U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Runner-Up Clayton Young Updates On His Training For The Paris Olympics | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
“In the grand scheme of things, it’s probably what I needed to just be a little more fresh, more motivated and to appreciate health going into this build. I think people under-appreciate how when you take something away, how much more of a passion you have for it once it’s added back in. Health is the name of the game in the marathon.”
U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials runner-up Clayton Young joins us live in Eugene to share about how training’s been going since the Marathon Trials in February, how he’s preparing for the Olympic marathon course, his predictions for the Olympic marathon, and more details on his YouTube docuseries where he’s been sharing his training. Hear more from Clayton in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Clayton Young | @clayton_young_ on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Citius Mag live from Eugene Day 5 I believe it is I'm losing track |
| 0:10.2 | and we are joined now by U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, runner-up, |
| 0:17.2 | Clayton Young, getting ready for the Paris Olympic Marathon, |
| 0:22.1 | Me Too, the All-comers one, but our race day is the same. |
| 0:26.8 | How are things going for you? |
| 0:28.8 | Good, good, good, good, good, excited to see you in Paris, man. |
| 0:31.8 | You are going to be, is it at the Olympics yeah |
| 0:34.3 | you're racing in the Olympics I'm racing at the Olympics that's what it is yeah |
| 0:40.1 | but overall the preparation's how are they going good yeah. Yeah, I feel like, you know, we just hit the halfway mark. |
| 0:45.9 | I feel like I'm in a good spot. I'm healthy. I'm motivated. |
| 0:50.4 | So seven more weeks to kind of lock it down and have some fun and see what we can do. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | Your best friends here too. |
| 0:59.0 | I was your number two fan behind your wife. |
| 1:03.0 | What kind of talk us through your training a little bit since we last saw you at the trials? |
| 1:08.0 | How's everything been going? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, training. I think it started off the beginning of this build with a little bit of a shock like |
| 1:15.1 | Connor and I worked through some niggles the first like I don't know after the Olympic trials I think we just got slammed with media and |
| 1:24.7 | recovery wasn't always there and so we both were working through some niggles and so |
| 1:28.4 | when we got back to training I expected us to kind of be on the same playing field and I shouldn't have |
| 1:34.5 | thought that for a second because Connor just like just absolutely worked me the |
| 1:39.2 | first couple of weeks of training to be honest but I feel like I, you know, embrace the right mindset and just took it a day |
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