696. My 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon Weekend Recap
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"Seeing how many people flew down to Florida on a random weekend in February to cheer for total strangers… How cool is that?!"
I had the best weekend in Orlando at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon — running around Lake Eola with friends, attending the elite athlete press conference, hosting a Best Running Friends meetup, going on shakeout runs, and, of course, cheering for all of the runners during Saturday's race. This is my recap from the weekend.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Why I went to the Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando (1:00)
- Friday: a morning run, wise words from Deena Kastor, the elite athlete press conference, an impromptu Best Running Friends meetup, a shakeout run, and a weird sushi dinner (9:00)
- Saturday: race day! (34:10)
- Final takeaways (51:50)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Allie on the Run Show. I'm your host Ali Feller and every week I talk with people who are doing exciting things on the run and beyond. |
| 0:13.3 | At least that's normally the case today, just me and you. |
| 0:17.5 | I hope that's okay because I am here to recap all things |
| 0:21.3 | 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon weekend. |
| 0:26.2 | I had the absolute best time down in Orlando. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm so happy that I got to be there, so happy that I chose to to be there and I'm going to break it all |
| 0:34.0 | down for you I love doing these after big event weekends so that I can try to |
| 0:37.7 | remember everything that happened so that's the whole intro here is my recap of the 2024 Olympic Marathon trials in Orlando. All right, we're following the usual format here, a day-by-day breakdown of everything that I did during the Olympic |
| 1:01.0 | Marathon Trials Weekend. So if you recall in that episode that I did about sharing everyone's best advice you've ever received, |
| 1:10.0 | which I loved by the way the feedback on that episode was amazing. |
| 1:13.7 | That seemed to resonate with a lot of people. |
| 1:16.4 | So thanks to everyone who contributed. |
| 1:18.6 | That one, I think that's going to be an annual listen for me. |
| 1:22.1 | A lot of good reminders in there. |
| 1:23.1 | So in that episode, I talked about how I really |
| 1:26.3 | wanted to get this job on the broadcast, |
| 1:28.1 | which I'll talk more about in a couple different ways |
| 1:30.5 | later in this episode. |
| 1:35.2 | But at the time, I knew I didn't get that job and so I wasn't sure if I was even going to go to the trials |
| 1:38.0 | but ultimately I decided I couldn't not be there. |
| 1:41.8 | This weekend would be a celebration of everything that I do in my career. |
| 1:47.6 | Like it's the pinnacle. The trials is such a big deal. It's so exciting and I feel so fortunate to have this job where I get to |
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