Parker Valby After Qualifying For Her First Olympic Team In The 10,000 Meters, What She's Looking Forward To The Most In Paris | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Newly minted Olympian and 5x NCAA champion Parker Valby joins us live in Eugene after her runner-up finish in the 10,000m and 4th place finish in the 5000m. Parker shares about how she almost decided not to contest the Olympic Trials 10,000m, how she’s been able to stay mentally composed with how often she’s raced this year, what it’s been like racing among the pros at the Olympic Trials, what her training has looked like the past month while in Eugene, why she goes off the grid on social media before races, and what she’s looking forward to most in Paris.
Parker also chats with us about her love for kombucha and her favorite music. Hear more from Parker and what’s ahead for her in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Karen Leciewicz | @kara_les on Instagram
Guest: Parker Valby | @parkervalby on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to City of Smack live from Eugene. |
| 0:13.4 | Chris Chivas and Karen Lesowitz here with our next special guest. |
| 0:17.8 | Freshly, I'm ready to call it, Olympian, because I crunch all the numbers, |
| 0:22.2 | I stressed out just for weeks to you know |
| 0:24.7 | figure out how the women's 10-K would play out Parker Valvie in a house yeah |
| 0:29.0 | thank you but congrats to you on the race. |
| 0:32.9 | Thank you, thank you. |
| 0:33.9 | Were you as stressed as I was when it comes to like, |
| 0:36.6 | you know, figuring out all the numbers? |
| 0:37.6 | Or was that like a coach Palmer thing? |
| 0:39.5 | That is most definitely a William Palmer thing. |
| 0:42.2 | I was like, as long as you figure out the |
| 0:45.6 | numbers and you know I'm in I'll run the rate. I was like I'm not running 25 more |
| 0:50.2 | labs just to not be in so I made him he made sure that I was in before I |
| 0:54.6 | ran the race I want the Parker Valby explanation of how the world |
| 0:57.4 | ranking system works yeah spark no okay I'm new to this so I really don't |
| 1:01.7 | understand anything. |
| 1:03.1 | But I know that there was cross-country races |
| 1:05.3 | that people ran that got them way boosted. |
| 1:07.7 | Yes, you're on the right track. |
| 1:09.1 | This is all I'm understanding it. |
| 1:10.8 | And track, track, like, the points don't rely on just your times I find out like meet certain |
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