Who Is Vincent Mauri? How A Self-Coached Running Shoe Store Employee Ran 2:05 In His First Marathon

Who Is Vincent Mauri? How A Self-Coached Running Shoe Store Employee Ran 2:05 In His First Marathon

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

April 27, 2026 · 1h 15m

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Vincent Mauri shares his journey of running a remarkable 2:05 marathon debut without a coach or sponsor.

“No clocks on the course. I had average pace and current pace on my watch, nothing else. I popped into the finishing stadium and I thought the clock said 2:09. Then two seconds later I realized it said 2:05. I was like: what is going on today?” My guest for today’s episode is Vincent Mauri. You’re probably wondering: Who?! Well, we’ll answer that question in the next hour. On Sunday morning in Toledo, Ohio, the 24-year-old biomedical engineering graduate and shoe store employee from Youngstown ran 2:05:53 in his marathon debut. He has no agent. No sponsor. There’s no half marathon results on his resume. No coach. His last tracked competitive result was a 5K at the ACC Championships in 2025 where he got lapped by Ethan Strand and Gary Martin. And the race he ran on Sunday only existed because the one he originally signed up for got canceled three days out. Vinny trained himself, entirely, averaging 110 miles a week, two big sessions, a long Sunday run and a double threshold Tuesday, a lot of work on treadmills at Planet Fitness through a brutal Ohio winter and doing almost all of it in non-super shoes. He built his training philosophy from fragments of five different college…

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