SPECIAL EPISODE: 3 Olympic Marathon Trials ‘Hometown Heroes’ Share Their Stories
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Popping into your feed today with a special live episode of Hurdle, recorded this past weekend at the Olympic marathon trials in Atlanta at the Brooks Hyperion House. For those unfamiliar with how this works, men and women around the country have the opportunity to go to the Olympics, based on their fastest marathon times. For men that’s 2:19:00 and for women, it’s 2:45:00. (Also, half-marathon times of 1:04:00 and 1:13:00 qualify men and women, respectively.) I sit down with three super-humans — Kelly Calway, Allison Macsas, and Dylan Belles — to chat about their road to this epic race. They share their best advice for beginner runners, how they found their fast, and how they incorporate training into their regular routines. Looking for inspiration to lace up? Look no further. A huge thanks to Brooks for hosting us!
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| 0:00.0 | I truly love running and it brings me so much joy. |
| 0:03.3 | And sometimes I can get obsessive. |
| 0:05.2 | I can stress about the watch and what pace I'm running and, you know, all of those little things. |
| 0:10.7 | And if I find myself now, if I find myself getting to that point, I literally take the garment off. |
| 0:15.0 | I might even take the regular watch off and just go. |
| 0:18.4 | And remember why I love it and reconnect to why I'm doing this. |
| 0:34.9 | Hey, Huddlers, Emily Abadi, popping in to your feed with a really special episode. |
| 0:40.4 | This is from over the weekend when I was in Atlanta at the Olympic Marathon Trials. |
| 0:45.7 | Now, first of all, running is hard, period. |
| 0:48.5 | Anyone that braves any race goes out of their comfort zone, what an awesome accomplishment. |
| 0:53.7 | But to make the Olympic |
| 0:54.8 | marathon trials, you have to run insanely fast. For men, that means a marathon in under two hours |
| 1:01.4 | and 19 minutes or a half marathon of 104. And for women, two hours 45 or a half marathon of |
| 1:07.3 | 113. Basically, these are super humans and I had the opportunity to sit down with |
| 1:13.1 | three of them at the Brooks Hyperion House down in Atlanta. Today I'm bringing you my conversation |
| 1:18.6 | with Kelly Calloway, Allison Maxis, and Dylan Bella's three all stars, all with really special |
| 1:24.5 | stories who really showed up over the weekend and gave it their all. |
| 1:27.9 | What I love about this is the phrase hometown heroes. |
| 1:30.9 | These are everyday people you're walking by them on the street that really excel at the sport |
| 1:35.4 | of running and may not have always crushed it to this level. |
| 1:39.8 | I get so many questions from you guys. |
| 1:41.7 | How do I start? |
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