Episode 548: Rory Linkletter – A Season to Remember – 2nd Fastest Candian All Time in the Marathon and Olympic Debut
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today my guest is Rory Linkletter. He just ran in the Paris Olympics in the marathon. This was his first Olympic team for Team Canada, which is very exciting. He qualified for the Olympics running a 2:08:01, just nine seconds faster than the Olympic standard at the Sevilla Marathon. This race made him the second fastest Canadian of all time over the marathon distance. So amazing to see Rory’s career take off over the past few years!!
Rory has been working with Ryan Hall as his coach leading up to the Olympic Games. Before that, he was with NAZ Elite under Ben Rosario, and he also was coached by Ed Eyestone in college when he ran for BYU. In this episode, we hear about those three different coaching styles and what those coaches meant to him. He is transitioning from being coached by Ryan Hall to looking for a new coach and he shares about what he is looking for in a coach in this episode.
Since Rory was last on the podcast, he’s had two kids added to his family. He talks about that transition and what that’s been like training at a high level and being a dad.
He recently announced he’ll be running the New York City Marathon, which is really exciting. So we talk about that and the decision that he made to do that. So excited to cheer him on at that race and see what he does!
What we talked about:
2:00- Catching up with Rory
6:45- His experience at the Olympics
16:30- His decision to run the NYC marathon
21:00- Qualifying for the Olympics
34:55- Training with 2 kids
38:15- His partnership with Puma
44:00- His relationship with Conner Mantz and Clayton Young
47:00- His faith
53:15- Running for Team Canada
58:25- End of podcast questions
Show Notes:
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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 being here today. Today my |
| 0:25.8 | guest is Rory Linkletter. He just ran in the Paris Olympics in the marathon. His first |
| 0:32.2 | Olympic team for Team Canada, which is very exciting. |
| 0:35.9 | He qualified for the Olympics, running a 2008-01, just nine seconds faster than the Olympic standard at the Seville Marathon |
| 0:46.0 | making him the second fastest Canadian of all time over that distance. So Rory has been working with |
| 0:52.3 | Ryan Hall as his coach leading up to the Olympic Games. |
| 0:57.0 | Before that he was coached with N-A-Z Elite under Ben Rosario and he also was coached by Ed Istone. He ran for BYU. So in this |
| 1:07.6 | episode we hear a little bit about those three different coaching styles and |
| 1:11.7 | what those coaches meant to him and what he'll be looking for |
| 1:14.4 | in a coach moving forward. Since Rory was last on the podcast he's had two kids added to his family, him and his wife, have a, I think two and four, or maybe |
| 1:27.4 | one and four are their ages. |
| 1:29.7 | So he talks about that transition and what that's been like training at a high level being a dad. |
| 1:35.3 | He also recently announced he'll be running the New York City Marathon, which is really exciting, |
| 1:39.8 | so we talk about that and the decision that he made to do that and it all makes perfect |
| 1:44.5 | sense you'll hear in the podcast episode. If you are new here welcome and if you |
| 1:48.8 | were returning welcome back I'm so grateful you're joining us and if you would consider leaving us a quick |
| 1:54.5 | rating and review on iTunes that would be super appreciated. Oh I love this |
| 1:59.8 | review Lindsay's podcast is one of my favorites I listen on long runs and recovery runs and always enjoy hearing her intelligent and fresh perspectives when talking to various guests. |
| 2:10.0 | Lindsay is great at touching on what makes the elite runner special and highlighting their achievements but also showing how we are all similar. |
| 2:17.0 | I especially love the most recent episode with Rachel Drake because I am a fourth year medical student about to start residency while |
| 2:25.7 | training to run. I love when a listener finds an episode that they really relate |
| 2:30.7 | to and can feel like their story and the guest stories are somewhat intertwined. |
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