443: Mercy Chelangat: I’m So Fired Up

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Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mercy Chelangat may be relatively new to the marathon, but she’s already making a major impact on the world stage. In just her latest breakthrough performance, Mercy ran an incredible 2:20 marathon to finish 4th at the Boston Marathon, firmly establishing herself among the sport’s elite. A professional runner for HOKA Northern Arizona Elite, Mercy built an outstanding collegiate career at University of Alabama, where she became a 2-time NCAA Champion, earned 9 All-American honors, and captured 8 SEC titles. In this episode, Mercy reflects on her journey from dominant collegiate athlete to rising marathon star, sharing the lessons she’s learned along the way and what continues to drive her forward. She also opens up about balancing training with the demands of family life, including raising her seven-year-old daughter while pursuing excellence on the global stage.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I want to take a moment to tell you about an incredible opportunity for all the female runners out there. And to help me introduce this, we are going to have the event director for the American Berkabiner Ski Foundation, Christy Mackie.
0:13.3	Hi, Carrie. How you doing? Tell us, tell our listeners what we have coming up.
0:17.9	We have a really amazing weekend long women's running camp up here in Hayward and
0:23.7	Cable, Wisconsin called Stride to Shee. You were with us there last year. It's coming up July 10th through 12th.
0:31.9	It's modeled after our popular ski to she weekend, except this time we're focusing on running in July instead of skiing
0:38.6	in January. Well, I have to say as a non-skier who attended ski-to-shee, I learned so much,
0:45.3	and I had such a blast. Yeah, it's a really great time and super motivating, and we are really
0:51.8	excited to bring that same experience to runners for the second
0:55.4	annual strideshi. Not only will we learn running technique, strength workouts, effective ways to
1:02.5	train, nutrition, but it's really three days of empowerment, connection, and community building.
1:08.2	Christy, last year I spoke, which I will definitely be running my mouth again,
1:11.8	as I always do. But we had some really cool experts that came up and shared some information.
1:17.1	Are we going to have that as well this year? We are. We have so many great women that are going to
1:21.7	be there talking from running gear to nutrition to injury prevention, lots of great details to share and they're
1:30.2	also motivating and you're not going to want to miss what they have to share with you awesome okay
1:35.1	how can they sign up uh you can go to berkey dot com and check out our run page and then stride to she
1:41.4	and you'll find all the details there. All right, ladies.
1:44.8	Well, it's your chance, not only to run with me,
1:47.0	but to connect with an awesome group of empowering women at Stride to Shee this July.
1:52.3	Head on over to Berkey.com.
1:54.0	That's B-I-R-K-I-E.com for details.
2:04.5	Thank you. for details. Hey everyone, I'm Olympian, Kerry Tallops, and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
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