Emma Coburn

Maybe it still exists.

It was founded by Christian Taylor, who's a U.S. long jumper, and Emma Coburn.

And They didn't really take on the language of kind of unionization.

It was just more of like having a collective voice.

That's surprising.

Yeah, and I felt like w- there was a lot, like, I was, uh, chatting with Emma Coburn a little bit throughout it, and there was a lot of time on the athlete after they won.

Mm-hmm.

And I felt like instead of following them for two or three minutes after they win and waiting for them to lift their trophy-

So impressed.

Yeah.

Um, okay, I'm gonna go with Emma Coburn welcomed a son to her family.

Good one.

Um, yeah, there were, there were a handful.

Oh, it might've been Emma Coburn was there.

I think Parker Valby was there.

There were, like, some cool-

Someone was sitting up near...

It might've been Emma Coburn.

Yeah.

It was a good-

And now it seems like she's in a pretty good place.

She gets along with Emma Coburn really well, had success, ran PBs under Joe.

If that part of the equation is figured out, she's going to split time between Gainesville and Boulder.

Then that's an important thing to have in place as you go forward the rest of your career.

But you've got a 12-second PB from 14.51 to 14.39. You're healthy and you have a training group you like.

That's huge.

And with someone like Emma Coburn who can teach you what it's like to be dedicated and reach the top.

Because you improve another 12 seconds, you get in the 1420s, you're basically, you know, top white girl in the world category with Batacladi.

So like that six-year stint, the stalwarts on the pro circuit were like kind of similar.

And Emma Coburn and Jen Lacaze and I raced each other.

in college and then raised each other for six years when I was still racing steeple all over the world and became friends and would find each other, would run together, would cool down together, would, hang out in the call room and Jen and I would would often find each other and sit next to each other in the call room at like all the biggest races because we had like a similar energy like going out to race day so I would say like yeah I I never trained with her like obviously Emmett Coburn and I became incredibly close friends and still are to this day and trained together um but uh, yeah, I would say like Jen Lacaze would be somebody who like, I it's, she's like such a gift to know.

And she's like one of the most wonderful human beings.

And I don't know, like, same with the women, like, American women.

There are some, like, really solid American women, but there's no Emma Coburn, there's no Evan Jager.

So I want, like, a American to, like, step up to this top Diamond League level again, man.

I miss it.