Race Report: Molly Huddle + 2023 New York City Half Marathon Race Report: Lauren Hagans + 2023 USATF Half Marathon National Championships Race Report: Emma Grace Hurley + 2023 USATF 15k National Championships Race Report: Amber Zimmerman + 2023 USATF 10-Mile National Championship Race Report: Alexina Teubel + 2023 USATF One-Mile National Championships See the links below to catch up with earlier race reports. Emma Grace Hurley, who we featured in our episode focusing on the 15k championship, is in third. Nell is current in second place in the series, just one point behind Jessa Hanson.

Racers also earn points based on their placing that go toward the race series competition. Each race is an opportunity to earn a national title and some excellent prize money. Within Nell's thoughtful insights and extensive experience as an elite athlete are valuable takeaways that you can take into your own life adventures, wherever you may be along your journey.įor 2023, we are doing Race Reports for each of the USATF Road Circuit races, which are the series of national championship events that take place for various distances all throughout the country throughout the year. One fact that is clear in Nell's journey is that being a professional runner is as much about training and racing as it is about managing the stresses of daily life. Along the way we get insight into what it looks like to be a professional marathon runner, how focusing on being the very best at one very long distance plays out over the long haul. It also has to do with where a race like this fits into Nell's larger goals. The story behind that stretches back to Nell's build up to Boston 2023, and this episode gets into all of it. The 25k race, as it would turn out, was not the day that Nell had hoped it could be.

But of course, there's so much more to the story than just one race. In this episode she shares how it all went down at the 2023 USATF 25k National Championships, which took place just one month after the 2023 Boston Marathon. having placed top American at both the 20 Boston Marathon. Nell Rojas is one of the best marathon racers in the U.S.

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