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“This journey is all about the legacy I want to leave behind to motivate the young generation. It’s not all about getting the world record and we are done. I still need more to motivate the young generation to know that ‘Faith was there and she did this. She was the Olympic champion and world champion. Now she’s a record holder.’ I still need to show girls the way and all women.” My guest for this bonus episode this week is two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon. I’ve had her on the show before but I had a chance to chat with her one-on-one for a little bit on my trip to Kenya last month. This was just two weeks after she ran the world records. On June 2, she became the first woman under 3:50 for 1500m with a 3:49.11 at the Florence Diamond League. That record was a long time coming for her since she’s the undisputed greatest of all-time in the 1500m. A week later, she stunned herself running 14:05.20 to break the 5000m world record at the Paris Diamond League. She's a big deal. If you go to Kenya, you

"Being injured it's so easy to think, 'This is it! This is all she wrote! That was a good run, Keira.' You can't help but let your mind go there. It was the fact that I was able to have another high and I never thought I'd get to experience anything like I experienced in Houston with that day. It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime thing that I got to experience. Part of me said, 'That might be it!' The fact that I experienced something else that was a different kind of high and win was special. That week, I doubted if I would even make it to the starting line. My daughter was having a hard time with me going so there was a lot of mom guilt going on...It was a lot of doubts and insecurities. The whole time 'hope' was a word that kept coming to mind. I hoped that I could get through it. I hoped that I would have another moment. I hoped that I could hit a big goal like that again. I was positive but you just never know if it will happen. That's where all the emotion came

"Last year, I can’t even begin to tell you where my head was at. I was dealing with a lot. My dad had passed away. My girlfriend had just broken up with me. We found out that we were making this move to Eugene...Finally, this year – I’m in a new situation. The training is going super well. I feel my engine is stronger than ever. This is a good time. What do I think I can do? I think the pipedream is that I can win the whole thing. But that’s not how I’m going to go in. I’m going to go in to compete, take every wave and hit every move." My guest for today’s episode is Woody Kincaid. The former CITIUS MAG Podcaster is back after winning the U.S. 10,000 meter title for the second time in three years. He won in 28:23.01 – which was highlighted by a 54.76s for the final lap and a 26.43 for the last 200m. He finished 9th in the 5000m, which he will lend further context to. This is the first time that he joins the show since switching coaches from Jerry Schumacher and the Bowerman Track Club last year to M

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the fourth day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: – Rai Benjamin missed eight weeks of training in May and June and stormed back to a 46.62s win in the 400m hurdles – Shamier Little is back on top with the women's 400m hurdles title for the first time since 2015 – Gabby Thomas clocked the sixth-fastest 200m in history (21.60 seconds) and overtook Shericka Jackson as the fastest woman this year. – Erriyon Knighton, 19, became the youngest U.S. men's champion in a track event in 43 years by winning the 200m in 19.72 seconds. – Nia Akins won the 800m by overtaking Raevyn Rogers in the final 100 meters. Ajeé Wilson, a two-time world bronze medalist, missed out on a global championship team for the first time since 2012 due to an unspecified issue. – Katie Moon won the pole vault with a clearance of 4.90 meters, the best mark in the world this year. – Brooke Anderse

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the third day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: – – Nikki Hiltz and Yared Nuguse winning the 1500m – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran the second-fastest 400m in U.S. history in the 400m race with a time of 48.74 seconds. – Sha'Carri Richardson ran an impressive 21.61 in the first round of the 200m – although the tailwind exceeded the allowable limit for record purposes, it matched the sixth-fastest time in history under all conditions. – Nia Ali, a 34-year-old athlete and mother, won the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.37 seconds, her best time in four years. – Field events saw surprises with Sam Kendricks and KC Lightoot tying for fourth place in the pole vault, and world champion Chase Ealey finishing fourth in the shot put. You can watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/T8eouQ6P2lQ?feature=share The show is presented by Under Armour Running FOR COMPL

