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 status of the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. As of this conversation, on December 17, 92 athletes have hit the women's qualifying standard of 2:37:00 and 77 have hit the men's standard of 2:16:00. There's also discussion of making it easier to find where to watch various track & field events, and you can see USATF's 2026 broadcast schedule here: https://www.usatf.org/events/event-resource-pages/television-webcast-schedule And USATF's events calendar is here: https://www.usatf.org/events Amy mentions in passing that she competed in 10 events at the 2017 USATF Masters Outdoor Championships to help the Atlanta Track Club win the national title. We had to look those results up, because it's not every day that a 10,000m Olympian competes in the shot put, long jump, discus, and 4x100m relay. https://mastershistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017outdoors.pdf 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 newsletter: https://fastwomen.substack.com/
