Track Snacks: Joshua Cheptegei (5000m Olympic champion and 5000m/10000m World Record Holder) – 13 Weeks 'Til World Championships!
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday! This is the second edition of Track Snacks – a short show taking you into the weekend where Chris Chavez and a fellow CITIUS MAG staffer 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).
In this episode, The Lap Count editor-in-chief Kyle Merber joins the show to geek out about the stardom of Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei. He is the reigning Olympic champion in the 5000m, the reigning 10,000m world champion and the world record holder in the men's 5000m and 10000m. Just two years ago, Cheptegei boosted his international profile by breaking Kenenisa Bekele's world records in the 5000m and 10000m in 2020. He has already stated his intention that he will be looking to lower his 5000m world record at the Prefontaine Classic. We dive into how his progression has also lifted up Ugandan distance running and why we think we may be seeing the greatest distance runner of all-time in his prime.
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.
Intro music: "Believe In Yourself" by Norm Cotone
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday. Welcome to the second edition of Track Snacks presented by Hayward Magic. |
| 0:13.0 | We are now 13 weeks away from the world championships taking place in Eugene, Oregon, |
| 0:18.8 | less than 100 days officially Kyle. You saw the Instagram graphics go up this week when |
| 0:25.3 | you see that we're less than 100 days away. Is the excitement bursting or are you just |
| 0:30.2 | sort of like, it's it's coming up way too soon. I feel like the expectation and the |
| 0:34.9 | wait for this has been so long. Well, I live my life 100 days at a time. And so I was |
| 0:40.8 | well aware that we were within the time frame now. But the graphics of the conversation |
| 0:45.5 | on WhatsApp between like Trayvon and Ronnie Baker, Andre DeGrasse. Like I thought that |
| 0:51.6 | was really funny and well done. Well done by the world athletics and Oregon 22 social |
| 0:56.8 | media teams. So for this episode, I'm joined by the lap count editor in chief and my |
| 1:01.4 | city's mad colleague Kyle Merber. This is just it's going to feel like a mini episode |
| 1:06.4 | of when we did trials talk or torch talk last summer. So for those of you who are tuning |
| 1:12.5 | into Track Snacks for the first time, the goal of this bonus episode every week is to |
| 1:17.3 | share the story of an athlete that we're really excited about at the moment. And someone |
| 1:21.3 | that we may be seeing compete at the world athletics out there championships in July. |
| 1:26.2 | For this episode, Kyle and I are going to dive into Josh Chepdeguy of Uganda every |
| 1:31.0 | week. I'll bring on another city's Mac personality or a friend of the pod to geek out with me. |
| 1:35.8 | And as I said before, the show is presented by Hayward Magic. I love track and field. Kyle |
| 1:40.1 | loves track and field. It's no secret. We scream it from the rooftops if we had the |
| 1:44.8 | chance to. Kyle's baby, Leisha's first words were track and field. And Leisha arrived |
| 1:51.8 | into the world just in time for the first ever world championships to take place in America. |
| 1:56.7 | She didn't have to wait very long. So what better place for Leisha to take her first |
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