Nike & BTC Athlete Vanessa Fraser Shares Invaluable Lessons on Injuries, Confidence, The Process, And Lots More!

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In episode fifty-three of The Running Effect, I speak with Vanessa Fraser. Vanessa is a very accomplished runner who runs for Nike & the Bowerman Track Club. She most notably holds personal bests of 31:52 (10k) and 14:48 (5k). In high school, Vanessa was a two-time state champion in the state of California and helped her team to reach the state tournament for the first time in school history. During her time at Stanford, she helped her team finish runner-up twice in the DMR and still holds the school record of 15:09 in the 5k. Vanessa's college coach Chris Miltenburg would tell his athletes to "leave the team in a better place than you found it". Vanessa certainly did that and her impact on the Stanford program is still felt to this day. After Vanessa graduated, she signed with Nike and The Bowerman Track Club.

In this episode we dive deep into Vanessa's career; the ups, the downs, and everything in-between! Vanessa has battled a lot of adversity in her career, from massive Achilles surgery to not performing as well as she would have liked to in many races. Vanessa shares invaluable insights on confidence, trying to be process-oriented, learning from teammates, goal setting, and so much more! Vanessa embodies the definition of grit. Grit as defined by renowned psychologist Angela Duckworth is having, "passion and perseverance for long-term goals." Vanessa's passion and perseverance for the sport of running is truly felt in this episode.

I personally can't wait to see what the future holds for Vanessa!

S H O W N O T E S

Vanessa's BTC Profile: https://www.bowermantc.com/vanessa-fraser-bio

Vanessa's Instagram: https://instagram.com/nessafraser?utm_medium=copy_link

Voice in Sport: https://www.voiceinsport.com/

Vanessa's Stanford Profile: https://gostanford.com/sports/track-and-field/roster/vanessa-fraser/12652

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of the Running Effect with Dominic Schleader. I'm your host
0:07.6	Dominic and on today's episode, in episode 53 of the running effect, I speak with Vanessa Frazier.
0:14.0	Vanessa is a very accomplished runner who runs for Nike and the Bowerman Track Club. She most notably
0:19.4	holds personal bests of 3152 in the 10k and 1448 in the 5K.
0:24.8	In high school, Vanessa was a two-time state champion in the state of California and helped her team to reach the state tournament for the first time in school history in cross-country.
0:34.2	During her time at Stanford, where she attended college, she helped her team finish
0:38.4	runner-up twice in the DMR at NCAAs and still actually holds the school record of 1509 in the 5K,
0:44.9	which is truly a remarkable time to run as a collegian. Vanessa's college coach, Chris Miltenberg,
0:50.5	would tell his athletes to, quote, leave the team in a better place than you found it,
0:54.5	end quote. Vanessa certainly did that, and her impact on the Stanford program is still felt to this
0:59.8	day. After Vanessa graduated, she signed with Nike and the Berman Track Club, as I just mentioned, a minute
1:05.7	ago. In this episode, we dive deep into Vanessa's career, the ups, the downs, and everything in between.
1:12.0	Vanessa has battled a lot of adversity in her career from massive Achilles surgery in 2020
1:17.3	to not performing as well as she would have liked to in many races, a feeling I'm sure
1:22.4	many of you are very familiar with. Vanessa shares invaluable insights on confidence, trying to be process-oriented,
1:29.2	learning from teammates, goal setting, and so, so much more. Vanessa embodies the definition of
1:34.7	grit. Grit, as defined by renowned psychologist Angela Duckworth, is having, quote,
1:39.5	passion and perseverance for long-term goals, end quote. Vanessa's passion and perseverance for the sport of running is truly felt in this episode.
1:48.5	I personally can't wait to see what the future holds for Vanessa, especially in this year,
1:52.7	2022. I know she's posed for a breakout year, and I can't wait to see all that she does.
1:58.0	So before we get into the episode, a special thanks to Vanessa for taking
2:01.6	over an hour out of her day to spend time with me and go through her journey. And as I said,
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