Once the Trials Crasher, Noah Droddy Is Here To Stay After His 2:09:09 at The Marathon Project
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
"After Chicago, I said, ‘I’ve arrived in the arena of my marathon potential but I still feel like I’m sitting in the nosebleeds.’ Right? I’m not there yet. So now, I’m like, ‘Well fuck...I’m there now. I think.’ If I can do that again or even get a little better then that’s pretty good. I like to think I’ve proven myself as a competitor beyond just being like the puke guy or the beer-drinking hero guy.”
Noah Droddy finished second in 2:09:09 behind recent guest Marty Hehir at the Marathon Project. It was major because it was his first race in 14 months. He had to scratch from the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials due to injury and then he withdrew from the Michigan Pro Half Marathon in the fall due to a COVID scare that might have been a false positive. Droddy came into the race with a personal best of 2:11:42 so it was an improvement by two minutes and 32 seconds. In this episode, we take it all the way back to Droddy’s division 3 days, his choice to take a risk on himself and running post collegiately, crashing the 2016 track trials but ultimately putting respect on his name and proving himself in the marathon. You’re gonna want to stick around all the way to the end of this one because he’s also got the funniest drug testing story in the history of this podcast.
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| 0:43.2 | My guest for today's episode and the last one for this week but definitely not the last |
| 0:47.5 | of 2020 or even the last from the Marathon Project is Noa Drati. He finished second in 2009-09 behind recent |
| 0:57.0 | guest Marty Hare at the Marathon Project. It was major because this was his first |
| 1:02.3 | race in 14 months. |
| 1:04.0 | He had to scratch from the U.S. Olympic Marathon trials due to injury |
| 1:08.0 | and then he withdrew from the Michigan Pro Half in the |
| 1:15.0 | Pro half in the fall due to a COVID scare that might have been a false positive he gets into it and tells us all the details about that. |
| 1:18.0 | Drotti came into this race with the personal best of 2 1142 from the 2019 Chicago Marathon. |
| 1:24.5 | So this was an improvement by more than 2.5 minutes. |
| 1:28.4 | In this episode, we'll take it all the way back |
| 1:30.7 | to Noah's Division 3 days, his choice to take a risk on himself by running post |
| 1:35.9 | collegiately and moving out to Boulder, crashing the 2016 track trials, but ultimately |
| 1:41.6 | putting respect on his name and proving himself in the marathon. |
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