Uncategorized https://lindseyhein.com Tue, 15 Oct 2024 01:51:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Chicago Marathon 2024 Recap! https://lindseyhein.com/2024/10/14/chicago-marathon-2024-recap/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:06:06 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=14167 more »]]> It was a beautiful weekend in Chicago for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. This is a picture I took before spectating all day because I forgot my water and there was a stand handing out free prime… had to take the picture to send to Glenn because the boys would love that I’m just out here drinking prime. IYKYK.

Three and half years ago I emailed the Race Director Carey Pinkowski to see if they could utilize my services at the expo or at the race moderating interviews. He forwarded my email on to their expo team and three years later I’ve been moderating expo panels every year. It is a true honor and such a fun job that I’m really grateful for. These gigs do not fall into my lap, I am usually pitching myself and following up and following up and following up. Sometimes I hear no, sometimes I hear maybe and sometimes I hear yes. All three events I’m working this fall I pitched myself to and I’ve got one more I’m pushing hard for.

Chicago always felt right to me because it is closer to my hometown than any other major and Glenn’s family is from the Region and we’ve been to Chicago so much I just felt more at home here than any other race. I have only run Chicago one time – 10/10/10 but have spectated it many times over the years.

My colleague Shawn Sullivan who EMCEE’s the expo is incredible to work with and we already have some fun ideas to get more interactive with you all for next year!

A lot has changed over the years in the running scene and it continues to get more and more exciting with all the groups and how brands really go all out. But in all that if I’m being honest I’ve oftentimes felt a little lost and dare I say left out, like I don’t have a seat at the cool table at 40 years old. Boy oh boy does that feel lame typing it out.

This past weekend a company I had thought I formed a great relationship with completely dropped me for something shinier. I had to keep telling myself though you have a job here and you LOVE it and you don’t need more in this moment. It does hurt the ego and the feelings a bit though. It begs the question how much should we strive versus how much should we work on being content. I think there is space for both.

What I’ve leaned into over these last couple years is investing my energy and time into connecting with people who I know will show up and caring about relationships over the scene. I’m assuming there are feelings such as this in any niche space? It’s all good… but I wanted to share my true feelings at these big events because they oftentimes look like all glitz and glam!!

One of my favorite parts of this weekend is that I get to be the team Coach for the Every Mother Counts charity team… this team of 44 raised over $87K to support quality, respectful and equitable maternal care for Mother’s around the World. Now that’s what I’m talking about. We have a bunch of runners running the NYC Marathon in a few weeks which will be excited as well! (I will not be at that race in person though because I’ll be cheering on runners in Raleigh at the City of Oaks Marathon!

I also got to see two of the one on one athletes I coach – Jennifer and Megan and I’m so proud of both of them for working so hard and having strong races on Sunday!

At the expo this year I got to interview Deena Kastor, Galen Rupp and Steve Jones, Mike Ko along with moderate panels for sponsors of the expo including Biofreeze, Gaterade and Advocate Healthcare.

I always love getting to connect with Deena Kastor- a real one through and through and we had a wonderful interview on stage at the expo- you can listen to that on my podcast – I’ll Have Another with Lindsey Hein. I also had the really cool opportunity to interview Galen Rupp at the expo. This was a first for me and one that I’ve wanted for a long time but didn’t think was ever going to happen because he doesn’t do a lot of interviews. I had limited time with these interviews on stage and stretched the Galen one out as long as possible. (much to the audio people’s dismay… SORRY!) Here is my conversation with Galen if you want to check it out! The other one on one inteview I hosted was with the Legend Steve Jones. Steve won the 1984 Chicago Marathon in his first completed marathon and set a World Record that day as well. He went on to win Chicago again and also has won both the NYC and London Marathon. Will publish that episode soon!

A beautiful weekend indeed. If you came by and said hello- thank you so much! I love meeting listeners and couldn’t keep my podcast going without you. Truly. We gave away two amazing giveaway bags from supporters of the podcast including: Previnex, Lagoon, Athlete Bouquets, Erica Sara and Pen and Paces! Stay tuned because we are doing another giveaway with this crew on instagram coming soon and if you are at City of Oaks Marathon or the Richmond Marathon I’ll have a few goodie bags to give away at each of these events this fall!

Congratulations to all the runners who participated in the marathon yesterday. The marathon is so special because it takes you to a place where you maybe didn’t realize you could go.

Let me know how your race went in the comments! Are there still comments on blog posts?!

Be YOU!!!!

XO!

Lindsey

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Episode 325: Lauren Hurley – Happiness on the other side of triathlon and a fresh start with running postpartum https://lindseyhein.com/2021/07/16/episode-325-lauren-hurley-happiness-on-the-other-side-of-triathlon-and-a-fresh-start-with-running-postpartum/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:04:46 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12852 more »]]> Lauren recently competed in the Olympic Trials in the 10,000m. She qualified for that race less than a year postpartum at the Portland Track Festival. 

