Episode 468: Olivia Baker – Pro Runner for Atlanta Track Club and Adidas
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Baker is on the show today! Olivia runs with the Atlanta Track Club and is sponsored by Adidas. She is an 800m runner and last year in 2022 she made her first World Championships. She has a PR of 1:58 in the 800m.
Some big news just broke about the Atlanta Track Club about coaches Amy and Andrew moving on. So the club is looking for a new coach and Olivia talks a lot about this transition period in this episode and what her coaches mean to her.
In this episode, we talk about how she was accepted to medical school but decided to defer to chase her professional running dreams.
Photo credit: Kevin Morris (@Kevmofoto on IG)
What we talked about:
5:30- Olivia’s season so far and the foot injury that she has battled this season
11:30- The current coaching change with the Atlanta Track Club
19:40- Looking at the Olympic year ahead
22:50- Keeping calm in races
24:50- Training for the 800m
28:00- Olivia’s start in the sport
33:30- Deciding to run for Stanford University and plans post-college
46:10- Her sponsorship with Adidas
47:05- How she decided to train with the Atlanta Track Club
55:40- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Lindsay. |
| 0:25.3 | Thanks so much for being here today. |
| 0:27.5 | I want to let you know I'm doing a monthly book club over on relay patreon.com slash relay |
| 0:35.6 | with my friend Cara Goucher and that is just one of many exciting things we're doing over |
| 0:42.5 | on relay. |
| 0:43.8 | This is a platform where we have nine content creators putting out high quality podcasts, |
| 0:50.2 | writing and a lot of collaborations where we are talking about current events, news, |
| 0:55.4 | training. |
| 0:56.4 | And of course the monthly book club I do with Cara. |
| 0:59.8 | We also just brought on Laura Thweet to the group which I'm really excited about. |
| 1:04.9 | She's always been one of my favorite people to interview and I'm going to be doing a lot |
| 1:09.4 | of collaborations with her over there. |
| 1:11.8 | So you can join that community when you go to patreon.com slash relay. |
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| 1:22.2 | That goes straight to the creators. |
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| 1:26.8 | We are having so much fun. |
| 1:28.2 | It is a community you are truly involved in the community when you join. |
| 1:33.4 | Like when we do the book club, it's not just Cara and I talking. |
| 1:36.8 | It's everybody chiming in and talking together. |
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