“Was I shocked? No, because we know that people do it. 10 years later, am I happy? No. That took a lot of money away from me and a moment.” Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison speak with former U.S. 400m hurdle star Lashinda Demus just a few weeks after the news broke that Russia's Natalya Antyukh has been stripped of her results from July 2012 to June 2013, which includes the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Demus is now in line to be upgraded to gold. They get her reaction to that news but also go...

TeeTee Terry joins Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison to discuss her first season as a professional runner, which she wrapped up by anchoring Team USA to a gold medal in the women's 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships. Before signing a contract with Nike, she set the 100m school record at USC and anchored the 4 fastest 4x100m relays in USC history. This season, she also set a personal best of 10.87 for 100m. TeeTee trains under coach Dennis Mitchell with Star Athletics in...

"Believe in yourself. I got it tatted on me." Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison are joined by Champion Allison, a 400m specialist who was part of the Florida Gators' NCAA Outdoor Championship winning team this past spring. He went on to finish second at the U.S. Outdoor Championships in June with a personal best of 43.70. The time puts him at No. 10 on the all-time 400m World list and No. 8 on the all-time U.S. 400m list. He signed a professional contract with Puma before finishing fourth...

Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison sit down with Tori Franklin after winning a bronze medal in the women's triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Oregon22. Tori is a Michigan State alum and Chicago, Ill. native. She has competed at three World Outdoor Championships, one World Indoor Championship and the 2021 Olympics. In this episode, she discusses the major life and career changes that she made and overcame to catapult herself from a 9th place finish in Doha to the first...

Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison talk with Erica Bougard, a five-time U.S. champion who finished 4th at the 2019 World Championships and competed at the Tokyo Olympics. Bougard caught global attention at the 2019 World Championships in Doha for wearing high jump shoes with the rainbow flag while competing in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal. She is openly bisexual.  For the next few episodes, CITIUS MAG and the Out of The Blocks Podcast partnered with Nike to celebrate the many...

Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison speak with U.S. 100m champion Melissa Jefferson on the power of community that helped her become one of the best short sprinters in the country. She ran a wind-aided 10.69 to become the No. on the U.S. all-time, all-conditions list. After finishing 8th at the NCAA Championships in the 100m, she stormed back to win the USATF Championships a few weeks later. She was also the NCAA indoor champion at 60m while at Coastal Carolina.  For the next few episodes,...

Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison share some of their own respective backstories in how they got involved with running and how they've found motivation. For Jasmine, her faith and her early success put her on a path to be motivated to chase records and titles while in high school and then at the University of Oregon. Katelyn is currently using her own lessons on motivation as she continues to improve upon her own personal bests while competing as a sprinter at the University of Kentucky this...

Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison speak with Noah Lyles just weeks after he successfully defended his 200m world championship gold medal and broke Michael Johnson's American record with a 19.31 performance in the final. His previous personal best before that race was 19.50. He led a Team USA medal sweep in the event. Only Jamaica's Usain Bolt (19.19) and Yohan Blake (19.26) have ever run faster. In this episode, he takes us through the progression of his career, what led to the breakthrough...

"I've been telling people for the longest amount of time, I was going to change track and field. I don't know how I was going to do it. I don't know when I was going to do it. I don't know what I was going to come up with but I was going to do it...I meant that from the first time I said it to right now. I meant what I said. The first thing I saw that needed to change was what was going on in the mixed zone." We finally give our new co-host Katelyn Hutchison a proper introduction. She was a...

The guest for this episode is the reigning 110m hurdles world champion and Olympic silver medalist Grant Holloway. He is a professional hurdler for adidas running and we recorded this from the adidas hospitality suite in Eugene, Oregon last weekend. He is the second-fastest 110 hurdler in history but he’s had the world record on his mind for a while. This past winter, he ran 7.29 to tie his own world record in the 60m hurdles and won gold at the World Indoor Championships. He’s one of the...

Before defending his crown at the USATF Outdoor Championships, Noah Lyles took a moment to talk about his obsession with anime in a chat moderated by Out of The Blocks podcast host Katelyn Hutchison. He is also joined by professional steeplechaser Jordan Mann and high school 200m national champion Aidan McDuffie (Bullis School). You can watch the full episode here but also catch the conversation in podcast form on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Out of The Blocks with Jasmine Todd...

World Indoor Championships bronze medalist Donald Scott chats with Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison ahead of the 2022 USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships, where he will be going for his seventh U.S. title. Podcast presented by Adidas Running: In 2021, adidas’ Adizero Adios Pro family of shoes received the most wins during World Major Marathon events. 60% to be exact. And the all new Adizero Adios Pro 3 seeks to continue that legacy. The new “super” shoe is adidas’ ultimate...

Olympic Trials shot put champion and adidas professional thrower Jessica Ramsey joins Jasmine Todd and Katelyn Hutchison for an update on how she's feeling ahead of the 2022 U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the community shared by the field event athletes within the sport. She takes us through some of the highest moments of her career including a PanAm Games championship gold medal. ▶ Follow Jasmine Todd: Twitter | Instagram ▶ Follow Katelyn Hutchison: Twitter | Instagram You...

"I really wanted to get a national team title. Of course, I wanted to win as an individual but a true measure of an athlete is how great you can be with others. I really wanted to have an opportunity to do that. That’s why I decided to go to Florida. During my freshman year, we had a strong team but we were just missing a couple of pieces. Then we got Jasmine Moore, Anna Hall and we had some dogs on our team. The next year, I believed we have the most complete team and we were going to win....

"In 2016, I was fourth at the U.S. Olympic Trials. In the fall of that year, I was just like, 'That can't happen again.' I had this motivation. I didn't let the Olympic Trials tear me down. I went into that (2017) season hard – going hard every day..." Out the Blocks with Jasmine Todd with special guest Adidas long jumper and world championship finalist Sha'Keela Saunders! In this conversation, we touch on her versatility outside of the jumps with experience in the sprints, hurdles and...

"Out of college, I was working at Family Dollar, Dick Sporting Goods and just trying to keep some money in my pocket while I trained. I just knew I shouldn't be too worried because I knew what I had coming. It's definitely stressful if you don't have a contract in this sport, especially as a field eventer. We get no love." Donald Scott takes us through his progression as an athlete who dipped his toes in different events before truly mastering the triple jump at Eastern Michigan University....

"Life is going to have ebbs and flows. When we start to get doubtful, we start to make rash decisions. If you can see the path clearly, stick to it. If you can't, figure out the unclear parts. Chances are if you're a developmental athlete, you're pretty low on your developmental path. It takes a lot work to be far along on that path. So if you are low, there's a lot of things you can pick at to get better. If you just think that it's going to take care of itself or you're falling back on the...

"It was honestly a great experience. This is my first year not being sponsored so I felt like I had a chip on my shoulder this whole season just trying to prove that I am deserving of something...It was nice to see all of my hard work paying off and do something I've never done before and something that hasn't been done in the U.S. in a couple of years." One of the best stories to come out of the 2022 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Belgrade, Serbia was Team USA's Mikiah Brisco...