The 1609 Podcast

This week, the big news was the new qualifying standards from the IAAF. We spent the bulk of our time on this. We also talked NCAAs, USATF 15k championships, Mo Farah's half marathon and Kara Goucher's race schedule! We also talked a little bit about the 5k getting dropped from the Diamond League schedule (again, thanks to the IAAF).

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We finally have an interview for you, and it is absolutely worth the wait. Last week, we mentioned that Luke Puskedra retired. This week, we were lucky enough to have him on the show to talk about his career and what's next for him. We also covered Euro champs and had a quick Tokyo recap. This is a long run, so enjoy it! Thanks again to Luke Puskedra for coming on!

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I'm not going to lie. We led off with talk about projectile vomit. It got better from there, though. We talked USA Indoors, Tinman results around the world, some interesting news from Paris 2024, the retirement of Luke Puskedra, and Wayde Van Niekerk's return to racing for the first time since 2017 Worlds! Finally, we finished up with some really engaging listener questions.

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This is a special one! We've got two 5K road world records, some fast track times, an interesting 10K, some finality about Pre this year, and most importantly, the mascot for Doha was released. 

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We led off this week's show with discussion of some fantastic new products from Mo Farah (and a conspiracy), then dove right into results. We covered RAK Half, everything that happened at Millrose, Ritz finished a race, Youn-gebrigtsten set some records, and finally...another conspiracy! A Coburnspiracy, if you will.

We mentioned Kemoy Campbell's GoFundMe for his medical expenses in the show. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here. Jon Gault of LetsRun.com has a great tweet explaining why the GoFundMe is there, if you're interested.

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This episode was packed. We talked USATF XC, Australian XC trials, Sugaru Osaka's causal 63:00 half, more Russian doping, Zane Robertson's contract and where he's going to be running in the future, and much more. We got a great question in from Robert about the Allie Kieffer scale post on Instagram that has upset some folks over the last week too.

Thank you to our newest Best Friend of the Pod, Randall Mullis!

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This week, we were happy to host Mario Fraioli for the interview portion of the podcast! We're in the swing of indoor season now, and had a couple of meets to cover, including Dr. Sanders Invite and a rather exciting New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. We also recapped a super speedy Dubai Marathon, and covered the Tokyo Marathon elite field. We also had talk of running books, movies, and a very very specific indoor record from an Aggie.

Thanks to Mario Fraioli for coming on the show! You can find him at @mariofraioli and @theAMshakeout.

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It's another week of the 1609 pod, and we had quite a bit to cover this week. First up was the Houston Half Marathon, which nearly saw another American record. Next, we mourned Usain Bolt's bourgeoning soccer career and talked a bit about Dubai's prize purse and what it takes to be an IAAF Platinum race. After that, we covered some coaching changes and sponsor changes and took a look at the London Marathon start list.

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This week, we picked up right where we left off last week (literally) and started the episode discussing the Centro to Bowerman move. We did a quick recap of a couple of races at UW Preview, talked about Hillary Bor's win at Stirling XC, covered the newly announced London elite field and Boston international elite field, discussed the new World Relays events, and Alex had a conspiracy theory about the newly-formed Vatican track team. Finally, we posed the episode's titular question: Where do the bananas go? Runner's World had the answer for us, and the discussion was absolutely bananas. (Puns.)

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The Miles to Trials interviews are going to be interviews with runners who have qualified for the US Olympic Trials in our typical interview format. Sam Roecker was kind enough to be our first interview, and we were thrilled to talk to her.

Sam Roecker finished third at the US Marathon Championships at CIM in 2018 with a 2:30:25 marathon time behind Emma Bates and Stephanie Bruce. We got to talk to her about what she does for a living, how she fits running in around her job, how she got to where she is from middle school to now, and what's next for her in the run up to the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials and Tokyo.

You can follow Sam on Instagram at @samroecker and on Twitter at @samroecker_. 

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