Clayton Young After Making The 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team (Live From Orlando)
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Heading into the 2024 Olympic Marathon Trials, the consensus was that there was no consensus: Anyone could make the team.
And the races delivered big time, with topsy-turvy place changes and unexpected finishes on both the men’s and women’s side. In the men’s race, Conner Mantz and Clayton Young, the top two seeds in the field, did come away with the top two places, but the surprising news was who wasn’t in the mix, as two sub-2:09 seeds – Scott Fauble and Sam Chelanga – dropped out and reigning champion Galen Rupp struggled to a 16th-place finish.
Before Clayton Young’s 2:08:00 breakthrough in Chicago last fall, the ASICS runner’s marathon career had gotten off to a fairly rocky start. Young debuted in Atlanta in 2020 but only managed a 2:29:46 for 136th place, and in his first Chicago the following year, he was on track for a top-10 finish before falling only 300 meters from the finish line and losing 3 minutes and 5 places. Along the way, he’d picked up a few wins at shorter road races including a pair of national titles in 2023, but it wasn’t until last fall when he entered the conversation of potential Olympic contenders.
Young, who trains with Mantz in Utah, had a smoother buildup than his training partner (who dealt with a stress reaction in November) and seemed to be the most in control of all the leaders at each point in the race. He’s gotta get bonus points for sportsmanship as well, offering his training partner a pull from his water bottle after Mantz missed one of his own and hyping up the crowd even as he got passed in the final few strides.
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Host: Kyle Merber | @kylemerber on Instagram
Host: Eric Jenkins | @ericjenkins_ on Instagram
Guest: Clayton Young | @_clayton_young_ on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right. We are here in Orlando live just an hour to after the man the myth |
| 0:08.3 | the legend silence all the haters of which there are three here present. |
| 0:14.6 | Clayton Young, runner up at the US Olympic Marathon trials, |
| 0:19.2 | headed to the Paris Games. |
| 0:21.2 | How are we feeling? |
| 0:22.1 | How's all that sound? Dude, I was feeling okay until you just. the Paris that I'm going to be a freaking Olympian that's awesome. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah so we want to break down the race but when you woke up this morning was there |
| 0:38.9 | how were the vibes in the in the hotel? Like were you already in game mode? |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, you've had the shades on the entire weekend. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, I think the hotel vibes were, it was cold. |
| 0:51.5 | I don't know. It was good. was it was normal I didn't sleep super well last night I dreamed about Ryan Hall I don't know why |
| 1:00.6 | Is that a regular thing that you're always dream out Ryan? |
| 1:04.0 | I saw him after the race and I was like, dude, I totally had a dream about you last night. |
| 1:07.0 | And it was like, I don't know why, but I did. |
| 1:10.0 | And it like good vibes, I guess. |
| 1:11.0 | So shout out to Ryan Hall for the good vibes going into the race. |
| 1:14.4 | But no the rest of the morning was pretty chill I mean marathon is really long and so even |
| 1:19.2 | when the gun went off like I had to keep telling myself this race is forever please relax Clayton is it's so freaking |
| 1:26.3 | long I mean at what point in the race does it kind of hit you like we are in the moment |
| 1:31.3 | finally the buildup to this race feels like no other the amount like this has been a |
| 1:36.2 | circle on everyone's calendars for so long everything in training is built up to this |
| 1:40.0 | moment when the gun goes off for you like and we're live or is it at what point |
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