Nolan McKenna: Representing Team USA at the Ultra Marathon World Championships
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Coach Nolan McKenna is fast, world-class fast. Nolan recently qualified to represent Team USA at the Ultra Marathon World Championships in New Delhi, India, and he joins Carrie to share his journey to the global stage. From his early days as a collegiate runner training largely on his own to discovering TriDot and completely transforming his approach, Nolan explains how smarter training helped him chase big goals while staying healthy. He also opens up about navigating elite training and coaching while welcoming his first child, and how he balances it all. Nolan offers practical advice for ultra runners on adapting RunDot workouts for longer distances, and by the end of this episode, you’ll be cheering him on as he represents Team USA (and RunDot) on the world stage and beyond.
To support Nolan's journey to India you can contribute here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nolan-represent-team-usa-at-50k-worlds
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Triedout podcast. Today on the show, we're going to hear a really good |
| 0:07.9 | athlete story. This week, Triedot and Run Dot athlete Nolan McKenna is traveling to India in order to |
| 0:16.3 | represent Team USA at the Ultra Marathon World Championship. |
| 0:21.7 | Super cool stuff. |
| 0:22.7 | We are psyched for Nolan. |
| 0:24.0 | Now, Nolan is a run dot coach. |
| 0:26.5 | He's a trot pool school coach. |
| 0:28.1 | He's a trident athlete. |
| 0:29.5 | He's a run dot athlete. |
| 0:30.5 | He's coached by trydot coach Tony Washington. |
| 0:32.8 | So he is all over the place in the tritot and run dot ecosystem. |
| 0:36.5 | And so this actually is a recording from the run dot podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | Our host for the run dot podcast, Carrie Tolifson, sat down with Nolan a few weeks ago |
| 0:46.5 | to hear all about how he qualified to represent Team USA, why he decided to target the ultra |
| 0:53.0 | marathon distance. |
| 0:54.3 | He's got to run a 50K that's longer than your standard marathon. |
| 0:58.5 | And yeah, it was just such a great conversation. |
| 1:00.7 | And since he travels this week and will be competing this week representing Team |
| 1:05.9 | USA, I thought this would just be a great chance for the Triidot podcast audience to rally behind Nolan as well. |
| 1:12.7 | So I'm going to step out of the way and we're going to pick up with Carrie and Nolan in the warm-up question of the Run Dot podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | Find him on the socials and cheer him on as he represents Team USA coming up soon. |
| 1:26.4 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
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