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Two-time Olympian and renowned runner, Kim Conley, joins Laura on the podcast this week to share her incredible story of defying all odds to reach the pinnacle of her sport. From facing disappointments in college to becoming an Olympian with her first endorsement deal within just three years, Kim's tale is a testament to the power of perseverance and self-belief. In addition to her prowess on the track, she also operates a successful coaching company which caters to runners of all abilities across the nation. Today, this very special guest details the many powerful lessons she has learned during her unforgettable journey of passion, triumph, and dedication. Throughout this fascinating conversation, Kim recounts her road to the Olympics, her transition to marathon running, the challenges she faced during her athletic career, and how she balanced her personal life with her professional ambitions. She highlights the significance of teamwork in running, where even middle-of-the-pack athletes play crucial roles in team scores, and notes that her love for running and the joy she finds in the sport have been the driving forces behind her success and continued dedication to the marathon. The life-changing grant that allowed her to devote herself wholly to training for the Olympic Trials, and the sheer determination and courage she demonstrated in securing her place in the Olympics by a razor-thin margin are also discussed. Kim goes on to introduce her coaching business, "Next Best Run," and her plans for the future, including her quest for the 2024 Paris Olympics. As you will hear, Kim Conley's story, as shared here today, is a truly remarkable one of grit, passion, and seizing the moment that will undoubtedly leave you inspired to pursue your own dreams, no matter what obstacles you may encounter in your path. Episode Highlights: Overcoming disappointments. The value of teamwork Setting ambitious goals Finding joy in running Pursuing excellence Striving for support and independence Kim's make-or-break moment Tactical Olympic trials Quotes: "Sometimes we just need to give ourselves the opportunity to do great things. All of our paths to get there may look different, but every effort we make matters." "I was really focused on really helping the coaches with the recruiting process and trying to build up the team so that we could be the type of team that would qualify for Nationals." "I felt like, ‘Wow, in three years, if I keep making progress, could I get to the Olympic Trials? Would that make me feel accomplished and make up for this huge, heartbreaking disappointment with college?'" "I just need to stop fixating on the outcome and just try to run as hard as I possibly can to see where that lands me." "A lot of it is about where running is fitting into a person's life and how they're feeling. And so I like to have a lot of communication and interaction with the people that I work with." "With the support of coaches, with the support of my family, I kind of set that goal of ‘I want to be at the Olympic Trials in three years.' And so that's how I decided to keep pursuing it after college." "I want to be a runner for my entire life.” Links: The Pursuit of Gold Website Learn more about the Take Action Workshop Laura's Social Media: Laura's Instagram Laura's Facebook Connect with Kim: Kim's Website Kim's Instagram

Two-time Olympian Kim Conley talks the transition to road racing and the marathon, the toughness and consistency that she displays when running and how she uses that mentality when coaching, her new coaching business, Next Best Run, her love for basketball, spaghetti bolognese, the food she'd live without forever that made Dom sad and more! For more on Kim's coaching business, check out https://nextbestrun.com Click here for Lactic Acid's social media pages and more: https://linktr.ee/lacticacidpodcast Lactic Acid is partnered with TrackBarn! Be sure to visit the website at https://trackbarn.com and use the code LACTICACID10 at the checkout for 10% off of your order. Follow along on RunnersWorld: https://www.runnersworld.com/author/2... Follow along on FanHub: https://fanhubtf.com Be sure to follow Lactic Acid on the following platforms: YouTube: Lactic Acid Podcast with Dominique Smith Twitter: Lacticacid_pod Instagram: Lacticacidpodcast TikTok: Lacticacid_podcast For any current or aspiring runners looking for elite coaching, USATF certified coach Larry Lopez is your guy. Contact larry@truepotentialrunning.com for more information. Subscribe to one of the best newsletters in the track and field world, Fast Women: https://fast-women.org/subscribe/ For those who are interested in playing Taylor Swift jeopardy: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/2022-12…

Making a third Olympic team isn't easy. Add in a pandemic and a yearlong Olympic delay and it creates challenges for Olympians like Kim Conley. Conley represented Team USA in distance running at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The UC Davis grad and New Balance-sponsored athlete was on track to qualify for her third Olympic team in the 5000m when COVID-19 struck. Runners were fortunate when the lockdown started since running wasn't canceled and doesn't require a practice facility in proximity to other people for training. But distance running in your 30s isn't always easy. Recovery takes long. Injuries can happen at any time. But Kim was feeling healthy and made the decision to double down on her commitment to making that third Olympic team. That led to a major life decision to leave Northern California and relocate to Flagstaff, Arizona. And she's reaped both physical and mental benefits ever since. On this Dying to Ask: How Kim made the call to leave her support system in Northern California and move to Flagstaff, Arizona How athletes avoided COVID-19 this past year What Kim feared might happen to her career if she tested positive for coronavirus And how to fine-tune your own grit when your life plan goes sideways

