87: Amy Cragg - It Is Just a Moment

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Running, Health & Fitness, Sports, Fitness

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🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Carrie interviews two-time Olympian Amy Cragg! Amy discusses training at altitude, running high mileage, how she fills her free time, and her training for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon!

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Amy Cragg

Amy is a two-time U.S. Olympian. She placed second in her debut marathon in 2011, with a time 2:27:03 and just recently took 5 minutes off of that PR placing 3rd in the 2018 Tokyo Marathon running the 5th fastest time in US History, 2:21:42. In 2012, Amy finished fourth at the U.S. marathon trials, one place out of a team spot, but months later won the Olympic Trials 10,000-meter race. At the 2012 London Olympics, after a strong first half, Hastings went on to run 31:10.69, placing 11th. In 2014, Amy won the national 10K road title at the Peachtree Road Race on July 4, and capped her year by running 2:27:03 to tie her PR and place fifth at the Chicago Marathon. In February 2016, she won the Olympic Marathon Trials. Six months later in Rio, she placed ninth in the Olympic marathon. Amy finished third at the 2017 World Championships in the marathon. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Irish Olympian Alistair Cragg. Amy trains with the Bowerman Track Club.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:11.0	Today I'm interviewing Amy Craig.
0:13.2	Amy is a two-time Olympian, a U.S. champion, Emma's gearing up for the 2018 Bank of America
0:18.4	Chicago Marathon.
0:20.2	In this episode, we discussed her amazing run in the Tokyo Marathon last February,
0:24.6	where she ran 221-42, the fifth fastest marathon time in U.S. history.
0:30.8	We also talk about her training for the upcoming Chicago Marathon,
0:34.1	running 140-mile weeks, and most importantly, what she likes to eat let's get after it all right amy you're
0:44.2	back on see tally run so thanks for coming on again oh thanks for having me yeah we'm so excited we have a lot
0:51.1	to talk about it's been like a year because basically the last time you're on
0:54.7	it was right after you won your medal at the world championships oh yeah yeah that was an exciting one
1:01.7	yeah it was last year in august yeah it's been it was kind of crazy i couldn't believe it's been a year
1:09.0	already um yeah it seems like it wasn't
1:12.6	that long ago. Does it seem like just yesterday? It does, actually. It's kind of, it's such a
1:17.8	vivid memory. And I think back to it a lot that it just doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
1:24.4	Yeah. So, you know, the crazy thing is, is you haven't raced very much since then,
1:30.8	but you've had some amazing results since then.
1:36.0	Thanks.
1:37.4	Yeah, it was kind of weird with, you know, with marathons,
1:41.5	you always have to take some time off and then, like, build back up.
1:44.8	And by the time I was ready to really start ramping up again after Worlds, it was kind of a little
1:52.4	too late. And so we decided on an early spring marathon, which was Tokyo, which I'm so, so glad I did.
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