Keeping Track Evergreen Podcasts

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.

 Our final installment of the Marathon Team nTrials spotlight is Seargent Elvin Kibet
Elvin 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.

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! 

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!

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.