79: Heather Kampf - Reinvent Myself
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🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Carrie goes for a run with Queen of the Road Mile, Heather Kampf! Heather discusses the frustrations and challenges of dealing with injuries and how she's easing back into running. She also talks about her 2018 racing plans, and her aspirations after the sport.
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Heather Kampf
Heather is a 2005 graduate of Rosemount High School in Minnesota where her prep career included state titles in the 800m and 400m. At the University of Minnesota, Heather was the highest decorated Gopher women’s track athlete. She was a 9-time All American, NCAA champion, and the only Gopher to compete in every NCAA championship in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track during the time she attended the university. Heather joined Team USA Minnesota in December of 2009, was sponsored by Asics America in 2010, and became a Nuun elite ambassador in 2014. As a professional runner, she has raced in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 olympic trials (7th in the 800m in 2012), is a 4x USA 1 mile champion (2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and was a finalist for Team USA at the word indoor championships 1500m in 2014.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | Today I'm going for a run with Heather Camp. |
| 0:13.8 | Heather competes for Team USA, Minnesota and is a four-time USATF one-mile road champion, earning her nickname, |
| 0:20.5 | Queen of the Road Mile. In this episode, |
| 0:23.3 | Heather discusses the challenges and frustrations of dealing with injuries, her fall racing plans, |
| 0:28.6 | and her long-term career goals. Let's get after it. All right, Heather, are you ready for this? |
| 0:36.8 | I sure am. First time doing the running interview, OSC, top you ready for this? I sure am. |
| 0:37.7 | First time doing the running interview with the top of run. First time running you in just general in a long time. Oh my gosh, I know. We have a lot to catch up on it. I know a lot of people around the country. And actually, a lot of the moms on the run that I coach. They've met you now at Mill City sometimes. Yeah. And they're like, oh, we want Heather to get back so bad. |
| 0:56.7 | Me too. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah. And they're like, oh, we want Heather to get back so bad. |
| 0:57.1 | Me too. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, let's talk about a little bit because, you know, people have heard that you're injured, |
| 1:02.8 | haven't seen you racing. |
| 1:03.8 | So how long has this process been? |
| 1:06.0 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, it's been a saga. |
| 1:09.0 | I guess last January of 2017 is I think the |
| 1:14.6 | tipping point where I fell on the ice walking my dogs and then a couple months later is when |
| 1:19.8 | the stress fracture on the right side of my sacrum kind of reared its ugly head. Okay. So got |
| 1:27.4 | back from that. How long did you take for that? |
| 1:29.6 | We went from, it was like basically March 30th, the day that we knew something was wrong, |
| 1:36.6 | um, to I race at USA's last June, but it was off of like 17 miles of ground running. |
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