Description

This week’s episode is with YiOu Wang from Marin. YiOu is a professional runner for Under Armour, a teacher, and a world traveler. She won The North Face Challenge 50 miler in 2019 and qualified for the US Olympic Marathon Trials in 2012 and 2020.

In this episode we discuss how spectating the Boston Marathon in college sparked her interest in running, qualifying for the Olympic trials in the marathon, Some highlights from our conversation:

• How she discovered her love for running later in life, coming to the sport without a strong sports background as a kid
  
  
• Her early days of marathon training based on books and trial and error
  
  
• Moving from Boston to her husband’s hometown of Marin, and falling in love with the trails in California
  
  
• What she learned from traveling around the world while working as a private tutor
  
  
• How she trains through uncertainty
  
  
• How she adopted her trail training to OTQ in the marathon in only a few weeks
  
  
• Adjusting her mindset and training after all the races she had planned to run this year were cancelled
  
  

Follow YiOu on Instagram @ywangruns, on Twitter @Magicsquid, and follow her training on Strava.

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