Lauren was a professional triathlete for a long time after starting to compete in triathlon while in college. She has done 11 70.3 half Ironmans. In this episode, we talk about what it was like to be a professional triathlete and why she is so much happier now. We talk a lot about what it meant to qualify for the Olympic Trials and the experience of switching over to running from triathlon. Since the trials, she has gone on to place 7th at the USATF 10k Road Championships at the Peachtree 10k in Atlanta.

Lauren also coaches with her husband through their business Blacksheep Endurance Project. 

What we talked about:

3:55- Qualifying for the Olympic Trials

7:00- Coming from triathlons to racing on the track

9:50- Working with her coach, Tom Schwartz, and finding a life balance

12:55- Goals for her running career

14:55- Training for the Olympic Trials

18:05- Her mindset as a professional triathlete versus runner

27:20- Her biggest strength as a triathlete and doing triathlon in college

30:50- How she met her husband and having a baby right after retiring from triathlon

39:25- Postpartum depression and anxiety and how she got help for that

43:25- The pressure that she felt as a professional triathlete

48:50- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

The Rules of Marriage by Terry Real

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Lauren on Instagram

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Episode 324: Courtney Frerichs – American Record Holder & World Silver Medalist Makes her Second Olympic Team https://lindseyhein.com/2021/07/09/episode-324-courtney-frerichs-american-record-holder-world-silver-medalist-makes-her-second-olympic-team/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 05:00:54 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12844 more »]]> Courtney Frerichs just made her second Olympic Team as a steeplechaser for Team USA! Courtney trains with the Bowerman Track Club and is a 2017 World Championships Silver Medalist, 2016 Olympian, and the American Record holder in the steeplechase!

In this episode, we talk about her experience at the Olympic Trials and making her second Olympic team, improving her times in the 1500m and 5000m in 2020 and how that improved her confidence, being coached by Shalane Flanagan, and more.

If you want to hear more from Courtney and learn more about her running career, she was also on Episode 50 & Episode 86. Episode 86 was after she won the silver medal after the 2017 World Championships so we recapped that race in that episode! 

Photo credit: Courtney White

What we talked about:

3:25- The difference between the 2016 Olympic trials and 2020 Olympic trials for her and the pressure that she felt this time around

6:40- Falling in the prelims at the Olympic Trials

10:30- Seeing the US women’s steeplechase progress

12:05- Balancing being ready for the Olympic Trials but still leaving room to peak at the Olympics

14:30- The Bowerman Track Club’s performances at the Olympic Trials

22:10- Improving her 5k and 1500m times during 2020 and how that changed her confidence

28:25- The injury that she dealt with in the buildup to the Olympic Trials

30:50- The struggles with confidence that she has faced in her running career and how she has worked on that

38:55- Having Shalane Flanagan as one of her coaches

40:50- Her feelings after making her second Olympic team

49:10- Comments on Shelby Houlihan’s ban

56:55- Working on getting her master’s degree

Show notes:

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Episode 321: Kyra Condie – Olympic Climber Shares her Journey to Tokyo https://lindseyhein.com/2021/06/23/episode-321-kyra-condie-olympic-climber-shares-her-journey-to-tokyo/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 05:00:42 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12819 more »]]> Today on the podcast is Kyra Condie! Kyra will be competing for Team USA in the Tokyo Olympics in climbing. She is a pro climber and started climbing at age 11. Early on, she found out that she has idiopathic scoliosis so she had to have some pretty major surgeries as a young child. She had a spinal fusion to correct her more than 70 degree curvature and it took several months to recover. After recovering from that surgery, she started competing in climbing and she won her first major competition after that surgery. Since then, she has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games and she has become a bouldering world cup finalist and is a regular at pro competitions around the US. She shares in this episode what it is like to climb as a professional. In this episode, Kyra also explains what the climbing competition will look like at the Olympic games.

So excited to cheer Kyra on at the Olympics this summer!

What we talked about:

5:25- How Kyra got into climbing

7:10- Getting surgery for scoliosis and the recovery from that

9:20- Her family & the lessons her family has taught her

11:30- Details on what sport climbing is and how you compete

14:05- How they pick the Olympic team for sport climbing

15:50- Climbing outdoors vs. climbing on an indoor rock climbing wall

18:05- How you score points in sport climbing

18:50- What Kyra’s training cycles look like 

20:50- Who coached her growing up

22:05- What a typical day looks like for Kyra with training

23:15- What her strength training looks like

25:30- Finding out that sport climbing would be in the 2020 Olympics

28:55- How hard work was instilled in her

30:20- Her deep water solo climbing adventure

32:50- Managing her fear in climbing

33:50- Thoughts heading into the Olympics

34:45- Advice for new climbers

37:40- Historic Olympic moments that motivated her

39:00- Favorite things to cook

40:20- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Disclosure documentary

