Nell is the Bolder Boulder 10k Champion from 2019 after her dad won that race 40 years before. She grew up loving that race and always had the dream of winning that race! You’ll get to hear about that in this episode!

Most recently, she ran a 32:11 to qualify for the Olympic Trials in the 10k coming off of a year of a few injuries. She is feeling confident and ready to get out there to compete so I am excited to see what she does at the trials!

What we talked about:

6:00- Qualifying for the Olympic Trials in the 10k

6:55- The injury that she had after the Olympic Trials marathon race

9:15- Mindset going into the Olympic Trials marathon and recapping her race there

17:40- How she feels going into the Olympic Trials 10k

30:05- Change in training switching from the marathon to the track

33:00- Racing with fearlessness

34:55- Debuting at the marathon at CIM while training for an Ironman

36:05- Training for triathlon after college

37:10- Competing in obstacle course racing

44:00- Her first few marathons

44:50- Winning the Bolder Boulder 10k

50:35- Last workouts going into the Olympic Trials

54:05- End of podcast questions

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Kellyn Taylor joins me on the show today to talk about her huge PR and course record at Grandma’s Marathon. Kellyn ran a 2:24:28, shattering the course record by 2 minutes, taking 4 minutes off her PR of 2:28 and becoming the 7th fastest American Woman in the marathon of all time.  She bounced back to run this race, just 8 weeks after a DNF at the Boston Marathon due to hypothermia.

Kellyn is a Mother, a Wife, a Certified Firefighter and runs professionally for NAZ Elite and Hoka One One under coach Ben Rosario. She has been training her butt off for years for a day like she had at Grandma’s. Kellyn has a long list of huge accomplishments, like finishing 6th at the Olympic Marathon Trails and 4th in the 10K Marathon Trials in 2016. Kellyn has big hopes and dreams for the 2020 trials and I do believe this 2:24 puts her in the game more than she already was.

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As Glenn was heading out the door later than usual at 8:30 this morning, I stopped him- knowing that we were leaving in the next 5-10 minutes to get Marshall to pre-school and said “HEY, if you would leave 5 minutes later and just help me load these kids up in the car, that would really help my Monday morning and also help us get there on time.” I feel like that would have been the obvious thing to do, but sometimes you gotta shout it out. AMIRIGHT?

Also, I have a confession. I had a glass of wine last night. I’m still committed to the mostly no booze in January, but here’s the deal- I was feeling ansy- probably about it being Sunday night. The Sunday night blues that come even when there’s no reason for them. I wanted to relax and decided a glass of wine would do the trick and it did. Glenn was all shaking his head, but he’s still in the game- 4 days in!

I had a 60 minute run with a 20 minute fast finish scheduled for this weekend, but the legs were not feeling it, so I saved it for today.

I started the run off feeling pretty great. Like I was sure I would get real comfortable 30 minutes in and be ready to run hard for those last 20. NEGATIVE. I warmed up around a 9:00 mile for 10 minutes and slowly started speeding up until I reached an 8:00 minute mile 35 minutes into the run. Going into the run, I wasn’t sure what “fast finish” would be to me where I am right now. It’s a slow progress to get back to where I was. I was heavy breathing at that 8:00 minute mile. Grrrrrrr. With 20 minutes to go I sped up to a 7:30 mile (which felt like 6:45) and held on there for 10 minutes, took a 30 second breather and finished off 5 more minutes between 7:08-7:15, cooling down the last 5 minutes of the 60.

The run wasn’t super discouraging, it could of been, but I choose for it not to be. I mean I was a little annoyed that the effort felt so challenging. (I was huffing and puffing and grunting up a storm those last 5 minutes). I feel as though I’m in better shape than what I felt during the workout. I’m definitely a far way from where I was this summer and where I want to be, but this workout should serve as a good reminder that whether we are in peak shape or “just getting back at it” shape, there are days when things just feel off and the speed isn’t there. And that’s ok.

