2018 USATF XC Championships

On The Run: US Cross Country Champion Emily Infeld | Ep. 74

On The Run: US Cross Country Champion Emily Infeld | Ep. 74

US Cross Country champion and World Championship bronze medalist Emily Infeld joins Jojo and Kevin on this week's edition of On The Run.

Feb 15, 2018
On The Run: US Cross Country Champion Emily Infeld | Ep. 74

Newly crowned US Cross Country champion Emily Infeld joins Jojo and Kevin to discuss her first US title, her ambitious goals for the 5000m and 10,000m this season, trying to look cool when she first met Shalane Flanagan and training with triathlon star Gwen Jorgensen. 

Emily also shares her favorite foods to eat (hint: she loves rotisserie chicken as much as Jojo), how her father’s suggestion to attend culinary school inspired her to make the Olympic team and the meanest thing she’s done on the track. Also, Emily gives her insight on her Bowerman Track Club teammates who are in action this weekend at the US Indoor Championships.  


Highlights:

1:00 - What is a typical training day like for Emily? 

6:30 - Emily explains her ambitious time goals for the 5000m and 10,000m this year 

11:00 - What is it like to train with Olympic triathlon champion, Gwen Jorgensen?

17:40 - Emily’s memories of her first workout with Shalane Flanagan.

28:30 - Emily’s viewpoint on running professionally when she left college.

31:00 - How Emily’s dad motivated her to make her first Olympic team.

33:00 - What’s the meanest thing Emily has done on the track?

35:00 - Emily’s outlook on the US Indoor Championships

43:30 - Kevin and Jojo talk about this weekend’s US Indoor Championships