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the second day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: Sha'Carri Richardson won her first U.S. 100m title in 10.82 seconds, ahead of Brittany Brown (10.90) and Tamari Davis (10.99) who also qualified for the U.S. 100m team for the first time. In the men's 100m race, relative unknown Cravont Charleston upset 2019 World champion Christian Coleman to become the U.S. champion with Noah Lyles taking the third spot. Anna Hall won the heptathlon with 6,677 points and secured her spot on the world team Harrison Williams achieved a personal best of 8,630 points to win the decathlon title. Vashti Cunningham claimed her sixth consecutive high jump title. Donald Scott emerged victorious in the triple jump. More... You can watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/guMfYDsDcXM?feature=share The show is presented by Under Armour Running FOR COMPLETE COVERA

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison, Jasmine Todd and Dana Giordano recap the first day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. We saw surprises in the men's and women's 1500m; Sydney McLaughlin cruised through the 400m first round; some big names didn't make it out of the first round of the men's 100m; six members of the U.S. team for Budapest were determined in the 10,000m. You can watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/V_DrxxVCBwg?feature=share The show is presented by Under Armour Running FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE USATF OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com

Kelsey Quinn has just been announced as the new assistant coach of the On Athletics Club. She will be working closely alongside coach Dathan Ritzenhein and team operations manager Andrew Wheating. She brings with her a decade of coaching experience at the NCAA level. She just spent three years as the assistant coach at Utah. She also has experience from stops in Portland, Washington, Warner Pacific, Grand View University and Iowa State. She was actually a sprinter at the University of Iowa, who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 400m hurdles. So how did she end up landing a job with one of the best professional distance teams? It started with a LinkedIn posting and then a series of interviews. In this conversation, you’ll get to know Kelsey better and hear all the ins and outs of the process. She also shares what goals she has for herself and the team in the coming months. Host: Chris Chavez | @Chris_J_Chavez on Instagram Guest: Kelsey Quinn | @coachkquinn on Instagram SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS

"Even in the first week, it's just extremely apparent that this is the perfect environment for me. We've already done workouts that would pretty much have been impossible for me before, but I think it's just having so many World Championship Olympic quality guys in a train that I can just hop into and be a part of that just really elevates every athlete. A lot of people think you become the average of the people you spend the most time around–and these guys are just the absolute best in the world" Charles Hicks who is coming off a runner-up finish in the 10,000 meters at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, where he finished right behind his Stanford teammate Ky Robinson.  Last November, he made history as the first runner from Stanford University to win an NCAA individual cross country title. In his four years at Stanford, he has earned multiple All-American and Pac-12 honors and titles. In addition to all of the collegiate success, he is a two-time European under-23 cro

"The six stars is still the dream. We’re still seeing what will happen but it’s still a dream." It’s been two months since Eliud Kipchoge walked off Boylston Street following a sixth-place finish at the Boston Marathon. It was a bit of a shocker for him. He, entered the weekend with 15 wins in 17 marathons and looking to check off Boston from his list of the World Marathon Majors that he has yet to win. The ideal plan would have been win Boston, win New York and then focus on becoming the first man to win three Olympic gold medals in the marathon. Not everyone gets the storybook ending. The Boston victory will have to wait. Plans for the fall have yet to be announced but are expected soon. I was invited to Kenya by the NN Running Team to get a first-hand look at how Kipchoge lives and trains in his camp in Kaptagat. I witnessed a morning workout on the track, a 40K long run, a strength session and also got to join in on an easy run. It was easy for him – not so much for me. I stayed on the heels of

"We think of ourselves as people on a journey. So when you get to your first station, that's not the end of the journey. We still have to walk some more distance. That is their mindset and it's my mindset because if I dwell on the past, then we'll end up in that station. We still have many to cover, and I’m happy that they still trust me to cover their distance and be with them." CITIUS MAG is in Kenya. I am coming to you live from Eldoret, where I had the pleasure of being invited to visit and cover some of the behind-the-scenes of how the NN Running Team trains. Coach Patrick Sang is 59 years old and is the man behind all of Kipchoge’s success on the track and the roads. He’s the runner who Eliud grew up admiring since Sang was a silver medalist in the steeplechase at the 1992 Olympics. He’s been coaching for more than half his life and is one of the most knowledgeable men in the sport. While he keeps it traditional and old-school in some of his approaches to training with three hard w

