Jordan McMeans | 2:29 Marathon at 21 Years Old, Becoming TikTok Famous, & His Passion for Oatmeal
Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson
Emma Abrahamson
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Welcome to Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson. In this episode Emma sits down with Jordan McMeans, a TikTok star and 2:29 marathoner at only 21 years old. They talk about Jordan's path to marathoning despite not running in the NCAA, his rise to TikTok fame during quarantine and his experience being a gay man in the competitive running world. You can find Emma on Instagram at @emmaabrahamson and on her YouTube Channel. Follow Convos Over Cold Brew Podcast on Instagram at @convosovercoldbrewpod. Follow Jordan on TikTok at @jordanmcmeans & on Instagram at @jordanmcmeans!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, welcome back to combos over cold brew with me, your host, Emma Abrahamson. |
| 0:05.6 | Today we're talking to one of my favorite follows on Tik-talk, Jordan McMeans. |
| 0:12.0 | He is literally a Tik-Toc legend and he also runs a 229 marathon which is really |
| 0:19.3 | impressive. He's only 21 years old. I thought this episode was super fun so I hope you guys enjoy. |
| 0:24.8 | Let's get right into it. All right Jordan, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm super excited to have you on. |
| 0:46.0 | To start off, do you want to just give a little bit of background about who you are and what you're about? |
| 0:51.0 | Sure. |
| 0:52.0 | So my name is Jordan. I am going to be a senior at Villanova |
| 0:58.0 | University. I'm studying political science and gender women studies and I'm a biology minor. I'm from |
| 1:06.8 | Southington Connecticut. I'm a vegan and I'm a marathon runner I'm an activist I'm all those things and more I don't know what else. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah I mean that's a pretty good you're also a Tik-Tok star. |
| 1:22.8 | You forgot to mention that. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, that's recent. |
| 1:25.7 | That was kind of an accident. |
| 1:27.2 | But. |
| 1:28.6 | Okay, so to start off, do you want to just kind of give your background in running and how you started, how you found the sport, where it's taking you? |
| 1:40.0 | Absolutely. So I started running when I was, I think it was kind of a late start. I started in my |
| 1:45.8 | sophomore year of high school and what have happened was so my freshman year at the end of the year you do like those |
| 1:54.7 | gym mile runs which like no one ever wants to do but I was always like an overachiever |
| 2:00.9 | and everything so I ran like I think right under like 530 or something |
| 2:06.1 | in the gym mile when I was a freshman. |
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