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Episode 278: Naomi Mitchell – Huge PR in London – 2:33 Marathon!

Lindsey Hein — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:15:32 +0000

Naomi Mitchell ran a 4 minute personal best time at the London Marathon this past weekend for a time of 2:33:23. Her marathon progression is exciting and impressive. She’s only 26 years old and has been putting more serious training into the marathon since 2018. She casually ran some marathons in the speedy times of 2:49-3:01 before she decided to really see what she could do. Last fall in Frankfurt she ran a 2:37 and just a year later took that down to 2:33 from this past weekend!

Naomi works full time as a chartered accountant and trains with the Reading Athletic Club.

What we talked about:

4:10- Introduction to Naomi Mitchell and a bit of history of her running career

7:55- A timeline of her marathon progression and how she had such big improvements in the marathon the last few years

10:15- Her goals at the Frankfurt Marathon in 2019

11:30- What she has her sights set on with running in the coming years

12:45- Her early years of running and the club that she ran for growing up

15:00- Her change in mileage and training progressions when she started having big improvements

15:55- What she does for work

16:25- How she balances her time between training and working full time

18:50- Being vegan while training for marathons

24:15- The process of getting into the London Marathon

25:35- Details of the London Marathon course and training for the unique aspect of the course being a lot of laps

29:40- Details on being in the London Marathon “bubble” and safety precautions they took for COVID

32:10- The weather at the race

33:00- A breakdown of her race

37:55- Her mentality when the race got hard

39:00- The support that she gets from her husband with her training

42:35- Her fueling strategy during a marathon

45:50- What her sights are set on next and if she will be running a spring marathon

46:10- End of podcast questions

Show Notes:

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Episode 221: Alison Wade

Lindsey Hein — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:47:04 +0000

Alison Wade is the writer and brains behind the Fast Women newsletter. She is the mother of two and has been involved in the running industry for over two decades. Alison worked for the NYRR where she founded fast-women.com and served as editor of fast-women.com and mensracing.com for the sites’ first five years.

She has been a freelance writer for several years and currently still writes for Runner’s World. She ran in college and spent time coaching at various Division III and Division I colleges, as well as two high schools.

Alison works tirelessly to make Fast Women an accurate, interesting and fun source of news for Women’s Running. I will say that she is checking all of those boxes and I am so thankful for her work.

Show Notes:

FAST WOMEN Newsletter Opt-In

The Martin Richard Foundation

Dandelion Growing Wild

Lindsey on Instagram

Fast Women on Instagram

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Fast Women on Facebook

Fast Women on Patreon

Lindsey on Patreon

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Episode 85: Jen Bigham

Lindsey Hein — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:53:48 +0000

Episode 85 of I’ll Have Another was so fun to record. Jen has been one of my most requested guests for the show. I’ve been friends with Jen on the internet for a long time and it was fun to actually hear her voice and chat about all things running and family. One thing I’ve been able to admire from afar for all these years is her independence, her love for running, and also the balance she seems to place on it while prioritizing family and fun.

Jen comes from a family of speedy runners and is a 1:15 half marathoner. She is currently training for the Philly Marathon where she hopes to qualify for the Olympic Trials. In this episode we talk about training in between having babies, and we also talk about how she executes workouts in such a way that she saves enough to lay it all out there on race day. I also maybe sort of invited myself on her family vacation this winter, so there’s that.

Show Notes:

Two Dope Queens

Shu Brew – Jungle Boo IPA

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