The Best of February 2020: Predicting the Most Unpredictable Race | 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Preview
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Matthew Luke Meyer reunite to recap all of the biggest storylines and news in the sport.
On this episode, we discuss:
- The Chonky Bois (Nike AlphaFly Next%) were deemed legal by World Athletics and will be on the starting line of the U.S. Olympic marathon trials.
- What do we make of the rules and is there a stigma attached to those athletes who wear them?
- Oregon announces the new Hayward Field will honor former track and field legends Steve Prefontaine, Raevyn Rogers, Ashton Eaton and Otis Davis but who else should have a floor named after them? We need more women!
- Tyreek Hill has no shot of making the U.S. Olympic team and it was a silly Super Bowl media week storyline
- Mondo Duplantis is breaking the pole vault world record with ease and now there’s a movie in the works on him
- Buy or sell: Nike unveils the new Team USA uniforms for the 2020 Olympics
- Running through results: Millrose Games | Ajee Wilson is the gold medal favorite, Donovan Brazier is going to be a problem, Justyn Knight didn’t take a subway for coronavirus concern, Elle Purrier has a tough decision with the 1,500m and 5,000m for outdoors
- Galen Rupp proved he is back with his 61-minute win at the Sprouts Mesa Half Marathon.
- The beef between Lopez Lomong and Paul Chelimo through memes, explained
- U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships meh after World Indoors was canceled but Bowerman Track Club has a great showing
- Joshua Cheptegai ran a solo 12:51 world record for the 5K on the roads in Monaco
- More world records fall with Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh clocking a 64:31 at the RAK Half to take 20 seconds off the half marathon world record.
- 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials complete prediction and why it’s so damn hard to make our picks but we do.
- BONUS: A call with Amy Hastings Cragg to explain why she pulled out of the trials and what her race plan would've been
Support for this episode comes from Stryd. They’re helping ensure that you nail the perfect pacing strategy so you can keep a consistent effort in challenging conditions - all in real-time. I’m digging all the data that it’s collecting and you’ll see a bunch of people wearing them on their shoes at the US Olympic Marathon Trials. Learn more by visiting STRYD.COM/CITIUS
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the Citius Mag Podcast network is brought to you by stride. |
| 0:05.6 | Here's a problem that nearly every runner faces. We all know that even pacing is |
| 0:10.2 | important, but it's hard to pace your runs in challenging conditions. |
| 0:14.3 | Sometimes you're facing rolling hills, other times you're running into the wind, the heat and |
| 0:19.0 | the humidity can slow you down, and depending on where you are are altitude can also play a factor. |
| 0:25.2 | All these forces are constantly causing you to change your pace when you're just trying to |
| 0:28.4 | stay at an even consistent effort. |
| 0:31.0 | So I got this tool that I've really been enjoying that makes even pacing possible in |
| 0:34.7 | difficult conditions. It's called Stride. It's a super lightweight pod that sits on my shoe |
| 0:40.4 | and talks with my Garmin watch. Essentially it provides a grade |
| 0:44.0 | adjusted, wind adjusted, heat adjusted, humidity adjusted, and altitude adjusted number |
| 0:49.8 | to my watch called Power. Instead of trying to change my pace in these conditions to keep an even effort, |
| 0:55.0 | I can simply aim for a consistent power |
| 0:58.0 | from start to finish by looking at my watch. |
| 1:00.0 | Over two dozen Olympic Trials Marathoners will be running with Stride in Atlanta |
| 1:05.2 | where even pacing is going to be very difficult due to the hilly course. |
| 1:09.3 | So if you want to learn more about Stride, go to Stride.com slash Sidious. That's S-T-R-Y-D dot com slash Sidious. |
| 1:20.0 | I've really been enjoying using my Stride pod, now it's time for you to go and check it out |
| 1:25.4 | And we're rolling all right the chunky boys are back |
| 1:29.8 | We back chunky as ever and they're legal guys I would said that we were pretty sure they weren't gonna be allowed but statement rescinded |
| 1:41.3 | the 40 millimeter rule was implemented and the chalky boys measured in at |
| 1:46.3 | ding ding ding ding ding |
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