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Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. I'm your host Lindsay. Thank you so much for being here today.

Today you're listening to episode 243 and I'm talking with Molly Cidell and her coach John Green. Molly recently placed second at the Olympic marathon trials in Atlanta.

This was her debut marathon. She actually ran her first ever half marathon this past fall in San Antonio where she ran a 11027 and then followed that up with the Houston half in January.

Where she ran a 6935. Molly and her coach made the decision to go ahead and jump in feet first and debut the marathon at the Olympic marathon trials.

Now if you are not well versed on qualifying for the Olympic marathon trials, you can do that in the half marathon, which is what she did.

That's why she was able to debut her marathon at the Olympic trials to qualify for the Olympic trials using your half marathon time. You have to run a sub 113 and to qualify with the A standard in the marathon.

You have to run a 237 and a B standard of a 245. So Molly qualified with the B standard because she qualified with the half marathon and we talk about that in the episode just a little bit.

But some other things to note about Molly. Molly ran for Notre Dame. She was a standout author high school and she's actually the only person that has ever won both the US Foot Locker National Title as a high schooler and then also a NCAA cross country championship title as well.

Now Molly has a lot of running accolades to her name. She runs for Sockini but there is so much more to Molly than her running.

Molly and I do talk the bulk of this conversation but we do get to hear a little bit from her coach John Green who is a former Sockini teammate of hers and he's a great runner in his own right.

So I thought it was really fun to talk with both Molly and her coach to hear a little bit about where they were coming from, how he coached her and how he even became her coach.

So I hope you enjoy that piece of the interview. I thought they were both really fun together.

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Alright friends and this podcast is part of the Sandy Boy Productions podcast network.

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