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The Running for Real Podcast

Fiona O'Keeffe: Imperfect Advocacy - R4R 393

The Running for Real Podcast

Tina Muir

Sports, Running, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Fiona O’Keeffe raced into the record books in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials this year. In her debut at the distance, she smashed the previous record, set by Shalane Flanagan in 2012, by over three minutes. She also became the youngest woman to claim victory. She’s focusing on her performance, but she’s also embracing the opportunity to champion environmental advocacy, leveraging her running platform to inspire change.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Running For Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running.

0:15.0

Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run

0:20.0

and discover ways it helps us become better people.

0:23.0

Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps,

0:28.0

or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race,

0:31.0

we are here to connect with others who see running as the common

0:34.8

thread that leaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people

0:39.8

from all walks of life, united by a love of running.

0:44.7

Hello my friends welcome to episode 393 of the running for all podcast. Thank you for joining me today. I'm excited that you are here and excited for you to get to know my guest a little bit more today. Now you probably know Fiona O'Keefe from her win at the

1:06.3

Olympic trials in the marathon here in the US as her first ever marathon in her

1:11.7

debut she won the Olympic trials. Pretty amazing

1:15.3

result for the 25 year old. Her coaches Alistair and Amy Craig were both

1:20.9

former Olympic distance runners and you've probably heard the story

1:25.3

about her race you probably heard her on other podcast she's been all over the place really and

1:30.2

rightly so what she did was amazing but today we are going to talk about a different

1:34.4

element yes we do go into a little bit about her running journey and how is settling in within

1:40.0

her how she's feeling now now that there's been a few months between the race and this day right here.

1:46.7

But we also are talking about her other passion.

1:49.7

Fiona, as joyful as this makes me is also very passionate environmentally.

1:56.3

And so I wanted to talk about what she has seen, what she believes can be a part of the change,

2:01.3

and why she is using her platform to be an opportunity to promote change and why that's important.

2:07.1

So today it's going to be a bit of a different conversation to what you're used to with

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