"Good things will come" - Healing, distance and the road to Chicago Marathon with Maggie Montoya - The Big Run - Episode 106

Today's guest is Maggie Montoya  Montoya ran Division I track while attending Baylor University leading the college to the NCAA Championships in her final season placing second and earning the All-Region honours at NCAA South Central Regional in a season-best 6,000-meter time of 20:21:7. Following college, Montoya moved to Boulder, CO to join the Roots Running Project, training with fellow Salomon athlete Noah Droddy. Within five years of training with the group, she has hit several personal records, including a 32:06:87 10K that earned her a spot in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials and a recent 15:19 5K at the MT SAC Relays in April 2022. Montoya has her sights set on the Chicago Marathon in 7 weeks' time.  Maggie has been on a profound journey of healing after surviving a mass shooting at her place of work on March 22nd 2021 where tragically ten people lost their lives. She has been sharing her experience of what happened in order in order to help shift the narrative about how people feel about gun laws.  In this conversation, we talk about that period in her life, her journey into running and her recent signing with Salomon.