Socialing The Distance featuring Emily Oren

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Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder

Featuring Emily Oren

Emily Oren, photo by On running communications

Emily Oren shows the value of supportive coaching. In high school, Emily was not an early adapter to running. But, with good coaching and positive support, Emily saw success and got the bug. At Hillsdale college, Emily had excellent coaching, and developed into the finest athlete in her colleges’ history, leading the team to the college Women’s Track and Field program 2016 Program of the Year. That year, Emily was also the Honda‘s Collegiate Sports Award Women’s Recipient. This is the biggest award in women’s collegiate sports.

Emily Oren (center), photo by On running communications

Emily has good PBs, with a 5000m at 15:37.47 (2 May 2019), steeplechase PB at 9:40.65 (10 June 2017) and a new 1,500m PB at 4:14.77 (15 August 2020)!

Emily Oren, photo by On running communications

Emily Oren was a refreshing interview. Her positive attitude, her love of the sport, her enthusiasm with the OAC and being coached by Dathan Ritzenhein all showed up in this interview. My take? Emily Oren will be in the battle to make an Olympic team in 2021.

Thanks Emily. Your enthusiasm, and comments made this an easy interview. Thanks to Mike Deering/ The Shoe Addicts on producing #Socialingthedistance.

To see our conversation with Dathan Ritzenhein, coach at the OAC, please go to: https://www.runblogrun.com/2020/08/socialing-the-distance-eaturing-dathan-ritzenhein-head-coach-on-athletics-club.html

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Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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