Episode 289: Esther Atkins & Peter Bromka – What is the US Olympic Trials Marathon?
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Esther Atkins and Peter Bromka recently wrote a piece on medium called “What is the US Olympic Trials Marathon.” I read through the article and immediately wanted to have them on the show to have a conversation with them about it.
Esther is a 3 time Olympic Trials Qualifier, she won the 2014 US Marathon Championships, placed 11th at the Olympic Trials Marathon in 2016 and has run 13 marathons under 2:40 with a personal best time of 2:33.
Peter is a 2:19 marathoner and has been super open about his journey to attempt an OTQ over these last couple of years. He has come seconds from this goal several times and if you haven’t read his piece called “The Bubble of a Dream” GO DO IT right now!!
Both of these guests need an interview of their own on the show but for today we focused on the article and what it would look like if changes were made to the US Olympic Marathon Trials!
I hope you enjoy our conversation!! Side note – the second half of the conversation, my audio gets a bit staticky, but their audio stays fine so I hope it’s not too much of an annoyance!!
What we talked about:
4:35- Introduction to Esther Atkins
7:05- Introduction to Peter Bromka
11:40- Description of the article “What is the US Olympic Marathon Trials”
20:20- Discussion on the difference between men’s and women’s Olympic Marathon Trials standards
23:55- Thoughts on watching others qualify for the Olympic Trials and how it can inspire others and keep others in the sport
30:00- Their thoughts on what USATF is planning to do with the Olympic Trails
33:40- What a B Standard infers at the Olympic Trials
37:30- How making the standards harder could either motivate or deter people to try to run those qualifiers
42:15- If they would ever make the men’s standard slower and how that inspired Peter to write this article
46:20- If they tighten the standards, will it really affect the amount of spectators even when the elite side stays the same
52:00- Ben Rosario’s response to the article and how a better prize purse can be created for individuals
57:35- How to draw more fans into the sport
1:05:45- Final thoughts on the article since it has come out
1:12:30- How media outlets and running podcasts can help to grow the sport and give a voice to all runners
1:16:45- Peter’s written piece “The Bubble of the Dream”
Connect with Esther & Peter:
Connect with Lindsey:
JOIN the I’ll Have Another Facebook Group
The post Episode 289: Esther Atkins & Peter Bromka – What is the US Olympic Trials Marathon? appeared first on Lindsey Hein.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:18.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to All Have Another Podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.9 | I am your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful that you're here today. |
| 0:27.5 | Today I'm bringing you a little bonus episode. |
| 0:30.2 | I was excited to read an article floating around the internet and I wanted to bring the |
| 0:36.9 | conversation onto the podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | Peter Bromke and Esther Atkins wrote an article about the Olympic Trials marathon and |
| 0:46.0 | the qualifying time there's going to be some discussions going on with USATF about what |
| 0:51.6 | that's going to look like for 2024. |
| 0:54.4 | The article that they wrote is on Medium and it's called What is the US Olympic Trials |
| 0:59.7 | Marathon? |
| 1:01.0 | This is a really well thought out article. |
| 1:03.4 | It talks about the Olympic Trials qualifying standards and what that would mean for the |
| 1:08.4 | sport if those standards change if they do in fact get faster. |
| 1:12.7 | And it also talks about the significance of what the Olympic Trials was in 2020. |
| 1:20.7 | So many men and women on the streets of Atlanta and how exciting the sport has become |
| 1:26.4 | and how the number of Olympic Trials qualifiers definitely had a big impact on what that did |
| 1:35.2 | for our sport and how that will change if less people are able to run this prestigious |
| 1:42.6 | race. |
| 1:43.6 | I had some questions. |
| 1:45.9 | I could go either way on if I think it should be tightened or not. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SandyBoy Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of SandyBoy Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.