Welcome to episode 50 of the running effect with Dominic Schleader. I'm your host, Dominic.

And just before we get started, a special thanks to all of you for your support over the first 50 episodes.

I couldn't do it without you guys. So here's to 50 more episodes. But on today's episode of the running

effect, I speak with my good friend, Elise Cranny.

Just over the past couple of months since last summer,

Elise has quickly cemented herself as one of the greatest American woman distance runners of all time.

Just within this past few months' time period,

she has won her first Olympic trials in the 5K,

competed in her first Olympics, and set a new American record in the indoor 5K, 1433,

which defeated her coach's previous American record.

And just last weekend, she set the second fastest time in American woman's history in the 10K

running 3014.

But what made that race so remarkable was

that she ran the last 7,000 meters completely solo. So the grit she displayed in that race

is truly remarkable. And we go into all of that in this episode. But speaking of what we go

into in this episode, some of the topics we cover are her Olympic experience from the racing to

the exotic food, her American record in the 5K and number two time in American woman history in

the 10K, her decision to donate her prize money from the 10 to the Keity Meyer Memorial Fund

after Katie Meyer's tragic death. And additionally, why we need to start discussing mental

health more. Her involvement

in the company voice in sport and why she thinks it's important to give back to the sport in some

way. I ask her in a culture that is so fixated on results, how she has tried to detach herself from what

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