Keeping Track

Molly and Ro host a group run in Providence RI to support Alysia's &Mother Mom Forward 5k fundraiser. They held a live podcast afterward at Marathon Sports discussing the intersection of running, career and motherhood. Thanks to Vita Coco and Run Rhody for supporting this event and to support &Mother and all of Alysia's impactful work head to the link!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buy All in Stride Here!We are speaking about the new book All In Stride by author Johanna Garton featuring the intertwining running journeys of Shadrack Kipchirchir and his wife Elvin Kibet as they go from young kids in Kenya to sports careers in the US NCAA system and US Army. Elvin has joined us as well and we will link back to her pre Olympic trials interview with us in February if you missed it. Elvin was a 6 time all American while at university of Arizona and qualified for the USA Olympic Trials Marathon 18 months post partum after having her first baby, her son Mylo in 2022. Her husband Shadrack had made multiple US World Championship teams and the 2016 US Olympic Team in the 10,000m.  Johanna is an author who in addition to writing All In Stride a has written such books as Edge Of The Map which is based on the lives of trailblazing mountaineer Christine Boskoff and her partner Charlie Fowler and Awakening East about moving her adopted children back to China for a year- her website is http://JohannaGarton.com .Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Molly and Alysia introduce Keeping Track X &Mother's newest partnership: The Mother's Lane; a series keeping up with athlete moms . We're going deep on the topics around the intersection of motherhood and sport with some of the amazing Mom's on the track, roads, sport leadership spaces and beyond. We'll talk about things like training while pregnant, post partum return to running, and a variety of challenges and topics cantered around thriving in career and motherhood . Come join in the conversation in the Mother's Lane! Today we talk with Makenna Myler, who recently finished 7th at the US Olympic Marathon Trials and has 2 kids under 3 years old. She has run a sub 5:20 mile in her third trimester (!) and has recent PBs of 68:28 at half marathon and 2:26:14 marathon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our final installment of the Marathon Team nTrials spotlight is Seargent Elvin KibetElvin was a 6 time All American while at the University of Arizona graduating in 2015 -you can read more about her story and her childhood in Iten Kenya in the book All In Stride by Johanna Garton which comes out this spring! Its about the journeys of Elvin and her husband (US Olympian Shadrack Kipchirchir) as they come the the US and chase Olympic dreams in the WCAP program via the US Army. Elvin Is debuting in the marathon distance this weekend and speaks about navigating post partum training after having her son Mylo in 2022 and her interest in public health and using her education to help her village back in Kenya.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our second installment in our miniseries of spotlights around the women of the 2024 USA Olympic Team Trials Marathon is Fiona O’Keeffe.As a 6 time all American at Stanford graduating in 2020 Fiona got to chase some fast women on her own team in the middle distance events. She steps up to the Marathon as one of a few women debuting in the distance at the trials. Since joining the Puma Elite running team with coaches Amy Hastings Cragg and Alistair Cragg, Fiona has run great times as the events got longer like her 10k pb of 30:52 and 67:42 in the half - I think 26.2 will follow this trend and we can’t wait to watch her run the event! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Erika's debut marathon this past spring she became the fastest American Born Black Woman Marathoner, she's also a two time USA road Champion and fresh off a big half marathon PB. She tells us about her preparations for the upcoming Olympic Team Trials Marathon on Feb 3rd -spoiler it's going well!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alysia and Molly have a conversation with Canadian Olympian (2004 and 2021!) and former record holder Malindi Elmore on her journey in the sport: takeing a step back during a burned out phase, exploring other sports and kinds of training, becoming a Mother and finding herself in a while new event and more Olympic berths at age 43! This was a live podcast from Oct 24th and there are some great listener questions at the end.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly chats with Natoya about her off season plans, breaking her own National record at the Diamond Leage Final, her philanthropic goals, how she's getting faster with age and how injury and a car accident almost derailed her 2023 season.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We last spoke to Tori in early 2022 and a lot has happened since! She is publishing her book You Anthem, building a non-profit and heading to the World Championships in Hungary as the US Champion and 2022 World Championship bronze medalist. Listen in on what's going on off the track and how she stays motivated on the track.You Anthem LiveHappyRetreats on instagram @livehappii_retreatsFollow Tori on insta @livehappii and hereLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices