421: Gracie Morris - If I Fight The Doubt, I'm There
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Meet Gracie Morris: A Puma professional runner, TCU track legend, and brand-new National Champion. During her collegiate career at Texas Christian University, Gracie shattered seven school records and just claimed her first national title at the USATF 2K XC Championships, and she's taking us inside every thrilling moment of that championship run. From the spikes on her feet to the mental battles in her head to the pure joy of her victory celebration, Gracie reveals what it really takes to win at the highest level. But she's not stopping there. Next, she'll pull on the USA jersey to compete as part of a four-person co-ed relay team at the World XC Championships. Beyond the podium, Gracie opens up about her Texas roots and how she fell in love with running, what it's like having a twin brother who's also a professional runner and what she loves to do when she's not logging miles. Gracie's warm personality and infectious laugh will have you lacing up your shoes and ready to chase your own finish line.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Olympian Carrie Tolveson and welcome to the C-Taly Run podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | This week on C-Talry Run, we bring you Gracie Morris. |
| 0:14.8 | Gracie is a Pula professional runner. |
| 0:17.0 | She went to Texas Christian University where she set seven school records. |
| 0:21.5 | And maybe the most exciting thing that's happened so far in her career is she just won her first |
| 0:26.5 | USATF national cross-country championship, her first national championship across the board. |
| 0:32.0 | And she's going to represent the U.S. at the World Cross Country Championships in January in Florida with three others. |
| 0:39.7 | She's on the four by two teams. So two males and two females will be racing there, and Gracie is one of them. |
| 0:45.5 | We get to hear all about her race, all about how she got into the sport, her college years, now as a pro, putting in the work, gaining confidence, and having so much fun. |
| 0:56.7 | So, let's get after it. |
| 1:01.1 | Gracie, welcome to see Tali Ron. |
| 1:03.9 | You are a national champion in heading to the world cross country. |
| 1:08.4 | Like, how excited are you right now? |
| 1:11.2 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:12.1 | I still like, I don't think I processed it. |
| 1:14.9 | My coach was talking to me yesterday and he's like, how do you feel? |
| 1:17.6 | And I was like, the same? |
| 1:20.5 | I mean, it's been, it was such an awesome race. |
| 1:24.6 | Like, from the very get-go. |
| 1:26.9 | So we had three women that we highlighted at the top |
| 1:30.3 | of the show. And I could not wait for the gun to go off because I was like, my pick is Gracie |
| 1:37.2 | Morris. I don't know how much. I haven't gone back and watched it, but I was like, I don't know. |
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