89: Colleen Quigley - The Dream I Want to Chase
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🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Carrie interviews Olympian Colleen Quigley, who is a two-time World Championship qualifier in the steeplechase and the third fastest steeplechaser in US history. In this episode, they discuss what she's doing on her break from running, her love of the Bowerman track club, being disqualified in last year's world championships, Fast Braid Friday, and life as a professional runner/model.
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Colleen Quigley
Colleen Quigley is a 2016 Olympian and 2X World Championship qualifier in the steeplechase and the 3rd fastest Steeplechase in US history. She was 2nd at the USATF Indoor Championships in 2018 and finished 9th in the 2018 World Indoor Championships. She won the NCAA championships while at FSU and was a state champion and Footlocker Cross Country finalist in high school. Colleen gave up a promising modeling career to pursue her goals in track and field and hasn’t looked back. In addition to being a driven athlete, she is an activist for young female runners with a platform called Fast Braid Fridays. She is also a volunteer coach and is quite the cook with a specialty in Granola. She is member of the Nike Bowerman Track Club (aka Bowerman Babes) which is based in Portland, Oregon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Talley Run podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | Today I'm interviewing Colleen Colleen Colleen is a 2016 Olympian and a two-time world |
| 0:15.9 | championship qualifier in the steeplechase and the third fastest steeple chaser in U.S. history. |
| 0:21.9 | In this episode, we talk about what she's doing on her break from training and racing, |
| 0:25.9 | her love of her Bowerman track club, being de-kewed in last year's world championships, |
| 0:30.8 | injuries, life as a professional runner slash model, fast braid Friday, and her goals for |
| 0:36.6 | 2019 and 2020. |
| 0:38.9 | Let's get after it. |
| 0:43.3 | All right, Colleen, you're here on C-Taloran for the first time. |
| 0:46.9 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:49.7 | So we were just catching up a little bit before we started the record, |
| 0:52.7 | we push record, but you're in San Francisco on your time off, you're just hanging out. Yeah, hang in. My boyfriend |
| 0:58.7 | lives here, so we do a long distance throughout most of the year, so it's nice to be able to |
| 1:04.3 | come visit him. He usually has to come visit me wherever I'm at at altitude or, you know, |
| 1:09.8 | in Portland or in Monaco or wherever I am. So it's |
| 1:13.4 | not a bad deal. But yeah, in the fall, I try and go see him as much as I can. Yeah. And so you guys |
| 1:19.3 | have been together though for a long, long time, right? Yeah, we are coming up in November, |
| 1:23.7 | coming up on our nine year anniversary. so we've been dating since high school. |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, how fun. |
| 1:32.1 | So did he go to FSU with you or no? |
| 1:38.1 | No, we went to different colleges. So he's a year older than me. He graduated in 2010 from high school and he went to Fordham, which is a Jesuit university in the Bronx. I graduated in 2011 |
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