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Episode 320: Josette Norris- 14:51 at The Track Meet and ready for the 5,000m at the Olympic Trials https://lindseyhein.com/2021/06/18/episode-320-josette-norris-1451-at-the-track-meet-and-ready-for-the-5000m-at-the-olympic-trials/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 05:00:47 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12813 more »]]> Josette Norris is on the podcast today! Josette is sponsored by Reebok and is a part of the Reebok Boston Track Club. She is about to compete in the 5,000m at the Olympics Trials. Josette has been having a breakthrough spring season. She got her Olympic Trials Qualifier back in February when she ran a 15:19 5,000m. Then she had her first professional win in the 1500m at the Drake Relays. Recently, at the Sound Running Track Meet in May she ran a 14:51 for the 5,000m and took 2nd in that race. Most recently she won a 1500m in a 4:06. 

In this episode, Josette shares about getting to where she is now and what the transition from a high school to a collegiate to a professional runner looked like. This really inspired me to keep working hard and continuing to pursue things that I am passionate about!

I am so excited to see what she does at the trials!

Photo credit: Kevin Morris

What we talked about:

4:05- Final preparations before the Olympic Trials

7:30- What it feels like to now be on everyone’s radar after she’s had a breakout season

9:55- How the extra year of the Olympic being delayed has positively impacted Josette

11:45- Being coached by Coach Fox at the Reebok Boston Track Club

18:20- Pursuing professional running even after struggling with setbacks in college

26:00- Why Josette transferred from UNC to Georgetown

29:30- Building confidence in herself and sharing her goals during her collegiate career

32:15- Her decision to work with Reebok as her sponsor

35:00- Winning the Drake Relays

38:25- Mindset while stepping on the line with some of the top professional athletes and talking about her 14:51 5k

51:10- What she has learned from her fiancé, Robby Andrews

57:30- How Josette and Robby met

1:01:25- Recapping her season of racing so far before the Olympic Trials

1:06:10- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Josette on Instagram

The Alchemist

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Episode 317: Makena Morley- 10k Olympic Trials Training, 31:25 10k PR at the Sound Running Track Meet https://lindseyhein.com/2021/05/28/episode-317-makena-morley-7-time-all-american-10k-school-recorder-holder-at-colorado-recent-one-minute-pr-in-the-10k-in-3125/ Fri, 28 May 2021 12:15:58 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12792 more »]]> Makena Morley recently ran her 10k PR in 31:25 which was a one minute PR and just off the Olympic standard by 0.20 seconds! With that time she did qualify for the Olympic Trials so she will be competing there! 

She was a 7 time All-American at Colorado and while she was there she ran the 10k school record which was 32:28. She was 2nd to Sara Hall at the 2019 USATF 10 mile championships, only 6 seconds behind her. She also recently ran at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville where she was 4th.

Makena runs for Asics and has a huge career ahead of her. Add her to your list of people to cheer for in the 10k at the trials in June!

What we talked about:

5:05- How Makena got into distance running

6:45- Her upbringing and growing up in Maui, Hawaii

10:35- Getting COVID and her recovery from it

15:00- Running at an elite level with asthma

20:20- Going into the Sound Running 10k race with the confidence to run the Olympic Standard

23:50- Her decision to run for Asics 

27:20- Plans to run the marathon eventually

29:35- When she realized she had potential to run at a higher level in college and professionally

31:30- Starting at the University of Montana and transferring to the University of Colorado

34:20- Graduating from Colorado and signing pro with Asics

36:10- Her boyfriend and his running career

32:20- Her race at the Sound Running 10k

41:20- Plans for the Olympic Trials

46:30- Her strengths in racing

48:25- Her mentality to stay strong when the race gets hard

51:10- Training with Grayson Murphy

55:50- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Makena on Instagram

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

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Episode 287: Matt Llano – 2:11:14 Marathoner & Newest Member of the Dark Sky Distance Team https://lindseyhein.com/2020/11/27/episode-287-matt-llano-21114-marathoner-newest-member-of-the-dark-sky-distance-team/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:00:39 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=12486 more »]]> Matt Llano recently joined the Dark Sky Distance team in Flagstaff, Arizona and signed with Under Armour.

Matt grew up in Maryland and went on to run for the University of Richmond where he was an All-American in cross country and track and field. Matt was 9th at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000m. Right after college he joined Team USA Minnesota and then moved Flagstaff, Arizona a year later.

Matt represented the United States in 2014 at the World Half Marathon Championships and in 2015, Matt finished 2nd at the USA Marathon Championships. After finishing 6th at the 2016 Olympic Trials in the marathon, Matt dealt with a few years of serious injuries that required three surgeries.

