59: Andrew Wheating - Quality over Quantity

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

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🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Carrie interviews Olympian Andrew Wheating! Andrew talks about his decision to retire from professional running, his family, favorite memories from the Olympics, and his future plans.

Andrew Wheating

Andrew Wheating is from Norwich, Vermont. He ran for the University of Oregon Ducks from 2006-2010 where he won 3 individual NCAA championships (2x800, 1500) as well as 2 relay team NCAA championships (Indoor DMR). In 2008, at the age of 20, he qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games. He signed a professional contract with Nike where he went on to compete in the 2012 London Olympic Games (1500m). After running professionally for 7 years he opted for retirement in January of 2018. A lesser known achievement is that he has eaten 24 Reese's Cups in one sitting, some say he didn't have the stomach for twenty-five.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:12.1	Today I'm interviewing Andrew Weeding.
0:14.4	Andrew is a 2008 Olympian in the 800 meters and a 2012 Olympian in the 1500 meters.
0:20.8	Andrew ran for the Nike Oregon Track Club and recently announced his retirement from professional
0:25.0	running.
0:25.9	In this episode, we talk about how he started running, his retirement, and all his favorites
0:30.9	in the sport, favorite meals, favorite places to race, and his future plans.
0:35.6	Andrew is one of the most dynamic personalities in our sport,
0:38.3	and you guys need to get to know him. Let's get after it.
0:44.3	Is this the fourth most beautiful flip athlete? You know what it is, and my name is quattro to a lot
0:52.3	of people. Quatro, that's nice, like that. Oh my gosh. Isn't that funny? But you know what? We kind of have to put it up there because even if it's not true, like come on, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's freaking awesome. I'm not, I'm a no-hot athlete, so I'm well below that rank. So you're killing everyone. I don't think so. Have you seen your pictures on Instagram?
1:12.5	They're pretty dang cute, Andrew.
1:14.6	Oh, you stop that.
1:16.5	You know what's funny is we both had Mark Wetmore as an agent.
1:20.3	Oh, right.
1:20.9	And when I was voted that, the fourth, whatever, you know, I, we talked about it, he and I, and Rich Kanaugh, who helped me for years, and basically they said, run faster.
1:34.6	They didn't even care about it.
1:35.7	They were like, if you run faster, you'll get a lot more things because of it.
1:39.5	But, you know, just because a couple people thought that I maybe looked okay in a race or here or there,
1:45.0	they didn't think that really mattered.
1:46.4	Plus, I had spit on my face in the picture that they used.
1:50.7	So just letting you know.
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