From Quitting Running to Fastest Marathoner in America- Luke Puskedra
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Life as an elite runner isn’t what you would expect; even the fastest and most dedicated runners can lose their passion. Our guest was a runner at the University of Oregon, which is an amazing opportunity and every collegiate runners dream. But the pressure was on, and his story got interesting fast. So today is about his experience, before, during and after his collegiate life as an athlete.
“Winning as a team is something that will always stick with me.” – Luke
Luke Puskedra is an Elite runner from Sal [...]
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| 0:00.0 | At that point though my parents were saying okay well what's the next step then like do you want to be a coach or and I wanted I didn't want anything to do with running at all |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Runners Connect run to to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport |
| 0:16.8 | so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. |
| 0:21.5 | And now your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you so much for being here with me today for the latest episode of the |
| 0:31.0 | Rans the Top Podcast, Botr you by Runners Connect. Hard to believe this, but this is my 50th |
| 0:37.4 | podcast episode. I can't believe it's almost 2016 and many of us will be celebrating the holidays right now |
| 0:44.8 | which makes me even more thankful that you have taken the time to listen to this |
| 0:48.7 | episode today. I'm not going to waste too much of your time here so hopefully I'm going to make it worthwhile for you. |
| 0:55.0 | Over the next two weeks I have found two very inspiring guests for you, |
| 1:00.0 | but both of them have found their balance in their lives, but coming at it from different angles. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm sure between them they're going to hit the whole spectrum of the runners listening. |
| 1:10.0 | And it will actually allow all of us to kind of understand both ends. |
| 1:14.0 | This week I'm going to focus on an elite runner, |
| 1:18.0 | someone who was living every collegiate runner's dream running at the University of Oregon. And not only was he running at the University of Oregon, but it was at the time of Matt Centroitz, Galen-Rup, Andrew Wheating, and many other studs. And he, like many of us, thought he had life figured out. |
| 1:36.4 | You know, he expected to be successful in the marathon, continues running as his moneymaker, |
| 1:41.5 | keep getting better and better. But in his first marathon he struggled |
| 1:45.8 | so much that he ended up quitting the sport, did not intend on ever running again and had |
| 1:51.2 | absolutely no interest in anything about running. |
| 1:55.0 | So this story will really open your eyes and show you that life is an elite |
| 2:00.0 | is not only what you expect, but sometimes even the fastest runners in the country can lose |
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