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The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

Leo Manzano breaks down the 2012 Olympic final, world championships + dealing with struggles

The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

CITIUS MAG

Sports, Running

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

2012 Olympic silver medalist Leo Manzano joins the CITIUS MAG Podcast to share his thoughts on some of the best moments of his long and successful career as one of America's top 1,500 meter runners. Manzano made every U.S. national team for the World Championships or Olympics from 2007 to 2015. He looks back at what were some of the best races and moments including putting us in his shoes for the 1,500 meter final in London. Manzano also opens up about he approaches a bad race and gets past the struggles in his career. In 2016, he battled pneumonia and it impacted him for a long time. When you have a career as long as his, there are plenty of highs and a few lows.  Other questions include: Could we ever see him race a 5,000m? How did he target and approach the American record after running 3:30 at age 30? Manzano's style has always been to creep up and maneuver his way to the win or podium on the last lap, does he have to change that due to his longevity? For more on the listener questions, read down below... Citius Mag is creating [mostly] high-quality articles, podcasts, and videos centered around the world of running. Maybe you're a washed-up college athlete. Maybe you ran track in high school. Perhaps you're 35-years old and are still grinding it out every day. Whoever you are, Citius Mag is making stuff that you'll find relatable, insightful, and maybe a little bit funny. This is our 2nd year on the world wide web, and we have some big plans for new and exciting stuff. Your support will help us get there! We've launched out Patreon, which will serve as our place for premium content. Before every podcast guest we will create a Patron-only article where you can give us any burning question you might have for that weeks guest. After we record it we will cut a version just for our patrons and their questions. Listener questions + the famous final three will be available for our Patreon subscribers so please consider joining today. https://www.patreon.com/citiusmag

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0:00.0

Hey there sitwits it's your host Chris Chavez and over the last couple weeks I've been hinting about a couple changes coming to the podcast and as well to Sidious mag.com.

0:10.0

So we're coming up on our first birthday.

0:13.0

Citius Mag will turn one year old on February 7th

0:16.0

and it's been a really fun year.

0:19.0

You know, we're creating mostly high quality articles and podcasts, videos centered around the world of, you know, running.

0:28.0

Maybe you're a washed up college athlete, maybe you ran track in high school or just you know perhaps you're 35

0:34.5

years old still grinding it out every day. Whoever you are you know Citius mag is

0:39.0

making stuff that you'll find relatable insightful and maybe sometimes a little bit funny.

0:44.7

So as we are approaching our second year on the web, we've decided to launch our Patreon

0:49.6

account and it's just $8 a month consider it buying a Chipotle Burrito for the

0:56.7

website pretty much and if you donate to the site and become a Patreon member

1:02.1

you become a member of the

1:03.9

Citius Mag track club. So what that means is not necessarily that you are, you know,

1:10.0

going to be racing or training in a Cit smag track club singlet or gear all the time

1:15.2

but it's your way of joining a community of people who support what we're doing and

1:20.7

there's going to be a couple different changes made the first of which is

1:25.2

there's a members only version of the CSMEC podcast you know with every guest we do the second

1:31.6

half of the show where I take some listener questions

1:34.7

and you guys get the answers from directly from the mouth of these professional runners

1:39.7

that you watch on TV or have seen in person and so those burning questions we're

1:47.6

going to put them behind the Citius mag track club patreon and it's only $8 a month so if you want your

1:54.4

question answered it'll be right there and we're gonna cut the version just

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