FIGHT NO MATTER WHAT
WITH ZOUHAIR TALBI
PHOTO BY: Cortney White
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On this week’s episode we spoke with world-class track star Zouhair Talbi about his journey with running. His advice? “Fight no matter what.” It’s not easy during lonely runs or balancing training with other important life goals. Tune in to hear from Moroccos fastest 10000m runner, Zouhair Talbi.
Stick around after that great conversation for the latest in the World of Running including another Diamond League, America’s most promising alternate in history for the World Championships Marathob, and the Gold Coast Marathon.
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MAIN TOPIC: FIGHT NO MATTER WHAT
Main Topic: Fight No Matter What
This week on the A to Z Running Podcast we hear from world-class runner Zouhair Talbi who goes to school in the US and competes for Morocco. His journey grinding through lonely Kansas workouts and pushing through tough workouts, Zouhair shares his story of resilience and tells us to “fight no matter what.”
About our Guest: Zouhair Talbi
Oklahoma City, 7 time NAIA National Champion, Indoor 3000m and 5000m record holder
While Zouhair is a track distance specialist, he is also a sub 4 miler AND a 1:02 half marathoner.
6th place at the World Indoor Championships this year in the 3000m representing his country Morocco.
He ran a new PR this spring in the 5000m outdoors of 13:24.21 at Hayward field where he will return for the World Championships very soon.
Zouhair is qualified by the World Standard in the 10,000m with a time of 27:20.61. (In the race that he ran this time he beat both Emmanuel Bor and US Champion, Joe Klecker)
Follow Zouhair: @zouhairathle
WORLD OF RUNNING
World of Running
5k Madeleine and Mike, Bill 3rd in his 5k and 1st AG, Jacob 5k
#1. Diamond League – Stockholm
(Source – Diamond League; Watch the full meet in BBC coverage here)
- Men’s 800m
- A chance to see where the returning Olympic gold and silver medalists are at… Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich
- Not great, and others have a lot more momentum like Britain’s youngster Max Burgin or USA’s Bryce Hoppel
- Men’s 3,000m
- Sudanese refugee Domnic Lobalu took the race by storm in 7:29, both an incredible PR and the fastest time run by any in the refugee team program (as well as what would be a 20-second Sudanese national record)
- Outkicked Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo who has spent almost no time on the track yet this year (remember that he set the half marathon world record last November, a few months after an Olympic bronze medal in the 10,000m)
- Great to see Australia’s Stewart McSweyn looking good again finally (he had the dreaded heart condition sometimes caused by the COVID vaccines and spent a fair bit of time wondering if he would ever get it back).
- Just a handful of seconds off his PR for 4th place, and looked strong running aggressive
- Back in 6th, Luis Gijalva set a new Guatemalan national record in 7:38
- Women’s 800m
- Kenya’s rising star Mary Moraa upset Great Britain’s Olympic silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson
- One of 5 runners this year to have run under 1:58, and her second time doing so this season
- Women’s 3,000m steeple
- Kazakhstan’s Daisy Jepkemei (previously of Kenya) won comfortably
- In second, Alice Finot set a new French national record in 9:19
- In fourth, Natalia Strebkova set a new Ukrainian national record in 9:24
#2. The best alternate ever
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- Keira D’Amato will represent team USA at the World Championships in place of bronze medalist Molly Seidel.
- A statement from Seidel said she has a stress reaction in her sacrum and her application to use Adderall in competition is “ongoing.”
- Emma Bates and Sara Hall are the other two American women in the World Championships marathon. Galen Rupp, Elkanah Kibet, and Colin Mickow are the men.
- Tells RunnersWorld, “Everything I have been working for my whole life is to make the U.S. team, to be able to wear red, white, and blue and a Team USA jersey. …I would regret it for the rest of my life, not saying “yes” to an opportunity like this. Are you kidding me?”
#3. Lindsay Flanagan ran 2:24:45
- Overall female win and the course record for Lindsay. Previous record was 2:24:49
- First American to every with the Gold Coast Marathon in Queensland
- Listen to our recent episode with Lindsay
Bonus: Jessica Hull ran an Australian record on July 2nd of 4:19 at the The UAC Mile. Previous record was 4:21.38 now holds 7 national records for Australia. Sinclair Johnson paced the race for teammate Jessica Hull.
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