Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.

Today I'm interviewing Kelly Heron.

Kelly has an incredible story of survival.

She was recently attacked in a women's restroom while out on her run in Seattle.

She fought her attacker with self-defense moves.

She had learned just three weeks earlier.

She's such an amazing woman.

So let's get after it.

Can we just start with the story and, you know, this terrible attack that you, you know, were under just a few

weeks ago and fought off. And can you just tell us a little bit about that day and, and how

you're recovering from it? Sure. I'm currently training for the Seattle Rock and Roll Marathon.

Which is when again, Kelly? When is that next fall? June 18th. Oh, June 18th already. Okay.

I know. So I'm about, so I was about nine weeks into training and you know how it is with the

Sunday long run. It was about 38 degrees outside. Raining. Not the most inviting, but, you know, the training schedule waits for no one.

So I decided to do something a little bit different, you know, give my brain something new to

look at, and decided to go down to Golden Gardens, which is a public park here in Seattle, beautiful

beach and really popular in the summertime and just really gorgeous year-round.

And so I was about four and a half miles into my run and went down to the end of the beach.

There was a public restroom and I thought,

you know, might as well go while you have the chance. Right. So stopped to use the restroom.

I had my ear warmers on since it was such a cold day. But I had the volume of my music down because

I tried to be very mindful, especially since I had just taken a self-defense class,

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