Episode 458: Erika Kemp – Debuting at the Boston Marathon
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Erika Kemp is making her debut at the Boston Marathon! Erika was first on the show on episode 298 in January 2021. At that time, she was training for the Olympic Standard while training with the BAA. She recently announced that she sponsored by Brooks.
Erika is queen of the roads. She won the USA 20k champs in 2021 and she won the USA 15k champs in 2019 and placed 2nd at the USATF 5k road champs in 2018 and 2022. She was also 2nd in the 25k champs in 2021.
She is now being coached by Kurt Benninger who is Molly Huddle’s husband.
I am so excited to see what she does in Boston!
What we talked about:
3:40- Signing with Brooks
6:20- Deciding to debut in the marathon
9:15- Advice that she has gotten about the Boston Marathon from marathon legends
10:50- working on her mentality for the marathon
11:45- Transitioning to being coached by Kurt Benninger, Molly Huddle’s husband
14:30- Her race at the Houston Half
16:40- The Boston Marathon course
25:05- Thoughts going into the Boston Marathon race
31:00- What she’ll take away from her experience training with the BAA
40:00- NC State
47:00- Thoughts on the 2024 Olympic Trials
48:25- Wrap-up
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you are here today. |
| 0:27.0 | Excited to hopefully see many of you in Boston this weekend. |
| 0:31.5 | I will be at the Marriott and Cambridge doing a live panel with destination |
| 0:37.7 | marathons. Make sure you are following me uh |
| 0:41.0 | Lindsay Hein six six seven Instagram to get more information. |
| 0:43.4 | I'll keep you updated over there on what's going on over the weekend. |
| 0:47.6 | Today my guest is making her debut in Boston. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm so excited to welcome Erica Kim back to the podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | Erica was first on the show episode 298 January of 2021. |
| 1:02.8 | At that time she was training for the Olympic standard with the BAA |
| 1:06.3 | and she's recently announced that she is sponsored by Brooks now. |
| 1:12.0 | Now Erica is queen of the roads. |
| 1:14.9 | She won the USA 20 K champs in 2021. |
| 1:19.4 | She won the USA 15 K champs in 2019 and she plays second in the USA 5 K champs |
| 1:26.0 | in 2018 and 2022 and second in the 25 K champs in 2021. |
| 1:34.2 | I am so pumped to see what she does in Boston. |
| 1:36.9 | This is like a hometown race for her. |
| 1:39.0 | She's lived in the Boston area for a long time. |
| 1:42.4 | She is now being coached by Kurt Benninger who is Molly Huddle's husband. |
| 1:48.6 | That was fun to hear about how that all came about. |
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