The Secrets Of Running At The HIGHEST Level In The NCAA With 4:27 Miler Kimberley May

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, Kimberley May is one of the fastest females in NCAA history!

Kimberley runs for Providence University and has had a DOMINANT last 365 days.

She has personal bests of 2:04 for the 800m, 4:27.3 for the Mile, 8:54 for 3000m, and 15:26 for 5000m.

Prior to her time at Providence, she attended Avondale College Secondary School, where she was a three-time Cross Country MVP recipient. She also earned second place at the New Zealand Track Nationals in the 800m, 1500m, and 1500m and was selected for the 2021 New Zealand National Secondary School Track Team.

In today's conversation, Kimberley takes me through her remarkable last year, what went into her breakthroughs, how you can take your running to the next level in 2025, what the international recruiting process is like, her ambitions for the future, and so much more.

This one is a good one. Throw in those airpods and hit the pavement with Kimberley.

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0:00.0	I think running is so mental and it's all like confidence.
0:04.0	I feel like I started to have a little bit of a switch once I believed in myself, not just I wanted to.
0:10.0	I always wanted to run certain times and all these things, but I never believed I could.
0:15.0	And then I think just once you could actually fully believe in yourself, a lot will change.
0:19.0	And I also think you have to do the
0:21.5	work and you have to take sacrifices and it's hard, but it will work out in the end.
0:29.3	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2025. This is my first recorded conversation of the new year.
0:35.9	And I appreciate you clicking on this episode.
0:38.3	I've got a special one for you today. I have the privilege of speaking with Kimberly May, who's
0:42.8	an athlete I've wanted to speak with for a while now last year. Early in the year, she ran
0:47.7	427 in the mile, which at the time of running that was the eighth fastest time ever run in the
0:53.7	NCAA at that distance.
0:56.1	And so I've wanted to have a conversation with her since then.
0:58.7	And she's gone on to do some amazing things, both the continued rest of that indoor season,
1:03.8	outdoor season, and then this past cross-country season where she was a main key component
1:08.5	and leader within her cross-country team at Providence, where she
1:12.1	helped lead them to a historic third place as a team.
1:16.0	This conversation is filled with insights, wisdom.
1:19.7	Kimberly is originally from New Zealand.
1:21.2	So we also talk a lot about the international recruitment process, what it's like to go
1:25.3	back home during the holidays or during the summer, how she gets training in when things are busy or, you know, she doesn't have as many resources.
1:32.3	Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with Kimberly.
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