702. Run Your Way with Jackie Gaughan

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"I think about when I was a kid and I would just go out and run hard and not worry about the result or what was the worst thing that could happen. I run my best when I run with the same mindset I had when I was 12."

Jackie Gaughan qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials in her very first marathon. At 24 years old, she was the 18th-fastest qualifier in the field. (Her PR is a 2:27 from the 2023 Berlin Marathon.) In this conversation, Jackie talks about going from being an anxiety-riddled runner at Notre Dame to a four-time marathoner who finished 25th at the Trials. She talks about how running fits into her life as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, about her oldest daughter tendencies (she's the oldest of four), and about racing with a Jackie Mindset.

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What you'll get on this episode:

All about Jackie's run today (1:45)
Jackie's decision not to run this year's Boston Marathon (2:45)
What Jackie's job entails, and how she fits running in (5:00)
How it felt going into the Trials as the 18^th-fastest qualifier (7:00)
What it means to run with a Jackie Mindset (8:00)
How and why Jackie became a runner (9:35)
On dealing with race-related and running-related anxiety (14:15)
Why Jackie decided to move up to the marathon after college (16:10)
What Jackie's Trials training was like (18:05)
What it was like in Orlando leading up to the Trials (23:25)
On making the decision to walk during the race (28:00)
How Jackie got through the toughest parts of the race, and what the finish line experience was like (34:00)
What running looks like for Jackie right now (38:00)
What it means to run the Jackie Gaughan way (41:00)

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0:00.0	This episode of the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by New Balance.
0:04.1	Go to New Balance.com slash running to shop all of New Balance's latest arrivals for the season. Welcome to the Alley on the Run show.
0:17.0	I'm your host, Ali Feller, and I just cannot stop talking about the Olympic marathon trials. I know they were like a month ago
0:25.5	exactly a month ago as of when I'm recording this but I am still so hopped up on
0:30.2	all of the amazing stories from the athletes who competed down in Orlando, and today I am bringing you the story of Jackie Gond.
0:38.0	Jackie is a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. She is 24 years old and she is a 227 marathoner.
0:45.0	Jackie came into the trials as the 18th fastest seed.
0:50.0	She ended up running a 2.34 finishing in 25th place on the day.
0:54.5	We'll talk all about what the race looked like,
0:57.2	how she feels about those results,
0:58.7	and how she got to the finish line on a pretty tough day.
1:01.9	I wanted to talk to Jackie for a few reasons.
1:03.8	One, I think it's awesome that she's 24 years old and already competing at the Olympic
1:07.6	Marathon trials. Also, she's from New Hampshire. She's one of our local girls so of course I wanted to hear from her and spread that New Hampshire pride.
1:16.4	So please join me in welcoming Jackie Gawn to the Alley on the run show. All right, she lives in Boston. All right, she lives in Boston now, but to me, you're a fellow New Hampshire girl, Jackie Ghan.
1:36.2	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. Thank you so much for being here.
1:39.5	How are you doing today?
1:41.1	I'm good. Thank you for having the alley. All right, so we are talking on a
1:45.5	Sunday at 6 p.m. Did you run today? I did. All right, let's hear about your run. What kind of run was on tap for today?
1:54.2	Today was just an easy run. I met up with two of my good friends and
2:00.0	Ransom Miles on the Charles which pretty much just like any other someday and it's an unusually
2:05.7	warm day here in Boston it was like 45 so a bit of a treat.
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