"I always define the impossible as possible. Nothing is impossible to me. I always put my mind to do impossible things." Montverde Academy rising senior Adaejah Hodge shook the track and field world when she won the New Balance Nationals Indoor 200m title in 22.33 seconds. The performance broke the previous record of 22.97 by Bianca Knight, which stood since 2007. Hodge also qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary later this summer, where she will represent the British Virgin Islands. She holds the BVI national records in the outdoor 100m (11.11s) and indoor 200m (22.33s). On Memorial Day weekend, we paid a visit to Clermont, Florida to witness her work on her powerful start and smooth stride alongside coach Gerald Phiri.  The 17-year-old has tremendous potential to become one of the best sprinters in the world. Her work ethic and her personality are unmatched for someone her age. Hodge is entered in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 4x200m relay and 4x400m relay and sprint me

"This is a lesson to all people out there to keep the faith. Sometimes even though what you think you might want, might not be what's for you. As my mother always said to me, 'What's for you won't pass you by.' Sometimes we just need to have a little patience. And sometimes that patience can not just be weeks or months but it can be years. I've always thought I'm meant to be in the sport. I have to be in the sport. That's not being egotistical. It's good to have passionate people in this sport. That's what we need. I feel like I can bring that and I'm so grateful now that I can bring it through CITIUS." David McCarthy is CITIUS MAG’s Europe correspondent right now. We’ve had him at On Track Nights in London and Paris. He was at the Paris and Florence Diamond League. He secured interviews with Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his father Gjert, which have taken off on our YouTube channel but you’ll also be able to listen to within this episode. His passion for track a

We're just two years into CITIUS MAG being my full-time job and it's been awesome bringing our readers, listeners, followers and supporters along for the journey since this was just a blog + space to geek out on track and field while on the side of my full-time job at Sports Illustrated. We're proud of the audience and loyal following that we've grown across all channels including this podcast, our Instagram, our YouTube channel, our Twitter, our newsletters and now our website. In this episode, we decide to catch people up on some of the exciting developments that we've had recently in expanding our coverage to Europe, our website and brand redesign, some of our upcoming sponsorships and partnerships with major brands around the U.S. Championships and World Athletics Championships and much more. SUPPORT THE SPONSORS OLIPOP is a prebiotic soda with only 2-5g of sugar that is actually good for your gut health. – and it's delicious. Use code CITIUS25 for 25% off non-subscription orders. 

"A lot of people talk about how they appreciate how supportive I am of them or how they don't understand how I can look at people and I have the utmost support and faith in you because I haven't done anything to deserve that. Well, if there's one thing my dad taught me is that you can't always look at the stats or how people appear to be on the surface. Sometimes you just know if people have it in them even though they haven't shown it yet or they don't know it yet. I'm comfortable and more than willing to show love to everybody because that's one thing that he taught me and I understood how important that was for me as someone who wants to be a professional in the future and wants to change the sport." My guest for this episode is Katelyn Hutchison. You’ve heard her on our show as a recurring analyst and I never got the chance to do a full introduction with her as a guest on the show to share some of her backstory. So we decided that one year with CITIUS MAG would be

On this week’s show, Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber and Mac Fleet do quite a bit of problem-solving and explain recent rule changes by World Athletics including their decision to rename indoor track to ‘short track’ and removing the time qualifiers for the distance races at the World Championships. We also look into the United States’ path to getting a man to qualify for the Olympic marathon. Learn more here... World Athletics Renames Indoor Track To Short Track World Athletics Is Getting Rid Of The Time Qualifier For Distance Races The United States Men’s Marathoners Need Fast Times, Big Performances Soon For Paris Olympics More news over at the new CITIUSMAG.com SUPPORT THE SPONSORS OLIPOP is a prebiotic soda with only 2-5g of sugar that is actually good for your gut health. – and it's delicious. Use code CITIUS25 for 25% off non-subscription orders. Learn more at https://DrinkOlipop.com (click the link or use our promotional code for the discount) GARMIN: Introducing the Forerunner 965 from Gar

