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THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

From Humble Beginnings Running Barefoot in Kenya to Winning the New York and Boston Marathons: The Rise of Sharon Lokedi

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Sports, Running

4.9822 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

TWO WEEKS OF FREE WITH CODE "RUNEFFECT" : https://kaizen.app.link/TRE

Sharon Lokedi set a Boston Marathon course record, ran a 65-minute half marathon, and stepped foot on another NYC Marathon podium. 

 She didn’t just have a good year in 2025, she had the kind of season that rewrites expectations for the future of women’s distance running, and her 2:17:22 course record at Boston can attest to this.

Sharon’s most recent success came at the New York City Marathon, where she came in second place with a time of 2:20:07; this was her third career podium finish at NYC, as she won the whole thing in 2022 during an impressive marathon breakout performance.

The year 2025 also saw her win the NYC Half Marathon in an event record time, and then set a PR in the 13.1 distance with a 1:05:00 at the Copenhagen Half. 

She came in an impressive 4th place in the marathon during the 2024 Olympic Games in France, running a 2:23:14. Prior to that she was a stalwart in the collegiate ranks while running at Kansas, winning the 10,000m at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships. 

After a Boston course record and a world-class season, she’s stepping into the next chapter with more clarity, more confidence, and more momentum than ever before. Sharon Lokedi’s story is unfolding in real time, and we are here to witness it. 

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0:00.0

My friends, 45 second message from me to you about an app I've been using recently called

0:04.6

Kaizen because as runners, we know the stress of trying to stick to a rigid training plan

0:08.9

is nearly impossible if running is not your full-time job, which for most of you out there,

0:13.5

it's not. And there's this remarkable app called Kaizen that I've recently started using.

0:17.5

They literally invented a whole new training system designed to fit training around

0:21.6

the complexities of modern life. You download the app. I put in a goal race date, distance, and time,

0:26.8

and it spits out an incredibly personalized training plan that will allow me to hit that training

0:31.3

goal amidst the complexities and busyness of life. And they were gracious enough to give me in this

0:36.1

community 14 days free on the app with

0:38.6

code run effect. That is code run effect. I'm confident that you guys are going to love this app.

0:44.3

I only work with companies that I truly believe in. I've loved the app thus far. And if you use it,

0:49.4

let me know how you like it. I'm confident this will help you not only hit your race goal faster,

0:53.7

but also

0:54.6

be more peaceful in the process. So code run effect for 14 days free on Kaizen. It was baby between

1:02.3

four kilometers, like four kilometers to home and then back to school. So like eight, I would say.

1:07.6

Wow. And you're doing that at a young age? It's primary school.

1:11.1

So you go in the morning, you come back to lunch.

1:29.2

Like they didn't have lunch, school lunch and stuff. So you had to either go back or most of us had to run home. So we just, we had an hour. So I think it was like time restrictions that you had that forced you to run because you only have one hour to go get all the way home and then come back before classes started again. So that one hour you had to figure out how to get

1:33.8

home quicker as quick as quick as possible eat and then went back.

1:43.1

That was Sharon Locetti today on the Running Effect podcast. And boy, oh boy, am I privileged to sit down with such an extreme legend in the sport of running.

1:51.8

She is the course record holder at the Boston Marathon, of which she has won in 2025.

1:58.2

She's run also 65 minutes in the half marathon.

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