Keeping Track speaks with US 800m runner Valery Tobias about her start in the sport, her time on the team at the University of Texas, transitioning to professional Track and on making her first World Champs team ! Tune in to her first round race 11:15 am March 21st on peacock!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I talk to Erika Kemp, who 6 weeks ago ran a big PB with her 2:22 runner up finish at the Houston Marathon. We tried to pivot from race talk since it’s been re-hashed on many a pod so for those links check out our episode page at www.keeping-track.com (and sign up for the email list to stay up to date on future episodes show notes and links)! Erika bettered her record as the fastest American-born Black Woman Marathoner and landed 12 on the US women's marathon all-time list. We talk about...

We're realizing stereotypical sports fandom is actually male sports fandom- but the numbers are in, and they say the ladies are here and they love sports too! In fact Wasserman Collectives newest data set shows that over 70% of women surveyed from 30 countries consider themselves an avid sports fan! With a majority control of discretionary spending, they are an invaluable demographic. How do women experience sports fandom differently, and what's not so different? Why does it matter and how ca...

Aisha Praught-Leer is an Olympian, the 2018 Commonwealth Games Steeplechase Champion, and has held Jamaican records from the 1500m to the 5000m....but some of her favorite moments in sport are from the parts you never got to see! Molly and Aisha also get into how she decided to structure her retirement, what she is doing now, the mental transition and it's challenges, what she'd like to see improve in the sport as a whole and what gives her hope. Thanks for Keeping Track!Learn more about your...

Alysia and Molly talk about some of the &Mother initiatives and beyond in how to support Mother Athletes at the Olympics and Paralympic Games. "What we want for female athletes is to allow them to be holistically themselves....this is what I tell my daughter. You have an opportunity to be yourself, you have an opportunity to be an upstander and you have the opportunity to leave the world better than you found it and if you listen to every negative voice....you are going to be the one who'...

Dr. Jessica Gall Myrick was a 3 time all American distance runner while at Indiana University and went on to become a social scientist and full professor at Penn State University. We talk about her work studying Media Psychology and health and given her running background we dive into how it relates to women’s sports- which she is equipped to speak on. In 2020 she did a study to see what happens to audiences when commentators use sexist language around women’s sport .Links to Jessica’s publis...

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 Olymp...

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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 c...

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 deb...

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...

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

Be an Underbird with Oiselle! Apply today!We catch Up with Justine in Hungary leading into the 2024 World Athletic Championships and speak on her Hungarian (and French/ Caribbean) background , how she has "pieces of her heart all over the world", her athletic carreer, her creative work, her work with Oiselle and her hopes and goals for the sport of Track and Field!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly interviews Ro about athlete Mental Health. Roisin McGettigan-Dumas is of course our Co-Host, but also: a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (and 2012 Olympian in Track and Field!) and also coaches athletes on sport performance psychology. We chat about the information Ro Learned from the IOC's new course on Athlete Mwntal Health and share resources for athlete screening. Ro also talks about how she found her passion for this field, working with young athletes, barriers to seeking a provid...

Check out their website for inquiries on joining or supporting!Social media announces events: @angelcityeliteAngel City Elite is a women's running group based in the Los Angelese area. Their athletes have competed at the US Olympic Trials Marathon and other track and road races around the country. They are a small group of runners now but hope to support more women who want to contitnue to train at a high level post collegiately and also offer support to youth athletes as well as host communi...

Liberty AC is the oldest all women’s track club in the country, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. I speak to president of the board Viki Bok and official- unofficial team historian Alda Cossi (both women are competitive members of the masters running scene).Liberty has run through the gauntlet of sea changes in society via womens sport:It began as a new england sports club for young boys, and soon also became an opportunity for girls in sport when there were none-as schools did not ...