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THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Marta Pen Freitas On Her Pursuit Of Making Her THIRD Olympic Team + Exclusive Insights From Her Success

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast is Marta Pen Freitas! 


Marta runs for Brooks Running's Brooks Beast Track Club and represents her home country, Portugal, on the global stage. 


She is a 2x Olympian and is currently working on her 3rd Olympic qualification. She's run 2:00.9 in the 800m, 4:03 in the 1500m, 4:22 in the Mile, and 8:47 in the 3k. 


In today's conversation, Marta takes me through her beginnings in sport in Portugal, the coach that had a big impact on her, her time in the NCAA, including winning an NCAA title, qualifying for two Olympic Games, joining the Brooks Beasts, and her thoughts going into this year! 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey friends, just a quick note before we hop into today's episode of the podcast, majority of you guys

0:05.9

listening right now have not given us a follow and a five-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts,

0:10.7

and it takes legitimately between five-and-10 seconds to hit the follow button, hit the five-star review

0:16.2

button. So I'd greatly appreciate you guys doing so if you have not done so already. And then

0:20.6

something all of you guys can do right now is share today's episode with a friend,

0:24.4

a family member, a teammate, someone who you think would find value and benefit from it.

0:28.8

I would greatly appreciate you guys doing that, sharing the podcast, sharing today's episode

0:32.4

with someone.

0:33.4

Because through that, we can expand the show and reach new people and hopefully through

0:37.3

that inspire them in the process. reach new people and hopefully through that

0:37.5

inspire them in the process. Without further ado, let's get into today's conversation.

0:42.3

Marta Penn Friedish, I probably got that wrong. Welcome to the Running Effect podcast. How are you doing

0:47.2

this morning? Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm really excited. You know, you did pretty well.

0:52.1

They sound kind of Portuguese. I feel like, yeah, crushed it.

0:56.3

For those, yeah, for those joining us now, I went through a Portuguese class five minutes

1:01.7

for the past five minutes trying to learn how to pronounce it.

1:04.1

I do have to ask you, Marta, like how many commentators get the name wrong, specifically

1:08.0

in the States?

1:09.4

I feel like I, when we were doing our Portuguese class, I told you like two versions

1:14.5

of my name.

1:15.3

One is like how you say it in Portuguese and the other one is like the closest American

1:19.6

Portuguese way, but in American, it's not even English, is American.

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