BONUS - 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Race Recap
Marathon Running Podcast February 05, 202400:20:4419 MB

BONUS - 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Race Recap

In this bonus episode of the Marathon Running Podcast, we bring you an exhilarating race recap of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trial Marathon that unfolded on February 3, 2024. Tune in to hear about the remarkable performance led by Zach Panning, who blazed through the first six miles at an impressive 4:49 mile pace, steering the lead pack alongside Conner Mantz and Clayton Young, the sole runners to meet the 2:08:10 Olympic standard prior to the race. The drama unfolds with unexpected twists, including the departure of seasoned runners like Scott Fauble, Abdi Abdirahman, and Sam Chelanga. Panning's relentless pace and strategic moves beyond the halfway point set the stage for a thrilling race. The intensity peaks as training partners Mantz and Young share a high-five, navigating the last loop with determination. The race for third adds another layer of excitement, culminating in Leonard Korir's impressive comeback in the final mile, securing a third-place finish. Although Korir faces the challenge of meeting the Olympic standard, his podium finish opens doors for potential Team USA representation in Paris. The episode delves into the gripping details, providing a front-row seat to this Olympic Trials spectacle. Don't miss out on this captivating recount with exclusive excerpts from the press conference, making it a must-listen for marathon enthusiasts and sports aficionados alike.


 

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Join us in our running community for weekly content that is motivational, educational and inspirational. [01:44.640 --> 01:50.640] And let the marathon running podcast take you from the starting line to the finish line and beyond. [01:51.640 --> 02:03.640] Hey runners and welcome to this special episode. My name is Letty Lenquist and I'm your host flying solo right now. [02:03.640 --> 02:09.640] This episode is going to be a little bit different. Monday's regular episode has already been posted this morning. [02:09.640 --> 02:16.640] This episode is strictly going to be about the Olympic trials that happened this Saturday, February 3rd, 2024. [02:16.640 --> 02:25.640] If you are not into that, this is a time to log off. However, if you are into this little teaser, we have some audio clips from the press conference that I was lucky to be able to attend. [02:25.640 --> 02:32.640] But the audio quality is not that great. It's not my camera. The press conference took part in a tent. [02:32.640 --> 02:39.640] And there was microphones from the finish line right close to there. So I'm going to excuse the audio. I'm also learning about all of this. [02:39.640 --> 02:46.640] As you guys know, I'm new to YouTube and so it'll improve with time. Just hang in there with me. [02:46.640 --> 02:50.640] Also, excuse my voice today. It's a little horse from cheering on all the runners. [02:50.640 --> 03:00.640] Alright, let's start with the women. The women's marathon trial was won by Fiona O'Keefe who had her debut marathon at the Olympic trials. [03:00.640 --> 03:05.640] She's only 25 years old and her hometown is listed as Sacramento, California. [03:05.640 --> 03:10.640] Residents carry North Carolina. She actually had never done a full marathon before. [03:10.640 --> 03:19.640] So obviously, the view we already had said that. And her qualifying time was a one hour, nine minute and thirty-first second to have marathon. [03:19.640 --> 03:25.640] In second place was Emily Sisson, the American record holder in the marathon distance. [03:25.640 --> 03:30.640] Everybody already knows her. She came in at two hours, 22 minutes and 42 seconds. [03:30.640 --> 03:36.640] And third was Dakota Lindworm coming in at two hours, 25 minutes and 31 seconds. [03:36.640 --> 03:45.640] Dakota Lindworm is 28 years old and she's from Minnesota and her career highlights include being a two-time Grandma Marathon winner in 21 and 22. [03:45.640 --> 03:51.640] Her personal best stays at two 24-40 from Chicago last year. [03:51.640 --> 03:59.640] So all three will be going to