48: Michelle Lilienthal - Going Out Slow, Finishing Hard
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🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Carrie goes for a run with elite marathoner and former Team USA Minnesota member Michelle Lilienthal! They chat about the importance of training partners, taking time off training and Michelle's move to Portland, Maine.
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Michelle Lilienthal
Michelle is a four-time US Olympic Marathon trials qualifier, most recently qualifying for the 2020 trials at the 2017 Chicago Marathon. She is a former member of Team USA Minnesota and ran some her best races on Minnesota soil, including her marathon PR, 2:34 at the Twin Cities Marathon, and her half marathon PR, 1:11 at the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth. She currently lives in Portland, Maine with her fiancé, Marc, and cat, Squeaks. She works for Apple Inc. and is loving life running on the coast of Maine as a semi retired serious hobby racer.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sea Talley Run is brought to you by Kind Snacks. |
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| 0:17.0 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tellafson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | My guest today is Michelle Lillianthal. |
| 0:27.1 | Michelle is a four-time Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier and a former member of Team USA, Minnesota. |
| 0:33.2 | She's also one of my good friends and training partners. |
| 0:36.7 | She currently lives in Portland, Maine, but it was great to catch up while she was back in Minnesota. |
| 0:41.5 | In this episode, we go for a run and talk about the importance of taking time off of training, |
| 0:46.1 | supporting your training partners, and how she got into professional running. |
| 0:50.1 | Let's get after it. |
| 0:54.3 | Okay, Michelle, you're here in Minnesota back visiting, and it's, we're here at Old Dark 30, |
| 1:01.3 | and we have mics on like Britney Spears, and you're on the podcast. |
| 1:06.9 | Are you so pumped? |
| 1:08.2 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:08.9 | Like, I am so excited because this is, like, like, fourth or fifth see Tali Run interview. |
| 1:13.9 | So I am feeling like I'm kind of like an MVP. |
| 1:17.3 | Well, you know, we kind of wanted to do a coffee talk with you, like a weekly show on fashion and, you know, all the inside scoop of the running world. |
| 1:26.8 | Well, I usually, I do kind of feel like I am your, like, fashion insider because I get |
| 1:33.6 | text pictures of, like, your red jeans from 2005 asking if you should keep those or recycle them. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah, you did, and I'm wearing them. |
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