I’m gonna ride the bike for 60 minutes tomorrow and am trying a Barre class at Liverite fitness with some Athletic Annex ladies, so that should be fun. I do plan on being hella sore after the barre class!

Who’s a regular at Barre classes? They are kind of expensive and I have a hard to committing to that when there are so many great free classes sort of similar at the Y.

If you know Glenn, you know he loves a good IPA. If you know me, you know I love a good buzz.

I’ve got no problem with the extra winter layer that has settled in, but we figured eliminating some of the beer intake might help the situation at hand without extra actual work. Let’s be smart.

When we made the goal, I immediately thought; craaaaaaap, I’m going to Salt ‘n’ Peppa at the Vogue with a bunch of girls in January. I’m not interested in this January goal. So we decided it was no booze at home. Out at social events or dinner, fine. We don’t go to dinner all that much and it’s January soooooo, it shouldn’t be too much booze. We’ll keep track and report back. The only thing you need to know right now is I caught Glenn drinking hot tea last night. That’s unheard of.

Glenn also added our 2016 marathon goals to the board this morning. He is adamant about my goal being sub 3:00, but I’m adamant about it being 3:05, because ain’t nobody got time to be stressed out about running fast. I did register for Grandma’s and also plan to run Carmel- not sure yet if I’ll be running Carmel fastish or pacing. Need to decide in the next week or so.

Here is a rundown:

• January: no booze at home

• 2016 Athletic Goals : < 3:05 for me, < 2:45 for Glenn, Beat my 2013 Muncie 70.3 time. (5:55:17. Lucky me, I heard they changed the bike course the year after I did it and it’s a bit faster. I’ll take any help I can get on the bike!)

• Give more:
  • Action 1: Signed up for automatic monthly donation to the PourHouse.
    • I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time. Ever since, Andrea who runs the organization put up a facebook post one day when she was feeling frustrated. Everyone “likes” and encourages when she posts something about a success, like someone moving into housing. BUT, your “likes” do not equal sustainability of the program. Your dollars will though. Ok, take action Lindsey. Liking her posts isn’t helping.
  •   Action 2: Signed up to volunteer for Circle City Relief.
    • My first volunteer shift is this Sunday. I was specifically interested in this organization because it meets in my neighborhood. I can walk across the street to where they serve. Part of the reason we like being in the city is so that we aren’t living in a bubble, but you can certainly live in the city and still live in a bubble.
  • Action 3: Adopt another sponsor child. (we have one sponsor child through Compassion- I’ve been with them for 11 years! That seems crazy long looking back. I was 21 when I started) Now that Marshall is getting older, he can start interacting and being part of the experience)
  • I write the actions, because I hope putting them here will hold me accountable. I hope I don’t sound pretentious. I do think if we all talk about these kind of things, it encourages others to step up though, so why not talk about it. I also don’t want it to stop here, but I think writing some specific things down is a good starting place.

• Read More, Social Media less. I don’t think I need to expand here.
  • I’ve been reading Jen Hatmaker books like it’s nobody’s business over the past couple of months. “For the Love”, “Seven” and “Interrupted.” I have purposely been reading them because I fully believe that if we don’t seek interruption in our lives (these books talk on this), we will sit in a stale- maybe happy, but stale life where we are just living for ourselves and our own families. And we just weren’t created to live like that. It can be overwhelming to think of all the problems and all the issues in the world that we have no control over, but doing nothing at all isn’t helping anyone.
  • I just started re-reading “Half the Sky” and plan to read “A Path Appears” when I’m done.

• This is where I want to write down a goal to have a better garden this year. I’m not feeling super organized about that yet though, so let’s check back. I need some tangible goals or something.

What are your 2016 running goals? Life goals? 

Who has book suggestions? I like for fun, education (if not too smarty pants) and anything that encourages to do better. You know what I mean.