The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

Chris Chavez and Kyle Merber break down all of the sprints races taking place at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest from Aug. 19-27. Here’s the full broadcast schedule and how to watch. | A full schedule of events in Eastern Time can be found here . Here are the biggest questions around each respective event: Women’s 100m: The best event of the world championships? Men’s 100m: How...

"Now, I can focus on coaching and connecting with individuals to see what their needs are as an athlete. The time that I will have to be able to do that will make a huge impact on the athletes and the Atlanta Track Club because I’ll have more to give that way…There will be a lot of time for me to also be involved with Atlanta Track Club’s outreach in the community. I’m looking forward to bein...

“I think the only time I thought about that American record was that last 100m because I was like, ‘You have to beat Elise no matter what. If you guys are going fast enough and you’re not in front of her, she’s going to get it.’ I think I barely outleaned her and ended up getting sixth. The results took forever to load and come up on the screen but when they did it was such a party because everyon...

“This journey is all about the legacy I want to leave behind to motivate the young generation. It’s not all about getting the world record and we are done. I still need more to motivate the young generation to know that ‘Faith was there and she did this. She was the Olympic champion and world champion. Now she’s a record holder.’ I still need to show girls the way and all women.” My guest for this...

"Being injured it's so easy to think, 'This is it! This is all she wrote! That was a good run, Keira.' You can't help but let your mind go there. It was the fact that I was able to have another high and I never thought I'd get to experience anything like I experienced in Houston with that day. It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime thing that I got to experience. Part of me sai...

"Last year, I can’t even begin to tell you where my head was at. I was dealing with a lot. My dad had passed away. My girlfriend had just broken up with me. We found out that we were making this move to Eugene...Finally, this year – I’m in a new situation. The training is going super well. I feel my engine is stronger than ever. This is a good time. What do I think I can do? I think the piped...

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the fourth day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: – Rai Benjamin missed eight weeks of training in May and June and stormed back to a 46.62s win in the 400m hurdles – Shamier Little is back on top with the women's 400m hurdles title for the first time s...

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the third day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: – – Nikki Hiltz and Yared Nuguse winning the 1500m – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ran the second-fastest 400m in U.S. history in the 400m race with a time of 48.74 seconds. – Sha'Carri Richardson ran an impr...

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison and Dana Giordano recap the second day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. Some of the highlights of the day include: Sha'Carri Richardson won her first U.S. 100m title in 10.82 seconds, ahead of Brittany Brown (10.90) and Tamari Davis (10.99) who also qualified for the U.S. 100m team for the first time. In the men'...

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, Katelyn Hutchison, Jasmine Todd and Dana Giordano recap the first day of the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships LIVE from Eugene, Oregon. We saw surprises in the men's and women's 1500m; Sydney McLaughlin cruised through the 400m first round; some big names didn't make it out of the first round of the men's 100m; six members of the U.S. team for Budapest we...

Kelsey Quinn has just been announced as the new assistant coach of the On Athletics Club. She will be working closely alongside coach Dathan Ritzenhein and team operations manager Andrew Wheating. She brings with her a decade of coaching experience at the NCAA level. She just spent three years as the assistant coach at Utah. She also has experience from stops in Portland, Washington, Warner Pacifi...

"Even in the first week, it's just extremely apparent that this is the perfect environment for me. We've already done workouts that would pretty much have been impossible for me before, but I think it's just having so many World Championship Olympic quality guys in a train that I can just hop into and be a part of that just really elevates every athlete. A lot of people think you...

"The six stars is still the dream. We’re still seeing what will happen but it’s still a dream." It’s been two months since Eliud Kipchoge walked off Boylston Street following a sixth-place finish at the Boston Marathon. It was a bit of a shocker for him. He, entered the weekend with 15 wins in 17 marathons and looking to check off Boston from his list of the World Marathon Majors that he...

"We think of ourselves as people on a journey. So when you get to your first station, that's not the end of the journey. We still have to walk some more distance. That is their mindset and it's my mindset because if I dwell on the past, then we'll end up in that station. We still have many to cover, and I’m happy that they still trust me to cover their distance and be with them.&q...

"I always define the impossible as possible. Nothing is impossible to me. I always put my mind to do impossible things." Montverde Academy rising senior Adaejah Hodge shook the track and field world when she won the New Balance Nationals Indoor 200m title in 22.33 seconds. The performance broke the previous record of 22.97 by Bianca Knight, which stood since 2007. Hodge also qualified fo...

"This is a lesson to all people out there to keep the faith. Sometimes even though what you think you might want, might not be what's for you. As my mother always said to me, 'What's for you won't pass you by.' Sometimes we just need to have a little patience. And sometimes that patience can not just be weeks or months but it can be years. I've always thought I'm m...

We're just two years into CITIUS MAG being my full-time job and it's been awesome bringing our readers, listeners, followers and supporters along for the journey since this was just a blog + space to geek out on track and field while on the side of my full-time job at Sports Illustrated. We're proud of the audience and loyal following that we've grown across all channels including...

"A lot of people talk about how they appreciate how supportive I am of them or how they don't understand how I can look at people and I have the utmost support and faith in you because I haven't done anything to deserve that. Well, if there's one thing my dad taught me is that you can't always look at the stats or how people appear to be on the surface. Sometimes you just know...

On this week’s show, Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber and Mac Fleet do quite a bit of problem-solving and explain recent rule changes by World Athletics including their decision to rename indoor track to ‘short track’ and removing the time qualifiers for the distance races at the World Championships. We also look into the United States’ path to getting a man to qualify for the Olympic marathon. Learn mor...

"It just felt like the right time. My body hasn’t held up to the training necessary to compete. There’s nothing I can really do about it. I’m so thankful for the career that I had. It’s led me to some of the best connections and relationships in my life. I couldn’t imagine I would’ve got this far when I started. The competitor in me believes there are things I could’ve done that I didn’t but...

“Women with kids keep getting better. You become strong. It’s the opposite of what some people might think. Because sometimes people would be like, ‘if you go on maternity leave, you might be done.’ It’s becoming the opposite. If you look at Keira (D’Amato) or Aliphine (Tuliamuk), you can bounce back and do better than what you used to. Even in my 20s, I wasn’t feeling the way I feel right now, es...

A lot has happened in the track and field world – mostly off the track. Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber and Mac Fleet round up some of the biggest news and storylines including: – The Kip Keino Classic recap ft. big wins by Sha'Carri Richardson, Ferdinand Omanyala, Mary Moraa and new rising middle-distance stars – Where would you put a new Diamond League meet? – How is Kyle feeling about his predict...

Chris Chavez and Katelyn Hutchison recap their experiences and the standout performances at On Track Nights' Los Angeles stop – Sound Running's Track Fest – and the Atlanta City Games. We dive into what made the meets stand out to us, what other meets could learn from them and how they all fit into the rest of the season. We touch on Sha'Carri Richardson winning the women's 100m at...

"My advice to the younger women is: If you're passionate about this, pursue it. That's what it is. That's how it's going to change for the next generation of women to get to where I'm at now. I'm hoping that some of these younger female coaches are inspired by what we're doing at BYU and they're seeing here that she’s a mom; she's a coach; she's at a D-...

“Especially this year, what I want to do is be better than last year. I feel like my mentality in the fall and winter was to run better than I did last year. Even though maybe I didn’t have the position results I wanted, I PR’ed in every single event. I’ve accomplished those goals and now for the outdoor season, I just want to win races and be one of the best in the world.” Mario Garcia Romo is a...