Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Talley Run podcast.

My guest today is Serena Berla.

Serena is a mother, a 226 marathoner, and a two-time cancer survivor.

In this episode, we talk about running, the importance of her coach,

her latest battle with cancer, and her recent opportunity to give a TED talk. Let's get after it.

It's been a while since I've seen you. I don't even know if it's been since maybe just seeing

you run the trials, but that's about it.

I mean, I haven't been around a lot of your races lately. So things are going well. I mean,

you did great over the summer. Yeah. World was a really, really wonderful experience for me.

Really fun to just represent Team USA and have like a solid performance, a very interesting race out

there and just like just fun to be a part of it. Yeah, I'm just going to kind of bring my listeners

back up to speed. So you ran the world championships this year in August in London. You placed 11th.

You fell early on in the race, correct? Yes, yes. It was a pretty

physical race, but yeah, like, it was one of those you fell down and you just pop back up and

get back in it. So how did you fall? Did somebody just clip you from behind or? I don't really

know. It was pretty tight and we were going around a corner, pretty sharp

to corner. So just, just racing, but that happens. And so you go down and you get back up and

then you guys had a huge pack up until, what, 30, 35K? Yes, yes. And what happened there?

Then I'm trying to think it was pretty, actually it might have been even later than that, that Amy made a move and it kind of broke the race wide open.

But yeah, it was just a really fun race to race with her and race with the best in the world

and just put myself in it.

Yeah, so Amy Craig is, she was bronze medalist.

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