the Olympics in August because they have already met the Olympic unlocking standard of two hours, [03:59.640 --> 04:08.640] 26 minutes and 50 seconds. I know that stuff is super complicated, but I think we're kind of getting used to it that, you know, there is a qualifying time of 237, [04:08.640 --> 04:15.640] but then there's also the unlocking standard, which for women was two hours, 26 minutes and 50 seconds. [04:15.640 --> 04:21.640] So before we go into a play-by-play of what was going on in the race with our favorites, let's talk about the men's winner. [04:21.640 --> 04:27.640] Connor Munts came in at two hours, nine minutes and five seconds. [04:27.640 --> 04:34.640] And he was closely finished by his teammate Clayton Young who came in at two hours, nine minutes and six seconds. [04:34.640 --> 04:43.640] So a little bit about Connor Munts. He obviously had already unlocked the Olympic standard for men's, which is the two hours, eight minutes and ten seconds. [04:43.640 --> 04:46.640] He had unlocked it in Chicago last year. [04:46.640 --> 04:52.640] Connor Munts is from Utah and he currently also lives in Utah. He's 27 years old. [04:52.640 --> 05:00.640] His training partner Clayton Young who had come in second, he is 30 years old also from Utah, also currently living in Utah. [05:00.640 --> 05:06.640] And just like his teammate Connor, he had unlocked the two hours, eight minutes and ten seconds Olympic standard also in Chicago. [05:06.640 --> 05:15.640] So you can see there's a lot of friendship and camaraderie and teamwork going on, and we will hop into that later as we listen to a couple of the audio clips [05:15.640 --> 05:19.640] where they talk about their friendship, etc. It's kind of cool. [05:19.640 --> 05:28.640] For third, we had Leonard Corrier coming in. Leonard Corrier came flying through the finish line at two hours, nine minutes and 57 seconds. [05:28.640 --> 05:34.640] Unfortunately, in the past he had not yet run the Olympic standards of two hours, eight minutes and ten seconds. [05:34.640 --> 05:43.640] So there's a few things that we'll get into later that he needs to do in order to actually be sent to the Olympics, which hopefully will happen. [05:43.640 --> 05:51.640] So Leonard is from Kenya, but he's a naturalized citizen currently living in Colado Springs. He's also a U.S. Army runner. [05:51.640 --> 06:01.640] His personal best actually is a 2007-56, which he ran in Amsterdam in 2019. So you know he's definitely able of doing it all. [06:01.640 --> 06:06.640] Alright, so let's kind of go through a little bit of what was happening with our favorites during this race. [06:06.640 --> 06:17.640] First of all, the heat in Orlando at the time of race start was 61 degrees and 59% humidity, which is not ideal for super fast marathon times, [06:17.640 --> 06:24.640] especially when people go out really fast. One of our favorites, Chiara Damato, she was leading the pack in the first mile. [06:24.640 --> 06:35.640] Her pace was a 532 and then the second mile, she ran in a 517 pace, which if they would have kept up that pace, the marathon would have been run in the time of two hours and twice. [06:35.640 --> 06:45.640] So obviously that was very, very fast. So fast that by mile 5, there was only a pack of 14 women in that first group. [06:45.640 --> 06:53.640] And then obviously they settled on a slower pace. I think they went to about 535, 34-ish. [06:53.640 --> 07:00.640] By the time they hit the halfway mark, which was in 1 hour, 11 minutes and 43 seconds. [07:00.640 --> 07:05.640] And that brings the pace up to a 223 pace for the full marathon. [07:05.640 --> 07:17.640] By the time the women reached mile 18, the leading pack had dwindled to only five contenders, which included Okefi, Sisson, Sarah Hall, Betsy, Sina, and Emily Durgen. [07:17.640 --> 07:23.640] Dakota Lindtwarm, who in the end, as you know, came in third, she was about 8 seconds behind. [07:23.640 --> 07:30.640] So that's kind of interesting to how she was able to not drop, but continue working hard and catching them. [07:30.640 --> 07:40.640] So between mile 18 and 19, Okefi, the leader, the debut marathoner, decided to surge ahead with a 522nd mile. [07:40.640 --> 07:51.640] And she created her 