From Almost Quitting The Sport To World Bronze Medalist, Olympian, & 3rd Fastest 1500m US Runner Of All Time: The Inspiring Story Of Emily Mackay

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Olympic middle-distance star Emily Mackay joins us today, fresh off a blazing new 3,000m personal best set in February in Boston.

Emily, who currently runs for Team New Balance Boston, is coming off a tremendous 2024 season where she represented Team USA in the Paris Olympics. She qualified for the 1,500m after coming in second during the trials with a time of 3:55–which puts her third all-time for American women in the distance.

Prior to the Olympics, Emily was a bronze medalist in the 1,500m at the 2024 World Indoor Championships; she also took home bronze in the 1,500m at the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile.

Emily graduated from Binghamton University as a five-time NCAA Division 1 All-American. She was a multi-discipline specialist, showing strength and versatility by placing a school-best 14th overall at the 2020 NCAA XC Championships, in addition to coming in seventh overall at the 5k in the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track Championships.

She received her undergraduate in Psychology and went on to acquire her MBA in 2022. Emily is a very balanced and impressive person on many levels. Her current 800m PR is 1:57 and her PR in the 3,000m is 8:35 (which she ran at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix).

In today’s conversation, Emily takes me through her recent success in sport, the journey to get to that point, how she has progressed over the years, her Olympic experience, her dreams for the future, training with the best in the US, and many other subjects relating to running, life, and well, coffee.

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0:00.0	Now that I've made an Olympic team, I mean, my next goal is like, I really want to medal at the LA Olympics.
0:06.0	Like that's a huge goal.
0:07.0	But I think with like four more years of consistent training and like looking back at like the progress I've made in the last two years,
0:14.0	it's like I truly believe that that's like a possibility for me.
0:17.0	So yeah, just like dreaming bigger and I have a lot like heftier goals now.
0:25.3	That was Emily Mackay today on the Running Effect podcast. And I'm your host, Dominic Schleader.
0:30.3	Thread who've clicked on today's episode and conversation. It's a good one. Emily is in Olympian.
0:36.0	She has run at 355 in the 1500, which is the third fastest time
0:40.6	ever run by an American woman. She's very, very good at what she does, and I thoroughly enjoyed
0:45.8	the opportunity to pick her brain and get all the wisdom and insights that is in her head
0:51.5	out for you guys, and hopefully you guys can apply these things into your
0:55.4	running and into your life. She's got a unique story, a unique backstory in the sport. She actually
0:59.6	almost gave up, hung up the spikes, retired from the sport of running while in college. And
1:04.4	that part of her story was really inspiring to me. I'm excited to share that part with you guys as
1:09.1	well. If you enjoy this one, share it with a friend, a family member, a teammate, help us out. If you're listening to the
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1:18.6	so that we can reach more people and hopefully make a greater impact in the process. And then
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1:31.1	With all of those notes aside, I appreciate you all. Hope you enjoy this conversation with the one
1:35.7	and only, Emily McKay. Emily McKay, welcome to the Running Effect podcast. How you doing this afternoon?
1:43.3	I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.
1:46.1	Briefly, before this, we were talking about how bad the winter weather in Boston is.
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