Hey listeners this is Coach Rory and you are listening to another episode of the

runners connect run to the Top Podcast.

I'm sitting here with Coach Dylan and today we're going to talk a little bit about

his journey to get to the Olympic marathon trials which are taking place in Atlanta, Georgia on

February 29th. Now I do want to just make a program note up front that we are talking

to him about four or five days out from the race.

So by the time you listen to this, the trials will have already taken place.

So what we're going to focus on is kind of the process and the journey what it took to first of all qualify for

this race. Hopefully when you check the results you'll see a great performance

from our very own coach Dylan Bellis.

So let's just jump into it.

Thanks for being with us.

Hope you're feeling good.

As we're in the final days of approaching your race.

Can you just take us back to the beginning?

Where did this journey begin?

When did you decide that you wanted to try

to qualify for the Olympic trials? This all started when I was in college.

I love doing long runs.

I love doing longer tempo runs.

That stuff was my bread and butter.

And at the time, I would really just hammer these really long runs on the roads and I would just think to myself,

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