5-second lead at that time, which during the press conference she couldn't decide whether she wanted to credit that to her inexperience or not. [07:51.640 --> 08:01.640] That was kind of funny, but she said it felt right, so she actually said maybe a little bit of not knowing what I was getting myself into was a good thing, unquote. [08:01.640 --> 08:14.640] By mile 22, she had a lead over 22 seconds in front of Emily Sisson, and the crowd kept encouraging her and was yelling Paris, Paris at her, so that obviously kept her going. [08:15.640 --> 08:25.640] And going so fast that she ended up doing 519 splits for the 25th mile, which was the fastest mile ever run by any women throughout the entire race day. [08:25.640 --> 08:31.640] Emily Sisson, during the press conference, said that she didn't feel so hot throughout the day. [08:31.640 --> 08:37.640] She said she started hurting earlier than she had expected, but she just kind of stuck with it. [08:37.640 --> 08:45.640] She knew she had already unlocked her time that she needed to be in the Olympics, so she just kept going. [08:45.640 --> 08:55.640] As for Lindworm Sina and Hall, they contested for the third position, and temperatures had gone up at that time. [08:55.640 --> 09:01.640] They were running in 71 degrees, so let that be a lesson for us. [09:01.640 --> 09:03.640] They were just going for it. [09:03.640 --> 09:12.640] At mile 21, Sina withdrew from the race. She went and laid down on the grass. She had just, you know, she was just done. [09:12.640 --> 09:16.640] Sarah Hall also slipped back into fifth place. [09:16.640 --> 09:32.640] Lindworm in the final miles was running splits, including a 554, 544, and a 605 mile, so obviously she had slowed down a lot, but it was not as much as everybody else. [09:32.640 --> 09:40.640] She still had a margin in her third position by 15 seconds in front of McCain, who was really trying to catch her. [09:40.640 --> 09:56.640] Watching these ladies flying through the finish line was absolutely crazy and amazing, and also heartbreaking, because the gap behind them, number 3 and 4 and 5, they weren't that big of a gap. [09:56.640 --> 10:11.640] So, I can't even imagine what must be going through the minds of these athletes that train super hard, and then having a goal, and then finishing and either reaching their goal or being super close and not reaching their goal, that must be super hard breaking [10:11.640 --> 10:15.640] or, you know, celebratory for if you've made it. [10:15.640 --> 10:23.640] So, I've posted some of the videos on our Instagram account. If you want to check them out, we were literally right by the finish line, which was amazing. [10:23.640 --> 10:25.640] So, let's talk about the guys. [10:28.640 --> 10:36.640] At this time, we want to thank our sponsor, Yuchen, a huge tired of a spike in crash and GI distress that comes with the sugar-based sports nutrition. [10:36.640 --> 10:45.640] It's time to give Yuchen a try. You can use steady-release carbs instead of sugars, so you don't feel the highs and the lows in energy. [10:45.640 --> 10:57.640] Yuchen powders, gels, and bars are powered by life-steady, a patent starch-based carbohydrate that was originally developed as a medical food to help children maintain stable blood sugar throughout the night. [10:57.640 --> 11:00.640] It's backed by science and truly unique in energy source. [11:00.640 --> 11:08.640] Clinically proven to help blood sugar, stable during exercise, life-steady supports sustained performance and optimal energy levels. [11:08.640 --> 11:14.640] I've tried Yuchen now for the past couple of months, and I've been happy with my long runs and how I feel. [11:14.640 --> 11:19.640] Also, they don't taste bad, and after mile 15, I can still stomach them. [11:19.640 --> 11:27.640] Top marathon runners in the U.S., including Emily Sisson, Sarah Hall, Emma Bates, and Caritomado all use Yuchen for feelings. [11:27.640 --> 11:29.640] So, why shouldn't you give them a try? [11:29.640 --> 11:35.640] Especially because marathon running podcast listeners have a chance to try four gels for free. [11:35.640 --> 11:37.640] All you pay for is the cost of shipping. [11:37.640 --> 11:48.640] So, head over to yuchen.co forward slash