Episode 622: Erika Kemp – Making Her First World Champs Team & Joining the Relay Podcast
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hey friends! I’m so excited to bring you this conversation with Erika Kemp on the podcast this week. Erika is a two-time U.S. Champion (15K and 20K), a marathoner who ran a 2:22 in Houston earlier this year, and—most recently—a first-time World Championships team member. She’s also the newest co-host on the Relay podcast team, which I’m thrilled about!
Erika has been on the show twice before—once in 2021 when she was chasing the Olympic standard with the BAA, and again in 2023 when she was building toward her Boston Marathon debut. In that race, she made history, running the fastest marathon ever by an American-born Black woman.
In this episode, we talk about the evolution of her marathon career—how she shaved over 10 minutes off her Boston time in less than a year—and what that Houston race actually felt like behind the scenes. Erika shares how she’s approached training and racing under her coach Kurt Benninger (Molly Huddle’s husband!), her experience making her first World Champs team, and what it means to her to be a mentor and voice for representation in distance running.
We also dive into what it’s been like joining the Relay crew and what you can expect from her as a co-host moving forward. I’m so pumped to have her on board and to share this deeper look at her story.
Thanks for listening and supporting the show! If you’re not already following Relay, be sure to check it out—new episodes drop every Tuesday.
Enjoy my conversation with Erika Kemp!
What we talked about:
5:30- Her partnership with Brooks and being coached by Kurt (Molly Huddle’s husband)
16:40- Confidence gained from her PR in Houston
29:30- Her experience at the Olympic Marathon Trials
36:00- Making her first World Championship team
47:00- Joining the Relay Podcast and thoughts on current running news
58:00- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay friends, a quick disclaimer here. The audio on this episode is not super amazing. I realized that I had |
| 0:09.8 | something on my interface that I used turned up really loud. I wasn't using my normal headphones |
| 0:15.5 | and it was a little thrown off. So nine years into this podcasting game, I'm a little bit, I don't know, |
| 0:23.7 | embarrassed isn't the right word. I'm just annoyed. But I'm not going to re-record this because I'm |
| 0:29.2 | not going to take more of Erica's time than I already have. And also it's summertime and there's |
| 0:35.7 | a lot going on for everybody, right? So just listen to the |
| 0:39.2 | volume a little bit lower because there is a little bit of a crackle, which is a bit irritating. |
| 0:44.8 | And stick around. You can do it. We can do hard things. We can listen to audio. That's not perfect. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean, geez, compared to 10 years ago or nine years ago when I started this podcast, |
| 0:57.8 | I would have considered this good audio. |
| 0:59.7 | So here we are. |
| 1:01.2 | But yeah, sorry about the audio here. |
| 1:03.7 | It should be better and it's not. |
| 1:06.0 | But please enjoy this conversation with Erica Kemp. |
| 1:11.1 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 1:33.1 | Hey friends, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine. |
| 1:34.5 | I'm your host, Lindsay. |
| 1:36.4 | Thanks so much for joining today. |
| 1:40.0 | This week on the podcast, Erica Kemp joins me. |
| 1:45.2 | She is a new member and co-host of the Relay podcast. |
| 1:49.1 | And it's been a while since she's been here on this podcast. |
| 1:52.7 | She's been on, I'll have another podcast twice. |
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