In this episode, Matt talks about coming back from injuries and running the Berlin Marathon last year, starting his coaching business, joining Dark Sky Distance, and his experience with having COVID-19.

This episode was guest hosted by Lauren Floris of the Up + Running Podcast.

Photo credit: Evan Barnes

What we talked about: 

3:10- Introduction to Matt Llano

4:30- The decision to run for the University of Richmond and how his collegiate career lead him to run professionally

11:00- Starting his coaching business, Find Your Fast.

14:15- How many athletes he works with and what types of distances he helps train them for

16:40- Matt’s favorite thing about coaching other people

19:00- Recapping his Berlin Marathon race last year

24:00- His thoughts on the Olympic Trials race and coming off of the trials with everything getting cancelled

27:15- Joining Dark Sky Distance

32:30- The meaning behind the Dark Sky Distance name

34:40- His favorite Under Armour products

38:35- Matt’s experience with being diagnosed with COVID-19 and how he has worked with various doctors to figure out how to come back to training safely

49:35- Hobbies that he has picked up during 2020

1:04:15- End of podcast questions

Show Notes:

It Gets Better 

GLSEN

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

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Matt Llano on Instagram

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Episode 176: Kimberly Clark https://lindseyhein.com/2019/04/19/episode-176-kimberly-clark/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:29:28 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=10242 more »]]>

Kimberly Clark is a marathon runner who loves to travel the World. (She’s been to 57 Countries!) She lives in CA with her husband Tyler and has a great success story of marathon progression. Kim is a commercial real estate broker by day – a totally different career than she had planned. She has also built quite the large community over on instagram where she shares her running journey, as well a provides inspiring and motivating messages to those following along!

Kim ran her first marathon in 6:08 as a high school senior with no training. 10 years after a break from exercise of any type- she decided to tackle the marathon with a it of actual training and crossed the finish line in 4:01. A few years later she has taken it down to 3:11 and made some decisions to pull back to focus on some shorter distances along the way.

 Kim is passionate about relationships and loves encouraging & investing in people – which you’ll see in her messages over on her instagram account!

I’m super excited because Kim is coming to Indianapolis to run the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon and we get to hang all weekend in just a couple weeks!

Show Notes:

Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson

How Bad Do You Want It – Matt FitzGerald

Life is a Marathon – Matt FitzGerald

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Kim’s Blog – Track Club Babe

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Episode 174: Sara Hall https://lindseyhein.com/2019/04/12/episode-174-sara-hall/ https://lindseyhein.com/2019/04/12/episode-174-sara-hall/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:04:23 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=10218 more »]]>

Sara Hall is a 2:26 marathoner and a 1:09 half marathoner. She came to the marathon after an impressive career in track and cross country; she’s an XC National Champion. Sara will be headed to run the Boston Marathon on Patriots Day for the first time.

She was planning to run Boston in 2018 but injury kept her off the start line and she’s more excited than ever to take the challenging course this year. We get to hear about her road to the race and how hard she’s worked cross training to get back to running. This is actually the longest time Sara has gone without racing since she started running and she is ready. This is a woman who loves to compete and race possibly more than anyone I’ve ever talked to. (now that I’m thinking this through, I feel like Shelby Houlihan might be up there with her on her love for racing)

Sara is also the mother of four daughters; she and her husband Ryan Hall adopted from Ethiopia in 2015 and in this episode we hear about how their family is doing. I love the way they do life and am inspired by Sara every time I talk with her.

This is Sara’s third time on the show and I always love catching up with her- make sure you catch her first episodes – episode 11 and then a bonus episode after she won CIM in 2017.

Photo Cred: Justin Britton

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Episode 170: Marielle Hall https://lindseyhein.com/2019/03/15/episode-170-marielle-hall/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:40:24 +0000 https://lindseyhein.com/?p=10189 more »]]> Marielle Hall joins me on the show today. You all know I love have the Bowerman Babes on the show!

Marielle runs for Nike with the Bowerman Track Club. She had a successful College Career at the University of Texas- she was a three time all-American and a 7 time Big 12 Champion, but the highlight of her career was winning an NCAA Title her senior year in the 5K on the track.

Marielle went on to compete professionally out of school running with the Juventus Track Club of Philadelphia. She competed in the 2016 Olympics in the 10K in Rio, as well as the 2015 World Championships in the 5K. In 2017, she joined the Bowerman Track Club and just met the World standard in the 5K along with some of her teammates in Boston two weeks ago, which we talk about in this episode.

In this episode we talk about joining the Bowerman Track Club, Teamwork, when she knew she’d take a chance running professionally and all kinds of other good stuff like her favorite music, podcasts and what her hopes and dreams for her future in running are. Enjoy my conversation with Marielle!

Show Notes:

Half the Yellow Sun  – Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast

Pod Save America Podcast

The Nod Podcast

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