"It just felt like the right time. My body hasn’t held up to the training necessary to compete. There’s nothing I can really do about it. I’m so thankful for the career that I had. It’s led me to some of the best connections and relationships in my life. I couldn’t imagine I would’ve got this far when I started. The competitor in me believes there are things I could’ve done that I didn’t but that’s how it goes in this sport. You’re never going to be truly satisfied." After eight years of running professionally, Eric Jenkins has retired. The announcement was made on the latest episode of The CITIUS MAG Podcast. The Portsmouth, New Hampshire native finished his career with personal bests of 3:35.94 for 1500m; 3:53.23 for the mile, 13:05.85 for 5000m and 27:22.06 for 10,000m.  He broke out as a junior at Northeastern when he ran 7:46.21 to finish second in the 3,000m at the NCAA Indoor Championships (the ninth-fastest performance in NCAA history at the time) only to be DQ’ed controversially. He went on

“Women with kids keep getting better. You become strong. It’s the opposite of what some people might think. Because sometimes people would be like, ‘if you go on maternity leave, you might be done.’ It’s becoming the opposite. If you look at Keira (D’Amato) or Aliphine (Tuliamuk), you can bounce back and do better than what you used to. Even in my 20s, I wasn’t feeling the way I feel right now, especially in the road racing.” My guest for this episode is Betsy Saina who has re-emerged as a star in 2023 after giving birth to her son, running 2:21 at the Tokyo Marathon and just won the USATF 25K Championships this past weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan. That marathon performance in Tokyo was It was her first marathon since giving birth to her son and her first marathon since becoming an American citizen. She's certainly someone in the conversation for one of the three spots on the line at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials that will determine the team for the Summer Games in Paris. In our conversation, we'

A lot has happened in the track and field world – mostly off the track. Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber and Mac Fleet round up some of the biggest news and storylines including: – The Kip Keino Classic recap ft. big wins by Sha'Carri Richardson, Ferdinand Omanyala, Mary Moraa and new rising middle-distance stars – Where would you put a new Diamond League meet? – How is Kyle feeling about his prediction that Britton Wilson would one day beat Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone? – Why it's fair for World Athletics to mention Allyson Felix in the same breath as Britton Wilson – Arkansas' Jaydon Hibbert is the triple jump's newest star after breaking the NCAA, U20 record – Who is at fault for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Athing Mu scratching from the LA Grand Prix – Road 10K world record holder Rhonex Kipruto has been provisionally suspended for inconsistencies found in his biological passport Host: Chris Chavez | @Chris_J_Chavez on Instagram Host: Mac Fleet | @macfleet on Instagram Host: Kyle Merber | @kylem

Chris Chavez and Katelyn Hutchison recap their experiences and the standout performances at On Track Nights' Los Angeles stop – Sound Running's Track Fest – and the Atlanta City Games. We dive into what made the meets stand out to us, what other meets could learn from them and how they all fit into the rest of the season. We touch on Sha'Carri Richardson winning the women's 100m at the Doha Diamond League in a world-leading 10.76. She beat Jamaica's Shericka Jackson and Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith. Florence Diamond League organizers announced 100m world champion Fred Kerley and 100m Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs will go head-to-head in the 100m on June 2. World championship bronze medalist Trayvon Bromell is also in the field. (A day later, Rabat Diamond League organizers also announced all three as part of their meet on May 28. The Rabat field also includes Andre De Grasse, Ferdinand Omanyala, Letsile Tebogo, Akani Simbine and Yohan Blake.) Host: Chris Chavez | @Chris_J_Chavez