I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast · SandyBoy Productions

Episode 654: Sophie King; 2:34 Marathoner On Racing Through Setbacks, Big Dreams, and Finding Her Spark Again

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After tearing her plantar fascia, Sophie King let herself grieve for two days before reframing the injury.

1. I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast centers on Sophie King, a Richmond runner, and the idea of what the tough miles teach. 2. Lindsey Hein hosts, Trevor Spencer of Marathon Training Academy co-hosts, and Sophie King speaks as the local pro runner whose Richmond debut changed her trajectory. 3. The episode asks what runners do when pain, injury, or doubt arrives and whether those moments can become useful. 4. Sophie says she grew up around the Tri-City Road Runners in the Petersburg-Colonial Heights area and started in swimming because she wanted to be different. 5. She says her father got sick in 2019, became a stroke victim, and kept talking about running another marathon again. 6. That experience pushed her to move back in with her mother and father during COVID and start training seriously in Richmond. 7. Sophie says her first Richmond Marathon in 2021 felt like a one-and-done goal, but the training helped her find who she was. 8. She explains that after that race someone told her she was four minutes off the Olympic trials standard, which she had to look up. 9. Trevor notes that CIM became a place to chase the standard, and Sophie says her goal there was to run the best she possibly could. 10. She says her coach at the time wanted the Olympic trials standard, while she focused on running as fast as she could. 11. Sophie says naivete helped because she had no baseline for speed and was not chasing a label at the start. 12. She says her quadruplet family made competition normal because her biggest teammates were also her biggest competition. 13. Sophie describes the marathon as a place where discomfort becomes an opportunity to grow, both in sport and at work. 14. She says at CIM the tough part did not arrive until about 24 miles because she negative split the race. 15. Sophie says tearing her plantar fascia in November 2023 forced surgery in January and withdrawal from the Olympic trials in February 2024. 16. She says she grieved for two days, then focused on turning the injury into the best thing that ever happened to her. 17. The conversation stays upbeat and reflective, with Lindsay, Trevor, and Sophie moving back and forth between race stories and life lessons. 18. The live format includes audience questions about giving up, current goals, Kira D'Amato, and whether marathoning can feel like a team effort. 19. Runners, coaches, and anyone working through setbacks. 20. Listeners looking for celebrity gossip or a tightly scripted race recap.

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