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

Today I interview Melody Fairchild. Melody is known as one of America's best high school distance runners ever.

Melody won a bronze medal at the World Junior Cross Country Championships back in the early 1990s.

She was the first female high school runner to break 10 minutes for the 3200.

She was a winner of two Foot Locker National Championships,

and she holds a record for the fastest runner there running 1639 in 1990. In this episode we started off talking about her new book that she

and Elizabeth Carey co-wrote. It's called Girls Running. All you need to strive, thrive, and run your

best. We also talk about her memories of the sport and how she grew

with it, the ups and downs of life and sport. Being a mother and how losing her own mother changed her.

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