Jeannette Mathieu
QT: 2:44:48
Residence: San Francisco, CA
Hometown: Winchester, VA
College: Vanderbilt University
Age on Race Day: 29
Affiliation: Peninsula Distance Club
Qualifying Race: California International Marathon 2019
Marathon Best: 2:44:48
Favorite inspirational quote: "Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." - Buddhist Proverb
Favorite show: Scrubs
Favorite post-race indulgence: All the breakfast food!
Of Note:
- Resident Physician in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco
- Long hours and stressful "night float" work creates a training challenge; will have several weeks of night float leading into Trials
- Recently read her own MRI for a running injury
- Was a piano performance major; won Vanderbilt's concerto competition as a junior
- A favorite memory is running with a friend up Millcreek Canyon to the Wasatch Crest trail in Salt Lake City in a snowstorm; turned around when a moose was blocking the route
- Credits 2014 AJC Peachtree Road Race and USATF 10 km Champion Christo Landry, a friend of a friend, with helping her recent training
