Keira D'Amato On Her Breakout Year After 'A Decade of Hobby Jogging' + American Record Chatter
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
“I knew what it felt like to be an elite runner and then being a spectator trying to get into shape. That’s really tough to do: creating a routine and breaking through those barriers at first before it becomes routine. I just gained a whole different perspective about running. I think where I’m at now I just feel so much gratitude and appreciation because I’ve seen every spectrum of running in my life and I’m appreciative and thankful for where it is now.”
We might be a little late to the game in getting Keira D'Amato on the podcast because she's been on a tear in 2020. She finished 15th at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in 2:34:24. In June, she lowered her 5,000m personal best to 15:04 with a time trial on the track. In July, she won the MVMT Race Series in Boston with a 32:33.44 for the 10,000 meters. Most recently, she won the Michigan Pro Ekiden Half Marathon and the Sugar Run 5K over some fields with strong competition. So how she is doing this at 36? She is also a mother and a full-time realtor.
We unpack it all by starting with her "decade of hobby jogging" before getting into serious training under coach Scott Raczko (who also used to coach Alan Webb). She shares a bit of his coaching practice and philosophy + why it works for her. She walks us through this year's races and why things have been going so well. Plus, Keira touches on vocalizing her goal of possibly breaking Janet Bawcom's 10-mile American record at the Updawg 10-Miler before shifting back into marathon focus for The Marathon Project.
Episode photography by Kevin Morris.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Citius Mac Podcast on the Citius Mac Podcast network. I'm your host Chris Chavez and we're going sponsor free for this episode since I've been tied up with some work and haven't been able to coordinate with a sponsor. |
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| 0:54.7 | episode is Kara Damato. She's been doing the podcast rounds in 2020 since she's |
| 0:59.2 | been on fire all year so maybe you've heard her on a different show but I hope this |
| 1:03.6 | conversation adds a whole other side to her she's a mom she's a realtor she |
| 1:08.4 | finished 15 at the US Olympic Marron trials back in February. |
| 1:12.7 | But ever since then she's been dropping PR's in the 5K, the half marathon, |
| 1:17.3 | all throughout the summer and fall. |
| 1:19.2 | Next week, she'll be taking a crack at possibly breaking Janet Baucombe's 52-12 American record in the 10-mile. |
| 1:26.1 | She'll be competing in a small race in the DC area called the Up Dog 10-Miler. |
| 1:31.3 | So you'll hear more about why she chose that name for that race, how training's been going, |
| 1:36.0 | and just what she credits all this recent success to. I also knew that Kira was a survivor super fan, so we we get into that toward the end of the show. |
| 1:45.0 | This is a real fun episode and I hope you guys enjoy it so without further ado here is |
| 1:49.2 | Kirya Damato. tomato. All right now we welcome on Kir Damato. Here I feel like I'm late to to having you on the podcast since you've been doing a bunch of different |
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