U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Runner-Up Emily Sisson Updates Us On Training For Paris 2024 | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
“I think it’s important to have confidence in the plan that you choose, just going into the race and standing on the starting line knowing you did everything you could. I'm going to focus on my strengths and know I'm at the top.”
2x Olympian and American record holder Emily Sisson joins us live in Eugene to catch us up on how training has been going since qualifying for the U.S. Marathon team in February. Emily shares her thoughts on the Paris Olympics marathon course, adjustments she’s made to her training to prepare for the Olympics, why she likes switching up the distances she races, and her plans for post-Olympics. Hear more from Emily and what’s ahead for her in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Eric Jenkins | @_ericjenkins on Instagram
Guest: Emily Sisson | @em_sisson on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | We are back in |
| 0:02.0 | here. |
| 0:03.0 | We are joined now by our American record holder in the marathon, |
| 0:07.0 | your U.S. Olympic marathon trials runner-up. |
| 0:09.0 | Emily Sisson heading to a second Olympic Games. |
| 0:14.4 | How's it, how's it feel? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm getting excited now that I'm here, |
| 0:17.6 | doing the team processing and everything. |
| 0:18.9 | It's starting to feel real. |
| 0:21.0 | Back in February, I was complaining after the race, not but I was like I have so much time like oh like like I'm not as like not as like not that I wasn't excited but I was just like it doesn't feel real yet and my husband's like don't complain about that like no |
| 0:32.8 | literally no one feels sorry for you qualified for an Olympics like visit to wait a bit |
| 0:36.5 | but it's starting to feel real now so so yeah that's really exciting. |
| 0:40.9 | We saw Connor Mans out here running the 10-K and pushing the |
| 0:45.2 | pace from the front. No temptation? Yeah. A small party that wants to be out there? |
| 0:50.4 | If anything, your name on the declarations or entry list would have just |
| 0:53.6 | sent just a shiver down and I think people's fines. There there was like a moment |
| 0:58.0 | maybe a couple months ago I thought about it but I love the track but I just it |
| 1:02.2 | beat like it always beat me up so much and I'm just like so all in on the marathon right now |
| 1:06.7 | So like as hard as it is not to be on the track I'm like I'm content with this plan of just like trying to see like what I can do on the roads |
| 1:15.2 | So would you say that the track felt more physically taxing than the marathon? |
| 1:20.5 | I definitely got injured more. Yeah. So I think... |
| 1:24.1 | Was it the speeds? Is it the types of workouts you? Like, what do you think it was? I mean you can |
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