Episode 37 | Ladia Albertson-Junkans

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

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🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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"Running is such a passion for me and such a source of joy. It's really my way of experiencing life but also a way of exploring the world, and so I really look at it from that lens and I'm always interested in new ways of exploring either the planet or my own capabilities or bringing other people along with me who maybe haven't done something as long or as vert-y, or whatever, and that kind of is what drew me to trail running in the first place."Really enjoyed sitting down with Ladia Albertson-Junkans for the podcast this week. The 32-year-old is one of trail and ultrarunning's rising stars, along with being one of the sport's most versatile athletes. Albertson-Junkans, a two-time cross-country All-American at the University of Minnesota, has accomplished a lot in the past few years, and here are some of the highlights, in no particular order: She made her ultrarunning debut in 2017 at the competitive Chuckanut 50K in Bellingham, Washington, winning in 4:17:44, and then represented the United States at the IAU World Trail Running Championships that summer, where she finished 13th overall. She followed that up earlier this year with a win at the Way Too Cool 50K in California in 3:44:01, the fourth-fastest time in race history, and top-five finishes at both the Broken Arrow Skyrace and Speedgoat 50K this past summer. She's also very good at running uphill, finishing fourth at the 2016 U.S. Mountain Running Championships, which qualified her for that summer's world championships, where she finished 15th and helped the U.S. to a bronze medal in the team race. Oh yeah, Albertson-Junkans also qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon this past May with a 2:41:52 clocking at the Silo District Marathon in Waco, Texas, which she ran to support her best friend and college teammate, Gabe Grunewald.We covered a lot of different topics over the course of our recent conversation, including the cancellation of the North Face Endurance Challenge Championships, where Albertson-Junkans was set to make her 50-mile debut; her sense of adventure and how she's able to meld it with her competitive interests; getting into ultrarunning and what she's learned during her short time in the sport; versatility as an athlete and why that's important to her; coaching herself and how she builds flexibility into her training schedule; the power of community and its role in the furtherment and longterm health of the sport; the importance of having a team behind her throughout her competitive running career; what's inspiring her to try and qualify for next year's Western States Endurance Run; and much, much more.Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford at BaresRecords.comComplete show notes: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-37-with-ladia-albertson-junkans/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	Running is such a passion for me and such a source of joy.
0:05.0	It's really my way of kind of experiencing life, I guess,
0:09.0	but also a way of exploring the world.
0:12.0	And so I really look at it from that lens and I'm
0:16.4	I'm always interested in new ways of exploring either the planet or my own capabilities or you know bringing other people
0:26.7	along with me who maybe haven't done something as long or as
0:34.6	Verdi or whatever
0:41.3	And that kind of was what drew me to trail running in the first place
0:43.9	That's Lydia Albert and Jenkins, and this week on the show,
1:00.0	I've got Ladia Albertson Junk Ladia is a trail on ultra runner from Western Washington.
1:05.0	In fact, Ladia is just a great runner from Western Washington.
1:09.0	She is a former cross-country All-American at the University of Minnesota.
1:12.0	She has made a U.S. team for mountain running and
1:15.7	she is a sub-245 marathoner qualifying for the U.S. Olympic trials in 2020. Lottio is in the Bay Area this past weekend for what was supposed to be the North Face
1:25.4	endurance challenge championships which would have been her 50 mile debut but
1:29.6	those were cancelled.
1:30.8	We had a chance to sit down, we covered all kinds of stuff, we talked about North Face and her training for it.
1:35.0	We got into her career as an athlete, how she got into the sport through her time at the University of Minnesota and what she has been up to from a competitive standpoint since she graduated.
1:45.8	We talked about her sense of adventure, how she got into ultra-running, why cross-country was so meaningful to her
1:52.4	and the team aspect of that and how that is still
1:54.6	important to her in her life today. We talked about training and being self-coached and how she is
2:00.1	able to manage that as she tries new things in running. Talked about the importance of
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