Episode 400: Gabi Rooker – 20 Minute PR at Grandma’s Marathon with an Olympic Trials Qualification
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Gabi Rooker took her marathon from 2:54:57 at Grandma’s Marathon in 2021 to 2:34:57 this year at Grandma’s Marathon. This race qualified her for the Olympic Trials in the marathon. We get to hear all about that and what that looked like taking her time down by 20 minutes. She grew up as a gymnast and now works as a PA so she has a pretty nontraditional path to marathoning. It was so much fun to hear from Gabi and learn more about her!
What we talked about:
5:20- Gabi’s path to running the marathon
7:15- Her gymnastics career and how it translates to her running career
10:15- The training for her debut marathon
16:00- Her race at the 2022 Grandma’s Marathon
17:45- Her training group
21:35- Where she sees her running career going
22:35- Her race at the Eugene half marathon
24:30- Her strength training routine
29:30- What inspires her in her training
34:25- Running her easy pace easy
34:55- Her work as a PA
37:55- Travel
38:25- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sandy Boy Productions Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:19.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you're here today. |
| 0:27.6 | Hope you all are having a great time watching the world championships. |
| 0:32.0 | It's been so fun to watch all those incredible performances that have gone down this past week. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm still writing a little bit on the excitement from Grandma's marathon. |
| 0:42.9 | I know there's a lot of other fun things going on as well too now, |
| 0:46.2 | but we recorded one more interview from Grandma's and that is with Gabby Rooker. |
| 0:52.4 | In her second marathon, she took her marathon from 254.57 at Grandma's Marathon in 2021 |
| 1:02.0 | to 234.57 this year in 2022 at Grandma's Marathon, qualifying her for the Olympic trials in the marathon. |
| 1:12.2 | So yeah, we get to hear all about that and what that looked like taking that time down 20 minutes |
| 1:18.4 | and her background in history with running. She grew up a competitive gymnast and now works as a PA. |
| 1:26.5 | So she has a pretty nontraditional path to marathon running that it's going to be exciting to hear about in this episode. |
| 1:33.0 | I know you're going to enjoy getting to know Gabby just like I did. |
| 1:36.7 | This episode of the podcast is supported by Gooder. |
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| 2:05.4 | Get ready to run in some fun sunglasses. |
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