Dakotah Lindwurm After Finishing Third At The 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials (2:25:31) + Her Progression | Race Recap + Reflection
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🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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"I just felt like I just needed to get to the finish line, touch the finish line, and then celebrate. I don't feel like it is real yet. I don't know that it will until I'm back home and into my routine. But I keep getting little reminders that I am now going to be on an Olympic team, and I almost break down in tears every time."
An average high school runner, Minnesota Distance Elite’s Dakotah Lindwurm walked onto the team at Northern State University, but wound up a two-time NCAA Division II. She similarly entered the world of post-collegiate running as an unheralded but steady performer. But she ramped up to the marathon distance early, raced it often, and steadily chipped away at it, even winning the Grandma’s Marathon a couple of times.
Still, despite boasting a well-filled-out resume, she seemed like a longshot to make an Olympic team. Too many big names were slotted ahead of her with PRs significantly faster. That all changed on Saturday when Lindwurm outlasted all but two members of one of the best fields ever assembled at an Olympic Trials marathon. Her story is sure to inspire, and her progression is one that I know high school coaches nationwide are sharing with their non-state-champion athletes this week.
Dakotah was generous enough to chat with Kyle Merber over the phone following her qualification for this week's edition of The Lap Count.
Host: Kyle Merber | @kylemerber on Instagram
Guest: Dakotah Lindwurm | @dakotahlindwurm on Instagram
Read this week's newsletter here: https://www.thelapcount.com/p/making-big-meet-france
Read Dakotah's first appearance in The Lap Count from Dec. 2021 here: https://thelapcount.substack.com/p/the-victory-lap-dakotah-lindwurm
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| 0:20.0 | In this week's addition to the Lab Count newsletter Kyle Murber caught up with Dakota Linworm |
| 0:25.2 | just a few days after she finished third at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando. |
| 0:30.0 | I've got to say the Lab Count was early on jumping on the Dakota bandwagon. |
| 0:34.4 | In December 2021, Mac Fleet interviewed her for an addition of the victory lap |
| 0:39.4 | newsletter where we were highlighting unsponsored athletes and she was still only just |
| 0:44.2 | representing Minnesota Distance Al-Leed. Look at her now. I'll link to that |
| 0:47.8 | original interview in the show notes. This is a shorter chat. If you want to |
| 0:51.7 | hear more from Dakota, I recommend listening to her interview with |
| 0:54.0 | Ali Feller on the Ali on the Run Show, which was released this week as well. |
| 0:58.4 | A little bit of background, an average high school runner Dakota walked on to the team at Northern State University, |
| 1:04.4 | but wound up a two-time NCAA Division II National Champion. |
| 1:09.6 | She similarly entered the world of post-collegiate running as an unheralded yet steady performer, |
| 1:15.1 | but she ramped up to the marathon distance early, raced it often, and steadily chipped |
| 1:19.3 | away at it, even winning the Grandma's Marathon a couple times. |
| 1:22.8 | Still, despite boasting a well filled out resume, |
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