Episode 376: Malindi Elmore – Boston Marathon (11th Place) & Olympic Marathon (9th Place) Recaps with the Canadian Marathon Record holder
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Malindi Elmore is a returning guest on the show! She came on the podcast on episode 222 in January 2020 after she ran the Canadian record in the marathon. Go back and listen to that one first if you want an introduction to Malindi’s story and journey to get to marathoning success.
Malindi just ran the Boston Marathon where she placed 11th. She also ran the Olympic Marathon in Tokyo this past summer where she placed 9th! The Boston Marathon was only her fourth marathon.
Malindi is the mother of two and at 42 she is running her fastest marathon times and really finding success in this third part of her career. She was a 1500 meter runner and represented Team Canada on the track in the Olympics in 2004 and then went on to compete in Ironman Triathlon where she found success before running her first marathon in 2019 after having their second baby.
In this episode, we talked about both her Olympic Marathon and Boston Marathon experience. She talks about her goals going into both marathons, thoughts on the Boston Marathon course, the memories that she is taking away from the Olympics, and more!
What we talked about:
3:50- Boston recap
10:30- Her goals going into the Boston marathon
13:30- Racing and training with Natasha Wodak
14:45- Being coached by her husband
19:05- Her resurgence in her running career
21:50- Her race at the 2020 Olympic Marathon
29:05- The memories that she is taking away from the 2020 Olympics
33:00- Keeping a positive mindset when things go wrong in the training
38:50- A typical day for Malindi and her family
49:10- Goal marathons that she has and the goals that she has for her running career
52:20- Advice to anyone running the Boston Marathon course
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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 Heine. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you are joining us today. |
| 0:26.0 | This is episode 376 and my guest is Melindi Elmore. |
| 0:31.0 | Melindi is a returning guest on the show. |
| 0:34.0 | She came on the podcast in January of 2020 after she ran the Canadian record for the marathon at Houston in 224.50. |
| 0:44.0 | So that was episode 222 of this podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Go back and listen to that first if you want to get a little intro to Melindi's story and journey to get to Marathonine's success. |
| 0:55.0 | But Melindi just ran the Boston marathon. |
| 0:59.0 | She placed 11 and you're going to hear about her experience in this episode. |
| 1:04.0 | But she's got things to say about the course and her experience and the outcomes. |
| 1:08.0 | And also Melindi ran her first Olympic marathon this past year. |
| 1:15.0 | She ran in Tokyo for Team Canada and placed 9th. |
| 1:20.0 | Top 10 was her goal. |
| 1:21.0 | We talk about that as well. |
| 1:24.0 | I kind of wanted to have Melindi on after the Tokyo Olympics. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm not sure why I didn't. |
| 1:28.0 | So it was fun in this episode to get to talk about both Tokyo and the Boston marathon. |
| 1:34.0 | Which by the way was just her fourth marathon. |
| 1:36.0 | She's run Houston twice Tokyo and Boston. |
| 1:39.0 | You're going to hear about her road to get here a little bit in this episode. |
| 1:43.0 | But again, go back to episode 222 because she's got a long history of track career and triathlon career. |
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