425: Calli Hauger-Thackery - You Can't Expect It To Be Easy

C Tolle Run

Sports, Fitness, Running, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Calli Hauger-Thackery is a 2024 Olympian, 2024 European Half Marathon bronze medalist, and the second-fastest British female marathoner of all time. She joins C Tolle Run following major victories at the Honolulu Marathon and, most recently, the 2026 Chevron Houston Marathon. In this episode, we dive deep into Calli’s journey, from her early love of running to her collegiate career at the University of New Mexico, her professional running career, and how she’s now paying it forward by coaching the next generation of runners. Calli shares how she made the leap to the professional ranks, met her husband, ran her first marathon, and built the momentum that has defined the past few years of her career. We also explore the highs and lows that come with elite competition and life beyond the sport. It’s an honest, inspiring conversation that covers the moments, mindset, and milestones that shaped one of the best distance runners in the world.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Olympian Kerry Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:10.9	This week on C-Taly Run, we bring you Callie Hally-Hawger Thackeray.
0:15.4	Callie is a 2024 Olympian.
0:17.3	She won the bronze medal at the European half marathon championships in 2024 and get this.
0:23.2	She's a 2021 marathoner, which happens to be just the second fastest British marathoner of all time
0:30.7	behind the legendary Paula Radcliffe. In this episode, we dig into all things Callie. How she got
0:36.7	into the sport, running for New Mexico,
0:38.9	becoming a pro, meeting her husband, running her first marathon and her momentum the last few years,
0:45.5	running through the highs and lows of life, and so much more. So let's get after it.
0:52.1	Well, hello, Callie. I'm so excited to have you on the show. Oh, hello. It's so good to be here.
0:58.9	Thank you for having me on. Yeah, I mean, we've been able to see each other quite a bit in the last year,
1:03.8	you know, just at all the different races, partly because lady, you race a lot. You like to keep
1:10.2	it going, don't you? Yeah, I feel like last year was
1:14.7	definitely a big year of racing. Yeah, just especially because I did dabble in a lot of different
1:21.4	distances, track, roads. It made it feel like I raced a lot. Yeah. It's been really fun to watch, but I think like, I can't wait to get into all of it because just like watching how you and your husband do things together and also build this life around your races.
1:38.9	Like, you know, when I was racing, we didn't really do anything extra because everyone was so nervous that we would,
1:45.5	we wouldn't run the way we were going to, we should run. And it's just been really cool to see how
1:49.8	you put your running first, well, you put your relationship first, but you put your running first,
1:54.6	but you also build in fun around it. So we're going to get into all of it. But I have to just say,
2:00.3	congratulations on Houstonston thank you yeah
2:05.0	no houston was tough it was tough turnaround i don't recommend a four-week turnaround from from marathon to
2:11.5	marathon i think there's a good reason why people have a big turnaround between each marathon but that's
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