Welcome to episode 166 of the Final Surge Podcast. Today we welcome back Olympian Kim Conley to the show. We catch up with Kim and talk about how she is handling this long period between race and what advice she has for staying motivated. :45 Where are you with your training? 1:09 When is the last time you raced? 1:29 When is the last time you went this long without a race? 2:30 Do you have anything on the books as a potential? 3:36 Have you decided between the 5k and 10k? 4:20 Back in March when this all broke could you imagine we would be where we are? 5:23 What have you been doing with training since March? 6:19 What are you doing on the track? 7:39 What about the mental side of this? 8:59 What type of encouragement do you have for these high school and college kids losing seasons? 10:05 Have you been doing anything different to take your mind off things? 11:24 Do you feel like you're in really good shape right now? 12:15 Anything different in the training you have been doing? 13:15 If you come out and pop a big-time do you think things will change going forward with training? 14:30 Have you had a training partner? 14:55 You dabbled with the marathon briefly, after the Olympic Trials do you still plan on testing the marathon again in the future? 16:50 With the big base do you feel you could jump in a marathon right now? 17:37 Walk us through a week 18:47 For the average runner who doesn't have a race on the calendar how do you motivate them to keep going? Resources Kim on Instagram Kim On Twitter KimConley.com

Episode 124: We welcome back Olympian Kim Conley to the Final Surge Podcast. Kim has had a rough time with injuries since she last joined us before her marathon debut. She is back on the track now and we discuss what her plans are for the 2020 Olympic year. :40 Last time we had you on we were talking about you doing your first marathon. With the Olympics in 2020 just a year away, what are your plans? 1:55 What type of injuries did you go through? 2:20 How long will you be at altitude training? 2:32 What are you going to be focussing on in the immediate future? 3:09 In 2016 you went after both the 10k and the 5k, will that be the plan again? 4:04 You recently raced at Payton Jordan and I want to read an Instagram post you did right after the race.   “ I spent some time pulling the field along last night in the 5000m, but my indecisiveness to push the pace from the front also reminded me that I have additional elements to address as I rediscover my racing identity." What do you mean by this? 5:54 Do you think the reason was gameplan or because of the time you missed that you didn't finish like you wanted? 6:35 Are you making progress towards getting your competitive edge back? 7:17 How often are you getting up to altitude for training? 7:35 A lot of everyday runners go through injury issues too, what advice do you have to them for coming back from an injury? 8:55 How long did it feel like it took for your fitness to come back? 9:53 How hard is it mentally to come back and know you are not where you used to be? 10:52 Do you have a group you are training with? 11:17 What do you think of the new Olympic standards in place? 12:12 Has it changed your training at all? 13:00 What would you like to see as a selection process for the US? 14:25 How is your training changed coming back from injury? 15:06 What different rehab/prehab exercises are you doing? 15:25 Tell us about the new book about you called The Underdog 16:27 How involved in the process have you been?   Resources Episode 28 with Kim Conley from 2016 Kim on Twitter Kim on Instagram Kim Website

Kim Conley is just plain scrappy. While every runner has a unique story, Kim's journey to the world of professional running does not resemble the path of many of her fellow competitors. Growing up in Santa Rosa, California Kim's track career began in 1998 when she joined the Santa Rosa Express Track Club. She went on to compete at UC Davis, but despite steady improvement over her years as an Aggie, she graduated in 2009 with only one national-level collegiate appearance to her name. Determined to improve, Kim emerged definitively on the professional running scene at the 2012 Olympic Trials in Eugene, OR. In one of the most dramatic races of the meet, Kim mounted a comeback effort over the final lap, culminating in a sprint down the home stretch to move from 5th place to a 3rd place. Kim's podium finish, combined with a race result that fell .21 seconds inside the Olympic A standard, solidified a qualifying spot on the US Olympic team. Kim's story is for any athlete who never thought they were talented enough. She is proof positive that hard work pays off! About the Host: John Register, CSP, Gulf War Army Veteran, Paralympic Silver Medalist, and professional keynote speaker who shares life lessons increases business leader's ability to connect more authentically with their teams. View John's speaking trailer by clicking here.

