37: Paula Radcliffe - It's A Great Sport

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 557 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Carrie interviews the fastest women's marathoner in history, Paula Radcliffe! Paula chats about injuries, her partnership with her husband and memories of training with her Dad. They also discuss athletes advocating for a clean sport, and the upcoming Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

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Paula Radcliffe

Paula Radcliffe was born in Northwich, Cheshire, in 1973, but grew up in Bedford. She joined Bedford and County Athletics Club at the age of 11 and competed at the World Cross Country Championships at 16.After graduating from Loughborough University with a first-class degree in modern languages in 1996, she devoted herself full-time to her running and is now acknowledged as one of the finest athletes of the modern era. As well as her achievements on the track, Paula has established herself as the master of the ultimate distance race, the marathon. She holds the world record and won the London Marathon in 2002, 2003 and 2005. In November 2004 she won the New York Marathon in breath-taking style and in 2005 she took the gold medal at the World Championships in Helsinki for the same distance. She was awarded an MBE in June 2002 and later that year was voted the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.

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0:00.0	This episode of Sea Talley Run is brought to you by Kind Snacks. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love their products because they contain ingredients you can actually see and pronounce. So I know I'm giving my kids something healthy to eat. I especially like their pressed fruit bars. Learn more at Kind Snacks.com.
0:28.5	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the SeaTolly Run podcast.
0:31.2	My guest today is Paula Radcliffe.
0:34.5	Paula is the fastest women's marathoner in history.
0:38.5	She's also a three-time London and New York City Marathon champion.
0:44.1	In this episode, we talk about cleaning up our sport, watching her kids race, struggling with injuries, and much more. Plus, we get top secrets from a woman who has run two hours and
0:49.4	15 minutes for the marathon. You don't want to miss this episode. So let's get after it.
0:57.4	Well, thanks, Paula, for joining us. I'm so excited to talk to you. I only get to see you normally
1:01.9	once or twice a year at one of the marathons that we're commentating at together. So this is
1:06.2	exciting for me. Oh, no, it's great to chat. Great to catch up. Yeah, I look at this cute picture of your two
1:11.9	little kiddo, so talk about those guys real quick. That's a while ago, that one as well. They're good.
1:18.8	They just started back at school. We were late starting back. We had 10 weeks of summer holidays,
1:23.2	which was long, but they're happy to get back into school now. And my little one, Raphael,
1:29.8	started at athletics now just this year. So I took him to the track on Wednesday and he sat there
1:34.9	and he went off with his little group and then I went to collect him. And I said, how did it go?
1:39.2	It was great, Mommy, but can I please go run another three laps? Oh my gosh. I love it. So he's six. Is that
1:46.7	correct? Yeah, he'll turn seven the end of this month. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I thought that you and
1:52.0	Carol are both expecting right after I had. I think he's like four or five days after Colt.
1:58.0	Yes. Okay. And Ila, your oldest is how old?
2:01.5	She will be 11 in January, so she's just over 10 and a half.
2:04.8	No way.
2:06.3	Yeah, it goes quick, really quickly.
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