Episode 532: Amy Yoder Begley – 2008 Olympian, USATF Associate Director of Long Distance Running Programs, and Founder of the Heartland Track Club
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Amy Yoder Begley is a 2008 Olympian where she ran the 10,000m in Beijing. She now works for USATF as the Associate Director of Long Distance Running Programs. She moved to Indiana to work for USATF after coaching for the Atlanta Track Club since 2014. Along with her position at USATF she is also a mentor for the Heartland Track Club which is a new team based out of Indianapolis. In this episode, we talk all about her dreams for that new team and it sounds super exciting! We also talk about her own running career with the Nike Oregon Project.
Amy is doing so many really amazing things with her career and I loved hearing all about Amy’s endeavors!
What we talked about:
7:30- Her role at USATF
16:30- Her own frustrations as an athlete and how that guides her in her current role
20:00- Qualifications standards in the marathon
30:00- Amy’s own running career
45:00- Her own coaching and the Heartland Track Club
56:35- What’s ahead for Amy
58:35- Reflecting on the Olympics
1:03:25- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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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. I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks so much for |
| 0:24.6 | joining me today. If you are not checking out the Trail Network podcast hosted by |
| 0:29.7 | Rachel Drake, Hillary Yang, Leah Yingling, and Katie Asmuth, I highly recommend checking |
| 0:35.6 | out that show. |
| 0:36.8 | It is our newest show in the Sandy Boy Productions Podcast Network, and those women are doing |
| 0:41.5 | an amazing job. |
| 0:43.0 | All amazing athletes in their own right. |
| 0:46.5 | They are trail runners doing some big things. |
| 0:49.6 | Two of the four of them are going to be running Western States in June. Definitely check it |
| 0:55.0 | out. It's an amazing new show. It's called the Trail Network Podcast. All right today on |
| 1:00.3 | this podcast my guest is Amy Yoder-Bagley. |
| 1:03.7 | Amy is a 2008 Olympian. |
| 1:06.0 | She ran the 10,000 in Beijing. |
| 1:08.8 | She currently works for USATF |
| 1:11.9 | as the Associate Director of Long Distance Running Programs. |
| 1:16.0 | She made the move to Indiana to work for USATF after being with the Atlanta Track Club since 2014. |
| 1:23.8 | Along with her position at USATF, |
| 1:26.8 | she's also a mentor for the Heartland Track Club, |
| 1:30.8 | which is a new team based out of Indianapolis. |
| 1:34.0 | And in this episode, we talk about what her hopes are for that new team. |
| 1:37.9 | It sounds super exciting. |
| 1:39.6 | And we also talk about what her life was like when she was basically forced out of her career |
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