Keeping Track

0-5Obsie talks about having balance with running work and school-how she thrives 5: Obsie talks about her upbringing in Ethiopia, and her other great coaching influences from HS and college in Iowa and Coach Kurt at NeD 9:30 Obsie talks about Ethiopian Running culture 10:40- Running helped Obsie make friends when she came to America, and she didn’t focus on it as an elite sport  11:30-Obsie’s first marathon -in college! She set the NAIA record 2:45 In 2012 at Grandview, where she ran everything from 4x800 to 26.2 in that week 15-How Obsie worked with her competitor to PR in CIM this year Her strategies for managing herself in the race 17:30-edit out the freeze please 18;00-East African running culture 20: Nice is not a weakness:  “When you lift eachother up that’s when I feel the most comfort and benefits you, benefits them. What’s meant for me will be mine...there’s enough room for everyone...I know its a competition but I know when to turn that on and when to turn that off” 21-Obsie surrounds herself with real and good people-she is grateful for the mentors in her life: Janet Bawcom, Dianne Nukuri, her HS coach, her post college coach Kurt, and her teachers in Ethiopia On coaching middle school kids in her NeD days; “coaching those kids, I find it inspiring, I think as an adult you lose that part of you sometimes that gets so excited about the sport and ...as adults we are so fearful that x-y-z will happen. Those kids I lay out hurdles in front of them and some of those kids have never seen it and they’re like “im gonna do it!....they have no fear”  25- Obsie is grateful for her coaches’ efforts and it inspires her in the race 26-Obsie’s workouts! -we thought she did 5X5 mile, but i think it is 5X mile :) She loves mileage! 30-Obsie learns to fit in training, rest, sleep and diet better now than she used to 32-Ethiopian culture and attitude on food and diet 36-Obsie is not sponsored and mostly trains solo 39-what’s next? Trials are on the calendar! “Running for me is the way I feel the most confident,it’s when I feel like I’m open to people, so it’s like a language. It’s like a smile is a universal language and running is the same because whether you run slow,.....people run at different levels but we’re all in it together. All those marathoners still out there on the course, were all on the same journey. I love that.  “It’s really opened up my world and my mind and what I can do with other things. It motivates me to be better:to be a better advisor, a better student.” Link to Obsie’s Saucony commercial Link to NeDistance