8: Kate Grace - Dream Come True

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Carrie interviews Olympian Kate Grace! They chat about competing in the Olympic Games in Rio, traveling Europe as an elite runner and the supportive role of Kate's family.

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Kate Grace Kate attended Yale University, where she was an All American and shattered multiple school records. She turned pro after graduation, sponsored by Oiselle and training with the New Jersey-New York Track Club. Kate competed in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 800m and 1500m. In 2013, she won the USA 1 Mile Road Championships, her first national title. She won the 800m final at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trails and competed in the Olympic Games in Rio. In 2017, she ran the 4th fastest American indoor mile (4:22:93). Kate currently trains with the NorCal Distance project and is sponsored by Nike.

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0:30.3	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson, and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:35.3	Today I'm interviewing Kate Grace.
0:37.4	Kate is a middle distance runner,
0:38.9	best known for winning the 2016 800 meter U.S. Olympic trials. She competed in the Olympic Games in
0:45.4	Rio and just recently ran the fourth fastest U.S. indoor mile. Let's get after it.
0:53.9	All right, Kate, well, thanks for joining us on our podcast. Hi, Carrie. I'm so happy to be here. I am too. I've just been watching from afar. We haven't chatted with you for like, I don't know, maybe a year or two even. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. I feel like a lot's been happening. I know. I'm living vicariously through a bunch of people, I feel like, and I'm just loving everything that you're doing. You're just tearing it up. Well, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, having a lot of fun. Yeah, well, let's kind of dive right into it. So finalists at your first Olympic games in the 800 meters. Like I don't know if people understand how hard it is for the 800 meter runners to make the final and you did it.
1:30.9	What did it feel like?
1:32.6	Oh, man, it was, I mean, it was incredible. It was like a dream come true. Just the whole thing.
1:40.9	Yeah, well, yeah, it was, I don't know. It was also surreal. I, I, I never really, I'd never actually been on a world team.
1:47.5	So just the experience of being, I guess I'd been on world relays, but the experience of, um, just being there with Team USA.
1:56.4	It was so incredible.
1:57.4	I didn't think that I would, really, I didn't realize how special that was going to be
2:01.8	just in itself. And then and then yeah like competing against such high quality,
2:09.1	um, high quality athletes was a challenge. But it was actually really fun to like, um,
2:15.1	to feel like I was being pushed outside of my limits and just kind of having to see
2:20.7	see what I could do. Yeah. I mean, you know, it was amazing story anyway, and we don't have to get
2:28.5	too far into this because it's, you know, there's some political things and whatever, but just the
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