Olivia Baker: Have Fun - R4R 432
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Baker is a serious runner - her achievements at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels attest to that. She never loses sight of the fact that there’s much more to running than the results on paper though; there’s sportsmanship, camaraderie, inspiration, and most of all, fun.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:13.0 | Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps us become better people. |
| 0:23.3 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run |
| 0:25.8 | while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:27.9 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, |
| 0:31.4 | we are here to connect with others who see running |
| 0:34.1 | as the common thread that weaves our lives together. |
| 0:37.1 | Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, my friends. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to episode 432 of the Running for Real podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | Thank you so much for joining me today and we have a really |
| 0:57.7 | inspiring guest on today. I'm excited to welcome Olivia Baker to the podcast. Olivia is a wicked |
| 1:05.9 | fast 800 meter runner. You're going to hear she's had a pretty successful career from being a teenager |
| 1:12.2 | all the way through. However, when it's come to the biggest stage, she has often struggled. And we |
| 1:16.9 | talk a lot about that today, just bad timing, things going wrong in the moment and how she adapts |
| 1:23.4 | to that. She's also the coordinator for marketing and member engagement at Atlanta |
| 1:27.7 | Track Club and so it has a lot to offer on those insights as well. So let's check in with one of |
| 1:33.3 | our sponsors before we go right to this episode with Olivia Baker. |
| 1:41.8 | Friends, did you see the exciting news at the end of last year? |
| 1:45.7 | Runner was one of the top three finalists for Apple for one of the best apps of the year in the health and fitness category. |
| 1:53.0 | Such an amazing accomplishment and not a surprise I've been telling you for months about how important Runner is to our community, how many people it has |
| 2:02.6 | helped, it is the number one rated running coaching app in the world, and they are on a mission |
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