Keeping Track

Ep 9: Shalane Flanagan on Coaching, Cooking and Caring


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Links: Ro’s journals and code keepingtrack2020


10-on Shalane’s retirement: the emotions, the decisions, the difficult parts and the shifting of passion from her running to fostering other athlete’s successes, family and other projects

3-How transition from runner to coach affects her support team 

7- the transition to Shalane’s post-running life was always in the back of her mind, part of why it has gone smoothly

8-emotions at the end of running career: sadness, relief, happiness

10-relating to the Lindsey Vonn  documentary the Final Season and the book The Second Mountain by David Brooks

12-retirement isn’t easy stage for athletes

Shalanes double knee surgeries

19-Shalane on wanting it all: coaching, and family, looking to adopt

Link to shalanes journal, third cook book coming out, link to other two Run Fast Eat Slow, Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow

21- Motivation for Elyse and Shalane’s cook books: to help educate athletes on good fuel and combat eating disorders in sports

23-Shalane learning to fuel her body throughout career- not always perfect

27- Hows could/could a coach speak to an athlete about nutrition and weight?

31-Bowerman Babes bond by cooking together

33- Shalane’s feelings on the negative aspects vs positive experiences at Nike: it’s uncomfortable, the positive impact of Bowerman in the Portland community,  lessons she has learned from being adjacent to the story of Mary Cain

40: Shlane: advocate for yourself and be aggressive in going for your dreams”

43- How Shalane learned to be confident and aggressive in going for things she wants-operating on a pace of no regrets



“To not be afraid of advocating for yourself, if you think you’re going to be good at something and for taking that leap of faith to just push people to accept your vision and your goal….I felt like it was a much needed role and I created it for myself”

“I encourage people to be agressive about things that you want”


“ My athletic career has allowed me to continually believe in myself more and more. Its not that i dont have moments of doubt, but athleteics has propelled me to have these moments of ‘why not me’”

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