Chicago Marathon Pre-Race With Keira D’Amato, Emma Bates and Sara Hall | American Record Attempt?
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
"We’ll see what happens. We’ll all find out on Sunday.”
A brief chat with Keira D'Amato, Emma Bates and Sara Hall before the 2024 Chicago Marathon.
Unfortunately did not have the time to catch Betsy Saina.
From our race preview on CITIUSMAG.com: The American showdown may become a chase for Emily Sisson’s American record, as three of the five fastest women in U.S. history will be on the start line alongside 2021 Chicago runner-up Emma Bates, Chavez’s pick to take down the record. Keira D’Amato, who held this record for just under nine months in 2022, will be racing 26.2 miles for the first time since moving to Utah to train with coach Ed Eyestone. We won’t know until Sunday exactly what her and Eyestone’s race plan looks like, but don’t be surprised if she’s in the mix for the top American crown.
2024 U.S. leader Betsy Saina, whose fifth-place finish in Tokyo in 2:19:17 was a huge leap forward, figures to be a prominent player as well. 2016 Olympic 1500m champion Matthew Centrowitz is set to be pacing this pack as they go after 2:18:29, so that will be something to keep an eye on even if the leaders are well ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | Here Damano back in Chicago, ready to race. This time a lot of changes coming into this one. |
| 0:12.4 | You said on the stage that lots of unknowns and trying to figure out what it's all worth |
| 0:16.3 | So right now where's your head at there's so many things to call from? So it's been one of my best builds. I feel like my my |
| 0:23.6 | eligible tire, I'm training an altitude, |
| 0:25.8 | volume is better, intensity. It's been really, really solid, |
| 0:30.0 | but like I just don't know what that equals. |
| 0:32.4 | You know, it's like usually it's like this, post this equals this. but like I just don't know what that equals, you know? |
| 0:32.8 | Usually it's like this, post this, equals this. |
| 0:35.0 | So now I'm like this plus this. |
| 0:36.7 | I have no idea how to translate it. |
| 0:38.2 | But I wouldn't be surprised by PR, |
| 0:41.6 | but I also wouldn't be surprised if I didn't put it. |
| 0:45.0 | Because this is also new and just uproting the family and changing everything. |
| 0:49.0 | Like I'm sure it's going to take a little bit of time, but I don't know. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll see what happened. we'll all find out on |
| 0:54.5 | the Sunday all right so let's break down the different variables so and how either |
| 0:59.7 | difficult challenging or easy it was to like adjust to them. |
| 1:04.2 | So first coach and Istone and his philosophy like what attracted you to it and |
| 1:08.6 | then like quick how did you do it quickly adapt to it? |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah I think with coach at Istone seeing that he's coaching you |
| 1:15.1 | know he two of the three men that made the Olympic marathon team were under |
| 1:19.3 | his like coaching so I kind of immediately trusted that and he's been there and |
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