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    Helene Elliott: How 'a big, drastic change' led steeplechaser Colleen Quigley to the triathlon

    by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times Jun 23, 2023 5 minutes
    Colleen Quigley of Los Angeles, steeplechaser/triathlete, at Drake Stadium on the UCLA campus on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — Something had to change. That became clearer with each of the frustrating injuries middle-distance runner Colleen Quigley suffered not long after she had made the U.S. team for the 2016 Rio Olympics and finished eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

    From 2018 through 2021 she couldn't string together more than eight or 10 weeks of consistent training. "I just started breaking down all the time," she said. But there were risks to leaving the familiar — the famed Bowerman Track Club in Oregon — for the unknown. Quigley, the 2019 U.S. indoor mile champion, was accustomed to routines and group workouts. Where could she go to find that — or something better?

    Around the same time, her contract with Nike was expiring. The company had subjected her to pay cuts if she

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