E34: Ed Eyestone - NCAA Coach & Double Olympian

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Olympic years bring the toughest tests for every nation’s athletes, and the coaches who feed such elite talent - coaches like the indomitable Ed Eyestone.

He coaches the only two athletes going into the US Olympic Marathon Trials who’ve hit the Olympic standard of 2:08:10, and this week we discover out the coaching tips that make an Olympic marathon star.

Elsewhere we round up a record-breaking Valencia 10k, Evans Chebet’s potential hat trick in Boston, and training talk this week focuses on tackling life’s unavoidable barriers.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin welcomes Deena back to the podcast as we hear how both have inspired their kids to take the running initiative
11:45 - All the latest on Evans Chebet’s potential to join Boston’s 3-in-a-row club, and the 10k world record being obliterated in Valencia
23:15 - Training Talk this week brings relief to those feeling the pressure of unexpected hurdles in your training plan, whether it’s nagging injuries or winter weather
31:10 - Ed Eyestone joins Deena to share his stunning marathon and cross country journey, and the confidence-building tips to elicit an elite performance when it counts

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 34 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Major's on this
0:06.7	week's show the women's world 10k road has just been smashed. Evans to Jabette aims to join a very special club in Boston
0:16.2	and Dina talks with Ed Eistere, two times Olympian and coach of the only two men with the Olympic standard heading into the US Olympic
0:27.2	trials.
0:28.2	Right, let's go.
0:30.2	Dina, welcome back to the show so you didn't disappear into the Bemuda Triangle.
0:38.7	I didn't, despite the fact that my internet was not working in our last recording and you and Danny got to sweep up my mess and take on the show without me, I left for the Bermuda Triangle Challenge and had such a fun weekend.
0:55.0	I brought my daughter with me on this work trip,
0:58.0	took her out of school to escape to the islands.
1:00.6	I worked so hard that weekend, lost my voice with so many speaking
1:03.8	engagements but we also ran the triangle challenges this race it's three days of
1:09.8	racing Friday night on their main street, front street, they host a mile and it's just
1:15.8	different waves of mile races going on. Then Saturday morning is a 10k and
1:20.8	Sunday morning you could either race a half marathon or a marathon and when you finish if you did all three
1:26.9	days of racing you get a special medal but the metals were the most beautiful I have ever seen. They had magnets on them. So it was this
1:36.2	triangle metal that snapped on to the next metal. So you came home with this 3D of metal collecting. It was just so well done and so fun.
1:48.8	Piper and I only ran the mile race. I was really trying to, your kids can really show the joy of running.
1:56.9	And Piper, I have to work a little harder for.
2:00.1	I wanted to show her like, look, this is what running is. You get to travel to beautiful places,
2:05.3	run a mile while the streets are packed with people cheering for you, and then you get to go home with this beautiful
2:10.7	medal. So I was hoping she could see that my job is really, really cool.
2:16.7	Yeah, but do you think she did, Dina? I do. Do you think she really... You know why?
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