Florida's Parker Valby After Winning The 2023 NCAA Cross Country Championships + Her Training/Cross Training Methods Explained
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"It's not like I'm jogging on those days [that I’m running] or that I'm cross-training easily. I think people underestimate what I'm doing. When I cross-train, there are puddles of sweat on the floor to the point that our recreational center has to put out 'Wet Floor' signs because I sweat that much. One time, they put an 'Out of Order' sign on my machine because they thought it was leaking. Little did they know, it was my sweat."
Florida’s Parker Valby just won the 2023 NCAA Cross Country individual championship title after a runner-up finish behind NC State’s Katelyn Tuohy in 2022. She wrapped up an undefeated 4–0 season that includes wins at the Nuttycombe Invitational, the SEC Championships and the NCAA South Regional before winning it all in Charlottesville just nine days ago. She dominated the race and covered the 6K course in 18 minutes and 55 seconds to win by just over 10 seconds.
Parker is also the NCAA Outdoor 5000m champion and owns a personal best of 15:20 for 5000m and 8:49 for 3000m.
She has drawn a bunch of attention to her training methods after telling the media that she only runs two to three days a week while cross-training a lot in between. We dive into and clarify a bit about her training. We discuss what’s got her excited for track season and we answer a few of your listener questions submitted via Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the City of Smag Podcast I'm Chris Chavez and this is my show |
| 0:05.3 | where I chat with some of the biggest names on the track on the roads within the |
| 0:08.8 | coaching ranks and across the running industry. Our guests sit down and open up in |
| 0:12.4 | depth to share their experiences, brilliant |
| 0:14.4 | insights, and vivid snapshots from their professional and personal accomplishments |
| 0:18.1 | within the sport. |
| 0:21.6 | This podcast is brought to you by V.O2, a coaching app based on the science of legendary coach Jack Daniels. |
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| 0:32.8 | Since 2017, Marietta High School in Georgia has won a combined 9 7A state titles in cross country. |
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| 1:17.0 | My guest for today's episode is Florida's Parker Balby. |
| 1:22.0 | She just won the |
| 1:23.0 | 2023 NCAA cross-country individual championship title after a runner-up |
| 1:27.2 | finish behind NC States Caitlin Toe in 2022. She wrapped up an |
| 1:31.9 | undefeated fore and oh season that included wins at the Nuttycomb |
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