“Not to sound cheesy, but anything is possible. I think that when you set your mind to something, and make a plan on how to get there, then you just chip away at what the next step of the plan is and you keep working up to the next step on the staircase basically—and it's amazing how far you can go.” Really enjoyed sitting down with two-time U.S. Olympian Kim Conley this past weekend after she finished fourth at the NYRR Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5K, a race which doubled as the U.S. 5K road championships for 2018. The 32-year-old Conley, who has been battling a series of injuries since early 2017, is finally healthy again and setting her sights on returning to the track in 2019. Based in Sacramento, where she lives and trains with her husband and coach, Drew Wartenburg, Conley ran collegiately at nearby U.C. Davis, where she graduated in 2009 with modest personal bests of 16:17 for 5000m and 4:22 in the 1500. Despite not being fast enough to land a sponsorship deal after college, Conley knew that she still had some unfinished business in the sport, so she decided to stick with it. It's a decision that has certainly paid off: Conley has made the last two Olympic teams in the 5000m, captured national titles in the 10,000m and half marathon, and improved her personal bests to 15:08 and 4:07, respectively. We covered a wide range of topics in this conversation, including: what Conley has taken away from her most recent injury experience; her marathon debut in 2016 and what she learned from that race (and why she's going to stay focused on the track through 2020); the state—and strength—of American women's distance running right now; her own progression in the sport, from good but not great high school and college runner to two-time Olympian and national champion; her new upcoming biography, Underdog, which comes out next spring; the shutting down of NorCal Distance, her current training situation in Sacramento, and what's it like to be coached by her husband, Drew Wartenburg; what other runners can take away from her story; and much, much more. Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford at BaresRecords.com Complete show notes: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-35-with-kim-conley/ ‎ Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/ Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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Welcome to episode 28 of the Final Surge podcast where today we talk to Olympian Kim Conley who made her marathon debut this past fall. We talk about her epic Olympic Trial 5k race in 2012, her incident she had in the 10k trials this year and we discuss her making the jump to a marathon this fall. Two weeks ago we had a conversation with Olympian Nick Willis and we are giving away two free boot camps to his Miler Method. The two winning entries from iTunes are MilebyMile and DAllen. Email me Dean@Finalsurge.com or hit us up on Twitter @finalsurge and we will get you hooked up.  Kim we always like to start out getting to know a little bit about our guests, can you tell our listeners how you got started in running? So you started early in 6th grade, when was the point that you realized you were pretty good at this running thing and may have a future in it? At what point did you start looking at colleges and what lead you to to UC Davis? When you were running in school what were your plans, was running something to help get you through school or did you have aspirations of running post-collegiately. Probably my favorite race of yours was the 2012 Olympic Trials. For those who don’t know the story let me set it for you. You did not have an A standard going into the trials. And you needed the A to get to the Olympics. Julia Lucas had pushed the pace and you kept it so the A standard was within Reach. Coming into the last lap it was still in question if you would be top 3 and if you would get the A standard. Can you walk us through the last lap of that race? At this year’s Trials, you were one of the favorites to make the team in both the 10k and the 5k. You did make the team in the 5k, but in the 10k it was not the results you wanted when you lost a shoe in the race. Can you tell us what happened there and what went through your mind when you were deciding to continue or not? If you had made it what would you have done, both or which? You mentioned the US distance women are really deep, we can see that with the difference between 12 and this year with the A standards. What do you think are the big differences right now in women’s distance? Do you think women are training differently or do you think it is more of the groups pushing each other? You had a couple of 15:10’s this year before the Olympics, were you happy with the race at the Olympics or is there anything you would have changed? Do you think the struggle was something you did leading up to the race or just bad races happen? You made your marathon debut in New York this last fall, and you were coming off the Olympics where you had been training for the 5k. So how did the training have to change in the short time between Rio and NY? Did you know you would be doing NY before Rio? What type of difference were there in volume you did for your 5k work vs. your marathon training? What were your goals going into the race, how did you think it was going to go? So you have a marathon under your belt now. What do you think, you have a lot more marathons in your future? So when will the next marathon be fall 2017 or likely 18? What did you do well, that you would do again and what would you change in training? How about the race itself, What if anything would you have done differently? What did you do about fueling during the race? What was your diet like leading up to the race? For an adult age group runner who maybe has run a lot of 5 and 10k’s, what advice would you have for them on making their marathon debut? 2017 is here, we are one week into the new year. What are your goals for this year? What does a typical week this time of year look like for you? Rapid Fire... 5 questions in under 1 minute Favorite running book? - Wishing on My Fathers Star Current trainers you are wearing? - New Balance Fresh Foam Vongo Favorite race? - 5k on the road Favorite recovery meal or recovery drink? - Hamburger Your favorite piece of running equipment that is not your shoes? - Final Surge log Kim on TwitterKim's Website