. Her marathon progression is exciting and impressive. She’s only 26 years old and has been putting more serious training into the marathon since 2018.  She casually ran some marathons in the speedy times of 2:49-3:01 before she decided to really see what she could do. Last fall in Frankfurt she ran a 2:37 and just a year later took that down to 2:33 from this past weekend!

Introduction to Naomi Mitchell and a bit of history of her running career

A timeline of her marathon progression and how she had such big improvements in the marathon the last few years

Her goals at the Frankfurt Marathon in 2019

What she has her sights set on with running in the coming years

Her early years of running and the club that she ran for growing up

Her change in mileage and training progressions when she started having big improvements

What she does for work

How she balances her time between training and working full time

Being vegan while training for marathons

The process of getting into the London Marathon

Details of the London Marathon course and training for the unique aspect of the course being a lot of laps

Details on being in the London Marathon “bubble” and safety precautions they took for COVID

The weather at the race

A breakdown of her race

Her mentality when the race got hard

The support that she gets from her husband with her training

Her fueling strategy during a marathon

What her sights are set on next and if she will be running a spring marathon

End of podcast questions

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