Re-Run with Karen Boen

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

This week’s re-run episode is an incredibly special one to me. It’s with my college cross country and track coach, Karen Boen, who is someone that’s had a profound and lasting impact on my life. Coach saw qualities and abilities in me 20 years ago that I didn’t know I had, and she helped me to not only become a better runner, but she taught me a lot about hard work, leadership, caring for other people, and what it means to be a good teammate and human being. A lot of how I think about training, and coaching, and life in general is due to her influence and I am incredibly grateful to have run for her during my time at Stonehill College.

We recorded this episode in June of 2020 and it’s an awesome conversation that goes through Coach’s life growing up in the projects of South Boston, to how she got into track and field in college, to accidentally falling into collegiate coaching at the age of 40. She also told me how she took a small team that was on the brink of extinction and developed it into a nationally ranked program, what it’s like being a full-time female coach at the collegiate level while having a family and maintaining a social life, why she’s always focused on surrounding herself with fantastic people, the importance of setting boundaries, the biggest barriers facing female coaches today at the collegiate level and elsewhere, and so much more.

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0:00.0	The other thing I've warned is fast people don't always make great teams. I
0:11.4	originally thought that if I recruited fast people we would automatically have
0:15.4	great teams and then I brought in probably the best recruiting class I had ever
0:19.7	brought in one year and it was probably the next few years the worst teams
0:23.8	and I had had because the dynamic wasn't there so then I started really
0:28.5	honing in online what does it mean to be a team and how do we react and act as
0:35.6	a team so that has changed a lot over my career this is really who are we and
0:45.3	what are we trying to do as a team
0:58.5	hey what's up everyone it's your host Mario Freole I am on a little bit of a
1:11.4	hiatus from recording new episodes of the podcast so I'm taking this time as
1:15.5	an opportunity to rerun some of my favorite conversations from years past
1:19.8	that some of you may want to revisit and others might be hearing for the
1:23.7	first time this week's rerun episode isn't incredibly special one to me it's
1:28.6	with my college cross-country and track coach Karen Bowen who is someone that's
1:32.7	had a profound and lasting impact on my life coach saw qualities and abilities
1:37.7	in me 20 years ago that I didn't know I had and she helped me to become not
1:42.4	only a better runner but she taught me a lot about hard work leadership caring
1:47.4	for other people and what it means to be a good teammate and human being a lot
1:51.9	of how I think about training and coaching and life in general is due to her
1:55.8	influence and I am incredibly grateful to have run for her during my time at
2:00.0	Stonehill College we recorded this episode in June of 2020 and it's an awesome
2:05.4	conversation that goes through coaches life growing up in the projects of
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