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Podcast 56: KARA GOUCHER

Posted June 8th, 2007 at 2:00 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts

Episode #56 of The Final Sprint Podcast features my interview with Kara Goucher. Last year the former University of Colorado cross country and track star was finally able to get past the injuries that her plagued her for the past several years and went on to have a stellar 2006 season where she ran the year’s fastest, American women’s 3,000m and the second fastest U.S. women’s 10,000m in history.

Now under the tutelage of legendary American marathoner Alberto
Salazar, Kara is looking strong as she attempts to capitalize on her momentum at the upcoming USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

In the interview, Kara reflects on her 2006 successes, says that she is still focused on breaking 15min in the 5,000m, and discloses that her historic 10,000m time gave her an unexpected interest in possibly racing at the marathon distance (where she could potentially join her husband Adam who is considering running his first marathon at November’s Olympic Trials) but that such a metamorphosis wouldn’t take place until the end of 2008 at the earliest.

She also speaks about starring in Nike’s “Meet the Gouchers” and that although she feels being married to another professional runner is in general a major positive (especially when it comes to support and of course motivation) she also jokes that Adam “Is all over my running business [and training] …at times I am just like ahh, too much!”

Download the podcast to hear Kara discusses these topics, as well as, eating disorders among collegiate athletes, falling in love with her Oregon, and why and how she believes that Coach Salazar has “changed their lives”.

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Host: Adam Jacobs
Guest: Kara Goucher
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Music: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File size: 13.3 MB
Length: 19:29

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Gouchers Go On-Line

Posted May 12th, 2007 at 11:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

Adam and Kara Goucher go on-line with a new feature at nikerunning.com called “Meet the Gouchers.”

“We’ll give consumers an eye opening account of what it’s like to be a married couple who happen to be elite athletes training for the 2008 Olympic Trials,” read the copy from a press release from Nike.

The site offers videos of the Gouchers doing their training drills, but also plenty of snippedts of their daily life (like feeding the cat).

“If we didn’t have each other we would probably have thrown in the towel a long time ago,” Adam says about Kara while sipping coffee in their kitchen.
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