Olympic Marathon Trials Pre-Race: Meeting Random Hometown Heroes (Live from the Brooks Hyperion House)
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🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Ryan Welsh post up at the Brooks Hyperion House at Switchyards in downtown Atlanta to test out a new podcast concept – talking to strangers to get to know their running story. For this first episode, we sat down and got to meet some of Brooks' Hometown Heroes. They're sub-elite runners who hold full-time jobs and still manage to find the time to run fast. You'll be surprised at who we meet. We knew nothing about these people beforehand. It was blind speed dating of sorts.
Garrett Heath of the Brooks Beasts (27-minute mark) happened to be working at the lounge and so we got his thoughts on being in town for the trials, what it's like to compete for an Olympic team spot and some of his own predictions for the race.
Teresa McWalters (41-minute mark) is a four-time U.S. Olympic trials qualifier with a newfound perspective on running after an injury in this buildup.
Kelly Calway (51-minute mark) is a U.S. Army officer who ran at NC State. She is a combat veteran with two deployments under her belt. Because of her work and service for this country, running has taken place in a wide variety of places.
Elizabeth Gregory and Holly Clarke (1 hour, 8-minute mark) share their experience as teammates on the Impala Racing Team, who qualified together.
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| 0:00.0 | All right we are here at Switchyards in downtown Atlanta at the Brooks Hyperion |
| 0:07.0 | house we're going to try something new for a little podcast concept. I'm joined |
| 0:11.1 | by Ryan Welsh my co-host my what is it what is the official title you gave |
| 0:15.0 | yourself occasionally recurring co-host of the Citius mag podcast yeah it's a great title |
| 0:20.9 | and so we're sitting here. We've got four chairs, four mics, the two of us, and |
| 0:27.4 | we're just going to talk to random qualifiers from the trials who are sponsored by Brooks. |
| 0:34.2 | Brooks is doing a really cool program where they sponsor |
| 0:36.5 | Hometown Heroes and so as they sit down to talk to us we're just going to try and |
| 0:42.0 | find out who they are, what they do, how they |
| 0:44.8 | qualified, literally talking to strangers. And Ryan, I think when I pitched this concept to |
| 0:50.3 | you is like speed dating for podcasting so I have no idea what to expect. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah I mean I actually expect that we could run into a fair amount of people that are |
| 1:00.5 | talking about taking a paid time off from work to be here because we've got a lot of really, you know, normal 9 to 5 type people that have qualified for this marathon that we're going to meet here. |
| 1:13.9 | It's awesome. |
| 1:14.7 | And the city, it's Thursday. |
| 1:17.3 | I just landed here this morning. |
| 1:19.8 | I was thrilled to see how a buzz the city is already I know you got here yesterday |
| 1:24.1 | Chris you went for a run this morning with some folks I did a little jog as well |
| 1:28.8 | but it's it's crazy to see how a buzz the city is already. |
| 1:32.6 | What'd you see on your run today? |
| 1:33.7 | Because I went, first thing that stood out to me on my run |
| 1:36.1 | was like, these hills are no joke. |
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