MRP, which, by the way, stands for marathon running podcast to claim this offer and get your free samples. [11:48.640 --> 11:58.640] If you are already using Yuchen and you want that 20% discount, you can just go to yuchen.co and save those 20% with code MRP. [11:58.640 --> 12:04.640] We're also having all this linked in our show notes, and now back to the show. [12:05.640 --> 12:13.640] Alright, so for the guys, the race started obviously in the same temperature, just 10 minutes early at 10.10. [12:13.640 --> 12:20.640] By the 10 key mark, by the time they had reached 6 miles, Zach Panning, who we haven't mentioned before, [12:20.640 --> 12:28.640] but you guys probably know who was 28 years old, and originally from Indiana, he started leading the pack by a mile 6, [12:28.640 --> 12:38.640] going a 4.49 pace mile, obviously creating that lead pack that kept on going further away from most of the runners, [12:38.640 --> 12:42.640] but at that point, most of the favorites were still in the game. [12:42.640 --> 12:49.640] Scott Fobble, who is originally from Colorado, now living in Flagstaff, 32 years old, [12:49.640 --> 12:59.640] ended up dropping between mile 10 and 11, 10 or 11, and then also 5-time Olympian Abdi, Abdi Raman, [12:59.640 --> 13:02.640] he also exited before the halfway point. [13:02.640 --> 13:08.640] Same with Same Shalanga, who is living in Colorado Springs and also an army runner, 38 years old, [13:08.640 --> 13:11.640] he also ended up dropping out of this race. [13:11.640 --> 13:18.640] So now we're at the halfway point where Zach Panning came through at 1 hour, 4 minutes and 7 seconds. [13:18.640 --> 13:27.640] Things continued going great for Panning at mile 16, he actually did another search where he recorded a mile at 4 hours, [13:27.640 --> 13:38.640] I'm sorry, 4 minutes and 48 seconds, and then by mile 17, he had reached a 4 minute 44 mile, which that's obviously crazy fast. [13:38.640 --> 13:46.640] And it was at that time that Galenrop started dropping back, and by mile 19, the lead pack had turned into only 3 people, [13:46.640 --> 13:49.640] which were obviously Panning, Mons and Young. [13:49.640 --> 13:56.640] And by mile 22, however, unfortunately for Panning, he must have started feeling the fatigue because he started dropping back, [13:56.640 --> 14:04.640] training partners Conner months and Clayton Young passed Panning, flew by him, and the battle for the third place started, [14:04.640 --> 14:07.640] which included courier, kibet and Panning. [14:07.640 --> 14:14.640] Although Korea hadn't met the standard, as we've already discussed earlier, he started surging and he did something crazy, [14:14.640 --> 14:21.640] he was going for super fast miles, passing Panning and courier, I'm sorry, kibet in the last mile, [14:21.640 --> 14:26.640] and you could see him fly through the finish line, it was quite hysterical and moving. [14:26.640 --> 14:35.640] So that was that, kibet ended up finishing fourth in 210, 02, and then CJ Albertson finished fifth in 210, 07, [14:35.640 --> 14:40.640] and Panning unfortunately came in sixth at 210.50. [14:40.640 --> 14:46.640] Same as with the women's, the men's race was absolutely exhilarating to watch, seeing them run through that finish line, [14:46.640 --> 14:50.640] getting the flag put on them, again, we have Instagram videos on that, [14:50.640 --> 14:54.640] seeing them reunite with their families, it was super moving, and that was that. [14:54.640 --> 14:59.640] Shortly after that was the press conference, and as promised, I'm not going to pay a couple of audio clips. [14:59.640 --> 15:05.640] Unfortunately, I was unable to get good audio for the women when I tried to clean it up. [15:05.640 --> 15:12.640] I don't know if it was because we as women speak more softly, or because the finish line festivities started getting louder, [15:12.640 --> 15:18.640] I had a really hard time cleaning that, but the first clip is about Connor Muntz, and Clayton Young being asked [15:18.640 --> 15:24.640] what they were doing at the finish line, it looked like Clayton Young had a lot more energy left in him than Connor Muntz. [15:24.640 --> 15:30.640] However, he stepped back and let Connor Muntz go across the finish line