Episode 513: Jess Tonn McClain – 4th Place at the Olympic Marathon Trials; The Whole Story
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Another Olympic Trials post race interview today! Jess Tonn McClain joins me today after her 4th place finish at the trials this past weekend. She ran such a strong race!! She is now your 2024 Olympic Marathon alternate for Team USA. She ran a four-minute PR in this race to run a 2:25:46.
This was only Jess’ third marathon. She ran the Grandma’s Marathon last summer in 2:29:25 and placed fourth. She also ran the Mesa Marathon in 2022. She talks about her progression and why she decided to run a marathon.
She is a former 5000m runner, that is what she was most known for during her professional running career post-college a few years back. She was an All-American at Stanford University.
Jess trained for this race all on her own. She coached herself and is unsponsored. She is doing things her way which she talks about in this episode!
Jess is also an Executive Director at Love Up which is an organization that supports the foster care system in Arizona! She is also a marketing consultant.
I’m so excited to share her story with you all today – enjoy this episode!!
What we talked about:
4:00- Recapping the race
11:20- Her intro to the marathon
23:30- Recapping the race
38:25- Her career as an executive director
43:20- Her training partners
46:30- Her fueling strategy
47:25- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host Lindsay. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:26.2 | All right, another Olympic Trials |
| 0:29.3 | Post Race interview. |
| 0:30.9 | Really excited to share this conversation with the fourth place |
| 0:34.9 | finisher in the women's field Jess McClain. Wow what an incredible race Jess |
| 0:40.8 | had at the trials I could not wait to talk to her. Seeing her |
| 0:44.9 | finish that race was unbelievable how strong and fluid she looked. Now this was |
| 0:50.9 | only Jess's third marathon. |
| 0:53.2 | She ran the Grandma's marathon last summer |
| 0:55.6 | in 2.29.25, placing fourth. |
| 0:58.4 | She also ran the Mesa marathon in 2022. |
| 1:02.1 | She's gonna tell you about that progression and why she |
| 1:05.0 | decided to even run a marathon. But she is a former 5,000 meter runner. That's |
| 1:10.3 | what she was most known for. You might know her as Jess Tawn. |
| 1:14.4 | I told her the name change really threw me off. |
| 1:16.8 | I didn't recognize the claim, but when I googled her |
| 1:19.6 | during the race, Jess Tawn popped up and I thought, I know who that is. |
| 1:24.0 | She was an all-American at Stanford as well, |
| 1:27.2 | and she is now an executive director for Love Up. |
| 1:31.6 | That is an organization that helps spread love and kindness |
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