Emily Infeld After Winning Her First National Title At 35 Years Old | LIVE from Eugene
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Emily Infeld is one of those runners you can’t help but root for. The gritty but unflappably kind veteran of the sport has been kicking around USAs since 2010, and though she’s had plenty of success along the way, including winning World bronze in 2015 and making the Rio Olympic team, she’s never won a national title on the track — before yesterday.
In recent years, Infeld has been defined by a series of injuries and coaching changes, leaving Bowerman Track Club in 2022 and shifting sponsors to Brooks. She made her most recent World team in 2022 but struggled at last year’s Olympic Trials, finishing sixteenth in the 5000m, and generally speaking, a performance like that from a then-34-year-old at the end of an Olympic cycle tends to lead to retirement announcements.
But Infeld is no quitter, and her race performance — a 31:43.56 10,000m victory outkicking 2023 champ Elise Cranny — showed her grit more than anything else.
Hosts: Chris Chavez & Aisha Praught-Leer
Guest: Emily Infeld
Produced by: Mac Fleet & Jasmine Fehr
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| 0:30.9 | We're at the city as Magh, HQ and Eugene, Oregon, and we're joined by World Championship |
| 0:37.3 | bronze medalists and now U. now US 10,000 meter champion |
| 0:41.7 | Emily Infeld. Emily, congratulations. Less than 24 hours removed from the race. I feel like |
| 0:47.3 | you're still on cloud nine. Yeah, I'm still so stoked. I know. I feel like I woke up in the middle |
| 0:53.0 | of the night. I didn't really sleep but I like rolled over and I poked max. I, like, didn't really sleep, but I, like, rolled over and I poked Max. |
| 0:56.1 | And I'm like, did that really happen? |
| 0:57.4 | I'm like, I did it. |
| 0:58.2 | I did it. |
| 0:54.0 | You did it. Yeah. I feel like you're just fresh off of like the victory lap because I was in the stadium. I popped into the mix zone because I was like, oh, like, I want to hear what Emily has to say after this race. |
| 0:56.6 | And then I asked her, I was like, oh, did she come by already? |
| 0:58.4 | And they're like, no, no, no, she's still not here. |
| 1:11.9 | And I was like, oh, like, I want to hear what Emily has to say after this race. And then I asked her, I was like, oh, did she come by already? |
| 1:13.7 | And they're like, no, no, no, she's still not here. |
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