20: Rose Wetzel - Rewarded with Freedom

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 557 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Carrie interviews elite runner, American Ninja Warrior, and mom-to-be Rose Wetzel! Rose talks about growing up in a large family, her husband's battle with cancer, and her time on American Ninja Warrior. She also shares details about her pregnancy and her excitement to be a mom!

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Rose Wetzel

Rose Wetzel is a Georgetown University middle distance runner who now competes professionally as an obstacle course racer and a competitor on American Ninja Warrior. Her athletic journey zigged and zagged along since she first stepped foot on a track in high school twenty years ago, taking her from an 2x 800m high school state champion to a junior All-American 1500m runner at Georgetown, only to hit a bump after college, a bit burnt out. She experienced a "quarter-life crisis" in her early 20s, gained weight, ran local road races in costume for fun, and somehow still qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon, only to fall back in love with running and pursue the 2012 Olympic Trials in the 1500m. She came up short, but had a blast and took her rejuvenated fitness level to the obstacle course racing world, where she's finished top 5 in the world at the Spartan World Championships and made it to American Ninja Warrior Finals the last two years. She's grateful to her sponsors: CLIF bar, Marriott Rewards and HumanN, who continue to support her throughout her pregnancy. She's due July 17, 2017, and she's determined to make it back on the Spartan Race World Championship starting line 2.5 months later. Rose plans to compete strong for years to come, as she feels like her best as an athlete is still to come.

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0:00.0	This episode of Sea Talley Run is brought to you by Kind Snacks.
0:03.3	I love them, my husband Charlie loves them, and most importantly, my kids love them.
0:08.3	The best part is they contain real ingredients.
0:11.3	Learn more at Kind Snacks.com.
0:20.7	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Telethsen, and welcome to the Sea Talley Run podcast.
0:25.6	Today I'm interviewing Rose Wetzel.
0:27.6	You might know her from American Ninja Warrior.
0:30.4	She's an obstacle course racer and a fierce all-around athlete.
0:34.2	She's also pregnant with her first child, so I just had to catch up with her. In this episode,
0:39.2	we talk about her racing, her marriage, pregnancy, her husband Tim's struggle with cancer,
0:44.6	and so much more. So let's get after it. Hey, Rose Wetzel, how you doing? I'm doing really well. How are you, Carrie? Good. Thanks for being on our podcast. I'm so excited to have you. Thank you for having me. This is awesome. Yeah, okay. So are you 33 weeks pregnant? I am 32 in a couple days. So I'm rock and rolling, getting there. My goodness, how do you feel? Baby number one.
1:12.1	Baby number one, you know, it is awesome and exciting on one hand, and it's also like super scary
1:17.6	on the other hand because it's just so new. It's such an adventure. But I'm, yeah, looking forward to it.
1:24.3	So you're going to be a mommy, but just so some of our listeners, they might not
1:28.0	always know what's going on in this crazy world that I live in. You are a runner, an OCR girl,
1:34.7	so an obstacle course racer. You are almost a mommy to be. You're married to a awesome guy that
1:42.3	I'm going to get into it a little bit later on.
1:44.8	And you're also a coach.
1:46.2	So you got all kinds of fun things going on.
1:48.8	Yeah.
1:49.2	And also, it's funny.
1:50.7	Of all those things, some people know me most by just the like couple minutes once or twice a year that I spend on American Ninja Warrior.
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