first, and here is that. [15:31.640 --> 15:37.640] You got about ten meters from the finish line, and Clayton, you just said, go ahead. [15:37.640 --> 15:42.640] Did you guys rehearse that? How did you decide anything that hurt the day when you were going to come in second? [15:42.640 --> 15:50.640] There was absolutely no rehearsal, I was just trying to get in the finish line. [15:50.640 --> 15:57.640] The trick is possible, because I thought I might collapse and not finish, and I think Clayton was enjoying it more. [15:57.640 --> 16:00.640] Yeah, I just wanted to enjoy everything that's in the finish line. [16:00.640 --> 16:07.640] About two miles out, I just knew that we could get them together, and even though I might have been feeling better, [16:07.640 --> 16:12.640] I just wanted to take the rest of the way with Connor, over those last couple miles, and that's how it shook out. [16:12.640 --> 16:19.640] I wouldn't change the world. Connor is the one that has opened me from this entire bill, taking the day out of practice, [16:19.640 --> 16:25.640] and I think he works hard, and he deserves this just as much as I do, and definitely is a team member. [16:26.640 --> 16:31.640] Alright, so that was super inspirational, in the second clip, kind of also inspirational. [16:31.640 --> 16:38.640] Connor months and Clayton Young are being asked what they were thinking about Zach panning and his pacing and doing all that. [16:38.640 --> 16:40.640] So here is that. [16:41.640 --> 16:50.640] When I saw Zach hit the front about five and a half miles or so, I took Clayton and there were a couple people between us, [16:50.640 --> 16:55.640] and I just looked at him, and just didn't even nod, didn't even say anything. [16:55.640 --> 17:00.640] And I just looked at him, he looked at me, and then I was like, that's what we're going for. [17:00.640 --> 17:07.640] And so I was just like, I just wanted Clayton to know if I was going to go Zach, and when he started running for 40 highs, [17:07.640 --> 17:11.640] I was like, okay, I know we're eating a whole, like, [17:11.640 --> 17:16.640] either we're going to run away from everyone, or everyone is going to go with this pack, [17:16.640 --> 17:20.640] and it's going to be able to hold it, and it ended up being a little bit of both. [17:20.640 --> 17:25.640] But it was quite new. [17:25.640 --> 17:35.640] Yeah, I got to see Zach shortly after the race, and honestly, my heart breaks for Zach for taking six, [17:35.640 --> 17:38.640] because he gets what made that race happen today. [17:38.640 --> 17:44.640] I was kind of struggling the first lap, honestly, and it wasn't until that second lap of the eight-mile loop [17:44.640 --> 17:48.640] that we started to kind of pull away, and my confidence started to build as we started dropping people. [17:48.640 --> 17:55.640] And she's the one that made that happen, and shortly, you know, after mile 20, when he started slowing down a little bit, [17:55.640 --> 18:00.640] Connor hadn't looked at each other, and you could tell that he wasn't feeling too hot. [18:00.640 --> 18:05.640] So that was the point which we took the lead, and we said to him, stick on us. [18:05.640 --> 18:08.640] We're going to go and get that stand, and we're going to eat that third spot. [18:08.640 --> 18:14.640] And that's when, you know, Connor took the lead for a while, and Zach got on the back, [18:14.640 --> 18:19.640] and I just kept telling him, stick on us, because we honestly went exactly where he made this race happen. [18:19.640 --> 18:26.640] Big coughs to him, and the Hanson Project for developing such a strong athlete, Zach. [18:26.640 --> 18:29.640] You know, we came out to Orlando a couple of weeks ago, and we got to one of them, [18:29.640 --> 18:34.640] and we figured out everybody's going to bet the person, and my heart goes out to them, [18:34.640 --> 18:38.640] and I want to see him in America, I want him to come, and he's not. [18:39.640 --> 18:42.640] This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Wild Cherry. [18:42.640 --> 18:49.640] Pepsi Wild Cherry is bursting with delicious cherry flavor and a sweet crisp taste that gives you more to go wild for. [18:49.640 --> 18:55.640] Getting wild may look different