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Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullif and welcome to the C-Tali Run podcast. My guest today is the legendary Dick Beardsley. You might know him from his famous duel in the sun at the Boston Marathon, his 33-year course record at Grandma's Marathon or his motivational speaking on overcoming addiction.

In this episode, we go for a walk and we discuss his current training on two artificial knees,

his ongoing battle with addiction, and also how a little dachshund got a little revenge on Dick Beardsley.

So let's get after it.

All right, Dick Beardsley, we're here in Duluth. And we're so excited when we heard that you're obviously willing to do one of these

running slash walking podcast. I love it, Carrie. I know, you know, there's always, you got to evolve

with this sport, right? Absolutely. This is a new thing. I know it. And I wanted to do it where we, I'm going to move your mic in, where we were actually kind of working out. Because I don't know about you, but for me, some of my best conversations with my friends have been either on the run or at meets before you're racing.

I hear you. And, you know, the thing is, it's a good thing we're walking because with me running now and trying to talk to you, oh, I'd be grunting and huffing and putting like an old bear. Oh, that's great. That's what people love. But, you know, let's get into that a little bit. Everybody knows Dick Beardsley. Obviously, the big story was with you and Alberta Salazar in Boston.

What year was it again?

1882, 35 years ago. It's hard to believe. It's like crazy. Were you even born in?

I was five. Five. Oh my gosh.

Yes. But, so I mean, you've become a long way though though, since then. You're still so active in the sport.

So let's kind of talk about what you're doing now and what you're up to. Yeah, well, really, you know, like people always ask me, Carrie, so Dick, what kind of training are you doing now? And I said, well, I don't train. And they kind of look a little bit bewildered. I said, I run every day, but I don't train. and, you know, I've got a couple of knee replacements.

And that doesn't...

Just a couple. Just a couple. And have you had one repaired? I've had one repaired, so I had a revision on my left one. Okay. And it still gives me a little bit of trouble once in a while. But, you know, I get out and I run, oh, this time of the year, in the summertime, I run about 35 to 40 miles a week because

you know being a fishing guide I'm usually out running by about 3.30 in the morning because

then I got to go pick up people so I cut it back a little bit but up north

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