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Hot off winning their seventh-consecutive U.S. 1500m title between indoors and outdoors, Nikki Hiltz talks to Sarah Lorge Butler before heading to Poland to compete at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Nikki Hiltz on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkihiltz/ Sarah Lorge Butler on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slorgebutler.bsky.social Fast Women on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fastwomen/ Fast Women on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fastwomen.bsky.social Subscribe ...

Professional runner Emma Grace Hurley talks to Sarah Lorge Butler three days after she, Jess McClain, Ednah Kurgat, and Carrie Ellwood were led off course by at the USATF Half Marathon Championships in Atlanta. McClain was leading the race when they were led off course, and Hurley and Kurgat were running in second and third. By the time they rejoined the race, they were well back in the field. Two days after the race, the Atlanta Track Club published a timeline of events that they belie...

Sarah Lorge Butler talks to Nike marathoner and physician assistant Gabi Rooker, a Minneapolis-based 2:24 marathoner who is preparing for the 2026 Boston Marathon. They discuss living and running in Minneapolis amid ICE's invasion of the city, and how that has affected the community and her patients. And Gabi discusses her December surgery to remove a grapefruit-sized uterine fibroid and her longer-than-expected recovery. Gabi talks about her ongoing fertility journey, and how that intersects...

Sarah Lorge Butler talks to LetsRun's Jonathan Gault about his background, track & field media, mixed zone etiquette, LetsRun's often toxic message boards, and his recent reporting on Citius Mag. Jonathan Gault on X: https://x.com/jgault13 Sarah Lorge Butler on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slorgebutler.bsky.social Fast Women on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fastwomen/ Fast Women on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fastwomen.bsky.social Subscribe to the Fast Women new...

This one's for the real running/T&F nerds! Amy Begley, USA Track & Field's general manager of high performance, and Rob Mullett, USATF's director of long distance running programs, talk to Sarah Lorge Butler about some of the initiatives they're currently working on. Amy discusses the recently-announced USATF Tour and Rob discusses the fact that USATF is now scheduling and announcing its championships much farther in advance than it has in the past. And they also talk about the ...