month with an impressive running resumé. She's a professional runner with the Bowerman Track Club, specializing in the 5K and 10K. She's a 2016 Olympian and a 2015 World Championships bronze medalist. But along the way, Emily has also been plagued with injuries — one major injury, she says, for every year of her professional career. In spite of injuries, surgeries, and setbacks, Emily has persevered and built immeasurable mental toughness along the way. So when she got to Hayward Field, she had one goal: Make another Olympic team. Unfortunately, like all but three of the athletes that day, Emily didn't finish in the top three, and missed out on this year's Team USA. On this episode, she recaps the long road to the Trials, breaks down that hot race in heartbreaking detail, and talks about what's next.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

On racing the 1500m for the first time in eight years (4:30)
Has running always been fun for Emily? (7:50)
On racing in all this heat lately (9:10)
Working on execution vs. focusing on time (13:00)
The intimidation factor, and relationships in running (15:55)
All about wedding planning! (22:00)
On working with Shalane Flanagan as both a teammate and coach (26:00)
Emily’s road to the 2021 Olympic Track & Field Trials (31:30)
The 10K race plan, and how the race played out (50:45)
How Emily recovered emotionally from the Trials, and what’s next (59:20)
What Emily’s been whipping up in the kitchen (1:03:15)

What we mention on this episode:

Shalane Flanagan on Episode 242 of the Ali on the Run Show

Emily Sisson on Episode 394 of the Ali on the Run Show

Karissa Schweizer & Elise Cranny on Episode 395 of the Ali on the Run Show

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks.
0:04.2	Go to ontherun.aftershocks.com to save 15% on all wireless headphones.
0:14.8	Welcome to episode 400 of The Alley on the Run Show. I am your host, Allie Feller,
0:21.2	and every week I talk with people who are doing cool things on the run and beyond.
0:26.0	We all share that love for running here, and that's what brings us all together.
0:29.8	But of course, you know that there is more to life than what happens on the run itself,
0:34.8	and this show is about the in-between. The water stops, the bathroom breaks,
0:39.4	the moments and decisions that have shaped who we are today, and the wise.
0:43.6	Why do we do what we do, and how does getting sweaty factor in?
0:47.9	Today, I am thrilled to welcome professional track and field runner Emily Infeld to the show.
0:54.7	Emily lives in Portland, Oregon, where she trains with Nike's powerman track club.
0:58.9	She's a 2016 Olympian in the 10K and a 2015 World Championships bronze medalist.
1:05.1	Emily has had a pretty incredible career in spite of a long list of injuries,
1:10.4	and surgeries, and setbacks. Emily's road to this year's Olympic track and field trials was not
1:15.9	an easy one, and you'll get a really good sense of her mental toughness in this episode.
1:21.0	Emily ultimately did not have the race that she wanted at Hayward Field last month.
1:25.6	She was, of course, hoping to make another Olympic team and to get to represent
1:29.2	Team USA in the 10,000 meters in Tokyo, but that heat hit her hard, and she wasn't able to stay
1:35.6	at the front of the race. Emily breaks it all down in pretty heartbreaking detail on this episode,
1:40.8	and I promise this conversation will tug at your heartstrings at every turn.
1:45.8	I felt warm fuzzies, I cried, I laughed, like any episode of Shits Creek.
1:50.4	This conversation hit at every emotion, including ones I didn't even know I had.
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