46: Allie Kieffer - Game Changer

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Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

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🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Carrie interviews elite runner Allie Kieffer! They discuss her recent fifth place finish at the TCS NYC Marathon, where she set a huge PR. Allie also talks about running through grief and loss and her future racing plans.

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Allie Kieffer

Allie graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Psychology in June 2009. At Wake Forest, she competed on the cross country and track & field teams for four years and earned All-ACC honors in cross country in 2008 and was also selected as the ACC Runner of the Week in 2008. In 2012, Allie qualified for the US Olympic Trials in the 10,000m, but was unable to compete due to injury. In January 2016, Allie was the first place woman finisher at the Miami Marathon (2:55:30). Later that year, she set the indoor marathon world record at the The Fort Washington Avenue Armory Indoor Track Marathon in a time of 2:44:44 (the record was broken the following year). In 2017, Allie placed 4th at the USATF 10 Mile Championships (54:20) and went on to finish 5th at the TCS NYC Marathon (2:29:39). Allie lives and trains in Buffalo, New York.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. My guest today is Allie Kiefer.
0:13.4	Allie most recently finished fifth at the TCS New York City Marathon. And get this, it was only
0:18.6	her third marathon ever. I'm so excited to see what's in store for her next.
0:23.3	In this episode, we talk about running a 15-minute marathon PR, her training, and her heartbreak
0:28.5	and healing after losing her sister 10 years ago in a fatal car crash.
0:32.6	I didn't really know Allie before this interview, but today I feel like I learned so much about
0:36.6	her.
0:37.3	I believe that
0:38.1	America will be seeing her name for years to come. Let's get after it. Thanks for being on our
0:46.3	podcast. This is awesome. Yeah, thank you for having me. Yeah, what an awesome day you had at New York.
0:51.8	Oh my goodness. Fifth overall, second American in a huge PR. Are you still
0:57.6	flying high? You know what? I'm still not sleeping. Really? Yeah. I think my body's finally breaking down
1:04.6	though. But I just like wake up at 4.30 in the morning like wide-eyed and shocked that that actually
1:09.8	happened. Oh my gosh. So going into the race, let's just talk about this. We have a whole bunch stuff to talk about. And there's tons of articles because everybody's so excited for you. So a lot of people have already read about everything that happened that day. But let's just go into it real quick. So you're going into the race, hoping to PR, and we were going to try to run was it sub 233 or something like
1:30.1	that yeah so you really kind of were thinking about setting a huge PR regardless yeah so i i know it was
1:38.0	a 15 minute PR but i didn't train for a marathon before so i knew i was capable of running
1:43.4	faster than 244 i just didn't know how much faster before. So I knew I was capable of running faster than 244. I just didn't
1:46.0	know how much faster. So I kind of just like, you know, picked a time and did a lot of pace work in the
1:51.0	buildup and wanted to make sure that I didn't get carried away in the beginning. I went out conservative.
1:57.8	And you ran 229.39. Yeah, so it was a little more conservative than I realized. But I
2:04.4	wouldn't, I mean, there were very few things that would do differently. So obviously it was a huge
2:09.0	success. Yeah, let's talk with that. So you said you want to go conservative. So you ran 116-36 or something
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