748. Karissa Schweizer, Two-Time Olympian & 2024 Fifth Avenue Mile Champion

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Ali Feller

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4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

"Sometimes you need to just shut your brain off and run."

At this time last year, Karissa Schweizer was undergoing foot surgery. Then, as she mounted her comeback heading into an Olympic year, she faced another setback: a femoral stress fracture. But as we know, the comeback is always greater than the setback, and Karissa proved that by racing both the 5000m and the 10,000m at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials on her home turf at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR, making the team in both distances. She went on to finish in the top 10 in both events at the Paris Olympic Games. Karissa's season didn't end there: She went on to race the 5000m at the Zurich Diamond League, she raced (and won!) the Fifth Avenue Mile, and she ran a season's best in the 5000m at the Diamond League Final in Brussels. Now, the two-time Olympian, Nike-sponsored athlete, and longtime Bowerman Track Club member is back in Oregon for some much-deserved downtime, and back on the Ali on the Run Show to catch us up on all of it.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

Where in the world is Karissa Schweizer? (2:40)
How Karissa approaches her training breaks (4:30)
High school nerves vs. Olympics nerves (7:30)
How Karissa’s body is feeling after a big season of racing, and how she approached her comeback after multiple injuries (9:50)
On having the confidence to line up at the Trials (20:25)
What Karissa’s training was like this year (22:00)
How Karissa has handled the changing landscape of the Bowerman Track Club over the past few years (26:40)
Karissa’s experience at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games (30:45)
“Is Karissa Schweizer a miler?” (37:25)
How Karissa is processing her season (44:00)
Karissa’s advice for improving your running confidence (49:40)
What’s intriguing right now? (54:10)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Ali Feller and on every episode I talk with people who are doing exciting things on the run and beyond.
0:13.8	From professional athletes and celebrity runners to the everyday amateur and back of the
0:18.9	pack runner, we are here to celebrate everyone and anyone who enjoys a life on the run.
0:24.2	Whether you are running towards something big or away from something that's been
0:28.0	holding you back, I am here to hold your hand and help you pick up the pace.
0:31.8	Today we are going back to the Paris
0:34.7	Olympic Games recaps and then some. My guest today is Carissa Schweizer.
0:39.7	It has been a minute since Carissa's been on the show and what a minute it has been for some brief background
0:46.8	Carissa is a two-time Olympian who lives in Oregon where she is a member of the Bowerman Track Club and is coached by Jerry Schumacher and Chilane
0:54.0	Flanagan.
0:55.0	Last fall, Carissa had to undergo surgery for Hagelin's deformity in her foot.
0:59.6	She started her comeback heading into an Olympic year and then got injured this time with a
1:04.9	femoral stress reaction. Another massive setback getting closer and
1:09.4	closer to the trials. But Carissa was smart. She timed the comeback just right and it has been such a comeback.
1:16.8	Carissa competed at the track and field trials this summer and on her home turf in
1:20.8	Eugene she made the team in both the 5,000 meters and the 10,000.
1:25.5	Carissa finished in the top 10 in both events at the Olympics.
1:30.2	And her season did not stop there.
1:32.2	She went to Zurich to race the 5,000.
1:34.1	Then went right from that Diamond League meet to New York City where she ran and won the 5th Avenue mile.
1:40.0	Then, right back on a plane to race the 5,000 meters at the Diamond League final in Brussels.
1:46.2	Lots to recap, and so good to catch up with Carissa, who is now back in Portland.
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