693. Fiona O'Keeffe, 2024 Olympic Marathon Trials Competitor

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

"I wouldn't say I'm a favorite in a lot of peoples' eyes. But it's the Trials. We're here to select a team. So I'm going to go for it and see what happens."

Happy Olympic Trials Week! This Saturday, the fastest distance runners in the U.S. will line up in Orlando, FL, racing for their chance to represent Team USA in the marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Among those runners will be Fiona O'Keeffe, making her debut at the distance. Fiona runs professionally for Puma, and trains with the Puma Elite coaches Amy and Alistair Cragg. Fiona qualified for the Trials by running a 1:11 half marathon, and now she's ready to see what she can do over the course of 26.2 miles. In this episode, Fiona talks about her training, about the advice Amy Cragg (who won the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials) has given her, and about her recovery from a staph infection in her ankle last summer.

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What you'll get on this episode:

Race week! Fiona shares how she's feeling just days away from the Trials (1:50)
Was Fiona's plan to debut in the marathon at the Trials? (5:10)
What Fiona's Trials training looked like, including her favorite and least favorite workouts (10:00)
On pressure — internal and external (17:20)
The ankle injury that sidelined Fiona last summer (18:45)
Fiona's visualization plans, and what the week before the Trials entails (27:25)
Why Fiona chose to train with Amy and Alistair Cragg (31:10)
Noise vs. hype (34:20)
All about the runners in Fiona's family (36:30)
What it might look like to continue competing on both the track and the roads (41:50)
Fiona's pre-race must-dos (44:50)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host
0:07.1	Ali feller and every week I talk with people who are doing
0:10.4	exciting things on the run and beyond.
0:13.4	From professional athletes and celebrity runners
0:16.0	to the everyday amateur and back of the pack runner,
0:19.3	we are here to celebrate everyone and anyone
0:22.1	who enjoys a life on the run.
0:24.0	Whether you are running towards something big or away from something
0:28.0	that's been holding you back, I am here to help you pick up the pace.
0:32.0	The Olympic Marathon Trials episodes
0:34.2	continue. My guest today is Fiona O'Keefe.
0:37.8	Theona is a Puma-sponsored professional athlete who trains with the Puma
0:42.1	Elite Running Group in North Carolina where she is coached by Amy and Alistair Craig.
0:47.0	Pionna will be making her marathon debut at the trials.
0:51.0	She qualified for the trials by running a fast enough half marathon and this weekend
0:56.1	will be her first go at double that distance. When we recorded, Fiona had just arrived in Orlando to start to acclimate to the heat and
1:04.1	humidity that will await runners on race day. We hear about how her training
1:08.5	went, how she's feeling heading into the trials, and how she came back from a nasty injury last year, a
1:14.8	staff infection in her ankle.
1:17.0	Fiona comes to the marathon with a super successful background on the track and
1:21.4	on the roads and now we get to see what she can do with
1:25.0	26.2. Please join me in welcoming Fiona O'Keefe to the Alley on the Run show. on the run show I am so excited and honored to get to chat with you really soon
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