Track Club Babe Kim Clark Is Running for Good

Kim Clark’s 110,000 Instagram followers know her as Track Club
Babe. Kim microblogs daily offering inspiration, encouragement,
and rock-solid training advice learned over years of running. Fun
note: The Run to the Top was the very first running podcast she
listened to!


Kim ran her first marathon in high school. It was a six-hour
disaster but she survived. Years later, in her late 20s, Kim
decided to train seriously for another marathon and record her
journey. Today she has a 3:11 PR and a massive following of
runners.


Kim is a former human rights lawyer turned commercial real estate
agent in her hometown of San Diego, CA, who creates her social
content each evening. She’s done a ton of research throughout her
running career and has of course had her ups and downs and is
happy to teach and share her positivity with her online
community.


In this episode, Kim shares her story along with some great
running knowledge including what she eats to fuel and recover,
training mistakes she’s made, over-training, and her thoughts on
weight loss as it pertains to runners. Enjoy listening to running
influencer @trackclubbabe!


 


Questions Kim is asked: 


 


3:42 When I invited you to be on the show, you said the sweetest
thing about how this was a full circle moment for you.  Can
you explain?


 


4:49 You chopped almost three hours off your marathon time. Tell
us about your journey.


 


7:59 What made you want to start a blog and give yourself the
nickname Track Club Babe?


 


 9:45 What were some of your early training mistakes?


 


12:57 What do you eat now before running? 


 


14:08 You have a really big following on Instagram and you give
training advice and things that work for you that people just
absolutely eat up. What do you get asked about the most?


 


15:34 Your running journey hasn’t exactly been perfectly smooth
so I would love to hear about some of the times you’ve had
plateaus and you broke through them.


 


20:14 Results are addictive when you get big PRs. You just think,
“Well, if I just do a little bit more… “ But clearly there’s a
breaking point.


 


26:26 One post of yours I noticed recently was about weight loss
to get faster.  Can we talk about this?


 


30:37 I think it’s super helpful to spread that message that
thinner is not faster so I’m really glad we’re talking about
that.


 


32:57 Let’s talk about food. What’s your favorite recovery food?
What do you like to fuel up on when you’re in marathon training?


 


33:53 With your Instagram following being so big and working on
your blog, are you still working as a full-time realtor as well?


 


35:25 What’s it like during COVID with no races for you?


 


37:01 How did you get through all the mental baggage of taking
time off from running?


 


39:11 What’s next for you?






Questions I ask everyone:


 


42:36 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you started
running, what advice would you give?


 


43:20 What is the greatest gift running has given you?


 


43:55 Where can listeners connect with you?


 
Quotes by Kim:

 


“We all love to run and no matter why you’re running, whether
it’s just for the joy of it or competitively, it makes it more
fun when it feels a little bit more effortless and you can go a
little bit longer and a little bit faster, and it just makes it
more fun.”


 


“I think the internet’s an awesome place for just teaching you so
much, and then just being connected with so many runners around
the world helps so much to read from their experiences, learn
from them.”


 


“I figured out how to qualify for Boston and I figured out
training for me. The key for every person is just figuring out
what is going to connect for you and your body and for where
you’re at.”


 


“There’s so many things that you can be doing that have nothing
to do with weight that are going to move the needle on your
speed, and that’s what we should be focusing on and not just
being so obsessed with weight, which honestly, if you want to try
to be frail and run fast; that’s not going to work either. You
want to be under-fueled and try to run fast; that’s not going to
help you.”






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Runners Connect Winner's Circle Facebook Community 


RunnersConnect Facebook page


RunnersConnect Focus Classes


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