these days, but whether it's opting for a solo Friday binge watch [18:55.640 --> 19:00.640] or a big night out, everyone can indulge in their wild side with Pepsi Wild Cherry. [19:00.640 --> 19:05.640] Also available in zero sugar, so grab a Pepsi Wild Cherry and get wild. [19:09.640 --> 19:16.640] Alright, so clip number three, the question was, what was Clayton doing in the last couple of miles? [19:16.640 --> 19:21.640] Yeah, first, my conversation with Connor with the last couple of miles was just simply, [19:22.640 --> 19:31.640] let's do this, we're doing it, stick on me, relax, it was, and then even within the last couple of hundred meters, [19:31.640 --> 19:34.640] I was just like, enjoy it, enjoy it, soak it in, soak it in. [19:34.640 --> 19:36.640] Those were kind of my interests to him. [19:36.640 --> 19:44.640] When I peeled off to, you know, kind of make that jut out, actually, I think back to Matt, [19:44.640 --> 19:50.640] I listened to Matt's book probably close to a dozen times over the last year or two, [19:50.640 --> 19:55.640] and he talks about grabbing the American flag and coming into the finish for one of his trials, [19:55.640 --> 20:00.640] and so I jutted over to actually grab an American flag to wave it as I came into the finish, [20:00.640 --> 20:05.640] but there just wasn't a flag, and I didn't want it to be cute, and so I kind of, I was nervous. [20:05.640 --> 20:11.640] And so I jutted back out to the middle, and it was kind of a good comment, but that's why I'm wearing the flag now, [20:11.640 --> 20:16.640] and it means a lot to me, but it just, that's what I was doing. [20:16.640 --> 20:22.640] All right, so last but not least, to wrap this all up beautifully here, Eric Clayton Young, [20:22.640 --> 20:25.640] and Connor Munns about their friendship. [20:25.640 --> 20:30.640] It's why he has this breakfast after you're in our rent sometimes, in my rent in the night of things, [20:30.640 --> 20:32.640] and he has it a couple of times. [20:35.640 --> 20:38.640] Just a great relationship, a great friendship. [20:39.640 --> 20:42.640] Absolutely, I definitely agree. [20:43.640 --> 20:46.640] I was just saying that it's almost as close to America as we would think. [20:46.640 --> 20:48.640] We have our disagreements sometimes. [20:48.640 --> 20:50.640] We're fighting for all we get. [20:50.640 --> 20:54.640] We're very, very competitive, but, you know, not today, Satan. [20:54.640 --> 20:58.640] We've definitely been able to work through the competitive news, and if I'm not on topic, [20:58.640 --> 21:01.640] I think in the day, Connor and I are better than we work together. [21:01.640 --> 21:06.640] We knew that going into this race, we knew that working together through models 22, 23, 24 was our best bet, [21:06.640 --> 21:08.640] and now we would carry each other to the finish line. [21:09.640 --> 21:15.640] That was even more of a testament to today, to be worked together to break away and to finish 1-2. [21:15.640 --> 21:23.640] And that's just, you know, something to practice day-to-day out, and we had to do that relationship today. [21:25.640 --> 21:29.640] Beautiful, right? Especially the breakfast-making part of this. [21:29.640 --> 21:35.640] It just shows the camaraderie between them, and that we don't have to compete against others. [21:35.640 --> 21:39.640] We can use others to help us be faster and be better. [21:39.640 --> 21:45.640] So be your own competition, and this wraps up the podcast for this week. [21:45.640 --> 21:50.640] And if you haven't listened to this morning's podcast yet, where we talk about energy metabolism [21:50.640 --> 21:55.640] and what happens to our bodies with an expert, of course, then do yourself a favor and do that [21:55.640 --> 22:00.640] because you might learn something that will help you do a better marathon next time. [22:00.640 --> 22:02.640] And with that, have a great week of running. [22:06.640 --> 22:08.640] Thanks for tuning in. [22:08.640 --> 22:15.640] For more information and marathon running news, please head to www.marathonrunningpodcast.com [22:15.640 --> 22:17.640] and we'll be back next week. Transcription results written to '/home/forge/transcribe2.sonicengage.com/releases/20240205230933' directory