Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.

Today I'm interviewing Olympian Michelle Lewis Freeman.

Michelle is a 2007 world champion and 2008 Olympian.

She's also the founder of Track Girls,

a program which inspires girls and women through track and field.

In this episode, we go for a run and discuss participating in the Olympic Games,

the rewards of coaching, family life, and all things Track Girls.

Let's get after it.

So listen, you are a Minnesota. No. Yes, I am. What the heck?

You know, when you're married, you just find yourself doing things that you would never think that you would do, including living in Minnesota. So we got to kind of like get everybody up to speed. I mean, you know, we do have a lot of distance runners and people that like to go far on my show, but we've also had spinners. Yes. So. Did in a five minute, one minute, type thing? Yeah, it's perfect. Okay, great. But I want to talk a little bit and get to people, get people to know you a little bit better here in Minnesota. I mean, a lot of people in the sprint world know you, but in the distance world, maybe not so much. You know, that's how it is, even when you're on teens together. Yeah. You know, it's polar opposites, such your habits, and with your routines. And so the sprinters and the distance girls or people in general, they just have

complete opposite.

In different schedules, too. So it's hard to communicate during races. We're going to go right

here. Okay. So let's kind of bring everybody up to speed. So you are an Olympic 4x1

100 meter runner. Yes. From 2008. And how it works it works as you know top three in each

event makes a team yep and so with the 100 meter girls we have another

opportunity because you have a relay so yeah before the staff the relay yep

so I finished sixth in in 2008. Okay.

In the Olympic trials?

At the Olympic trials.

And so I was able to make the relay pool, which means you still don't know if you're

going to run.

Yeah.

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