Hi, I'm Olympian Kerry Tullifson and welcome to the C-Talai Run podcast. Today I interview Shannon

Rowberry. Shannon is a three-time Olympian and is one of the most decorated middle distance

runners in U.S. history. She's a two-time world championship bronze medalist and now

is being upgraded and will be the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist for the 1500. In this episode, we talk

about that upgrade to bronze for the 2012 Olympics. We talk about our sport and its highs and its lows.

We also hear about her training and goals for the upcoming New York City

Marathon. She tells us how she's wrapping her head around just trying to experience something

new, like a new distance, but also how she runs for her heart and spirit these days and not so much

as a job. She tells us what her life is like now, and we swap some of our broadcast stories, and

oh my goodness, the fun that happens behind the scenes of commentary, it brought some good laughs

for us today. Just a big congrats to Shannon for staying on the course and for getting what

she deserves with all of her hard work. I hope you enjoy this episode, so let's get after it.

All right, Shannon, you are back here on C-Tali Run, and we have been, like, texting again and,

like, let's get you back on, but this is just like our way of catching back up, regardless

if I hit record or not, so nice to see you, Fred. I like it right before you press record. You're like, I need to just press record before I forget and we talk the whole time. Exactly. I mean, I don't get to see you very much. Here and there, we're on the mic together and, you know, but we're quite far apart. But at the same time, I just, It's so nice that there's social media because I can keep up with you and you're but we're we're quite far apart but at the same time i just it's so nice that

there's social media because i can keep up with you and you're doing some great things so

thanks for coming back on the show yeah it's cool it's cool how our um post running journeys

have continued to had brought us together more i think after competition after competition than when we were racing on the track.

So it's fun.

It's, you know, it's a hard, we were talking before you press record about this kind of broadcasting world.

And it's, it's a really fun way to stay connected with the sport, but it's also, you know, a steep learning

curve and no, you know, no clear path on how to develop for it. So it's nice to have a peer,

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