Track Snacks: Athing Mu (800m Olympic Champion) | 9 Weeks Until World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the sixth edition of Track Snacks – a mini-series taking you into the weekend where Chris Chavez and a CITIUS MAG staffer or friend share the story of an athlete who they're excited about right now that you can expect to see compete at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (July 15–24, 2022).
For this episode, Ali Feller (Host of The Ali On The Run Show) joins me to chat about Olympic 800m champion and U.S. record holder Athing Mu. Last year, she put together one of the best seasons of any athlete by running personal bests of 49.57 for 400m, 1:55.04 for 800m and winning two NCAA titles and the Olympic gold medals in the 800m and 4x400m relay. We discuss what impresses us the most about her talent, the excitement around her potential and the New Jersey pride that comes with it all. Oh, we also discuss her pug, Bentley.
Track Snacks is presented by Hayward Magic. Everyone knows how much all of us in the CITIUS MAG family love track & field, and how much we enjoy sharing that love with you all. Well, we’ve got a few big love-sharing ideas in the works and it all takes place in Eugene, Oregon this summer. Hayward Field will be the home to the Prefontaine Classic, the USATF Outdoor Championships and the World Athletics Championships. We'll be there and you should be too. Visit https://citiusmag.com/summerofhayward/ for all the information on dates and tickets.
Track Snacks is sponsored by @HaywardMagic, the Instagram home for the true track & field diehards, dreamers and fans. Sharing the magic of the sport and elevating the athletes that push it forward. Follow them on Instagram @HaywardMagic.
Intro music: "Believe In Yourself" by Norm Cotone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday and welcome to yet another edition of Track Snacks presented by Hayward Magic. |
| 0:13.4 | The world championships are now nine weeks away, I think. |
| 0:18.0 | And for this episode, I'm joined by a good friend of the podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | And my colleague, when we get to call the races at the Trials of Miles Meet in New |
| 0:26.9 | York City next weekend, it's the one and only Allie Feller, the host of the Allie on |
| 0:31.8 | the Run podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | And you're actually going to be at the World Championships this summer. |
| 0:36.2 | So your excitement is also counting down the weekends until it happens. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, thank you for having me. |
| 0:43.0 | And hearing you say nine weeks, I'm like, should I be packing? |
| 0:45.8 | Is it time to start packing and figuring out? |
| 0:47.8 | I think we've got a little bit of time for that. |
| 0:50.0 | But I am so excited. |
| 0:51.5 | I've never been to Eugene and I've not yet been to Hayward Field. |
| 0:56.5 | So I am pumped. |
| 0:58.2 | This is going to be a very exciting summer for lots of us. |
| 1:01.7 | You've seen it on TV. |
| 1:02.9 | You've tuned into the Olympic Trials, the pre-classic. |
| 1:06.6 | What are you kind of picturing? |
| 1:07.8 | On TV, the stadium looks like it's a video game basically setting for Track and Field. |
| 1:13.2 | And it's not your typical track that you go to. |
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