Jess McClain: The Official U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Alternate

From MaiTai's to Marathons; 4th Place finisher at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon, Jess McClain sits down in an interview days before her outstanding performance. Jess, a 7-time All-American for Stanford entered the trials with no sponsor, no team, but a career's worth of confidence. The former Brooks Beast ran 2:25:46 for the 26.2 distance, taking 4 minutes off of her previous record. Watch and listen as McClain details her career, her trials build up, and her life post-sponsor and how she is more locked in than ever. Watch the visual component of this episode on YouTube/longrunlactic.

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