Episode 350: Colin Bennie – 7th Place & Top American at the Boston Marathon
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Colin Bennie was the top American at the Boston Marathon. He placed 7th and ran a 2:11.26. This was just his third marathon and his first marathon major. Colin ran for Syracuse University and was part of a national championship team there. He placed 9th at the Olympic Trials in 2020 which was his marathon debut. He qualified for that race at the Houston Half Marathon. He was third at The Marathon Project last year where he ran a 2:09 marathon.
He is coached by Chris Fox at the Reebok Boston Track Club who was also his college coach. It was interesting to hear from someone that is being coached professionally by their college coach!
I cannot wait to see everything that Colin does in his running career!
Photo credit: Benjamin Weingart
Photo from Colin Bennie.
What we talked about:
3:50- Catching up with Colin
6:00- Running the Boston Marathon in the fall
7:45- Goals heading into his race at the Boston Marathon
9:05- How it felt to run his first major marathon and comparing it to his two previous marathons
11:30- Why he decided to run the Boston Marathon
12:35- Thoughts on the course at the Boston Marathon
15:00- His thoughts during the race when CJ Albertson took the lead
20:55- His thought process while running with the leaders during the race
24:45- Debuting the marathon at the Olympic Trials
29:30- Training with Reebok Boston Track Club
35:40- What he learned from the Boston Marathon and what he’ll take into the next race
38:50- How he switched his mindset around when the race got hard in Boston
41:55- Coach Fox’s marathon training approach
45:20- Colin’s demeanor on race day
48:35- Running a 2:09 marathon at the Marathon Project
54:50- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host Lindsay, thank you so much for being here today. |
| 0:26.0 | Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. |
| 0:28.0 | If you haven't listened to the episode we put out last week with Sarah Vaughan, she is about to debut the marathon at CIM. |
| 0:35.0 | That's episode 349. Go check that out. |
| 0:38.0 | It's going to be so exciting to see what she does at CIM. |
| 0:41.0 | This episode is episode 350 and I'm talking with Colin Benny. |
| 0:46.0 | Colin was the top American in Boston, placing 7. |
| 0:51.0 | Running at 211.26, this was just his third marathon, his first marathon major, |
| 0:58.0 | and we had so much fun in this conversation. |
| 1:01.0 | I've wanted to interview Colin for a while and really ever since I interviewed Marty, his teammate from college and professionally with Reebok, |
| 1:10.0 | Marty Heher, has always just had wonderful things to say about Colin. |
| 1:14.0 | So it's about time we had him on the podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | A little bit more about Colin, he ran for Syracuse and was part of a national championship team there. |
| 1:24.0 | He placed 9th in the Olympic trials, which was his debut marathon last year in 2020, running at 212-14. |
| 1:32.0 | He qualified at the Houston half for that race. |
| 1:36.0 | And then he was third at the marathon project last year. |
| 1:40.0 | So after the marathon project, I had Noah Droddy and Marty Heher on the show, the first and second place finishers. |
| 1:47.0 | And man, I should have had Colin on too. |
| 1:49.0 | He is a good time and lots of potential. |
| 1:53.0 | I cannot wait to see everything that he has in store for him in the marathon. |
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