7: Shalane Flanagan - Push Back Harder

C Tolle Run

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Carrie interviews four-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan! Shalane discusses her withdrawal from the 2017 Boston Marathon, life as a foster mom to twin girls and the upcoming sequel to her popular cookbook, Run Fast, Eat Slow.

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Shalane Flanagan Shalane is an Olympic medalist, four-time Olympian, American record holder, and world-class marathoner. She finished second at the 2010 NYC marathon and ran the fastest time ever by an American woman at the 2014 Boston Marathon, completing the race in 2:22.02. At the 2014 Berlin Marathon, Shalane ran a personal best of 2:21.14, the second-fastest time ever by an American woman.

Nike has sponsored Shalane since she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. She has been running at an elite level for 16 years and typically runs 100-plus miles a week. She attributes her ability to sustain this level of training to her nutrient-dense diet. Focusing on fueling for health and performance is an integral part of her training regimen.

Shalane has been featured on the cover of Runner’s World, Women's Running, Running Times, Competitor Magazine, and Track and Field News. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, ESPN Outside the Lines, and Oprah. Her inspiring story has also been heralded in Women's Health, Shape, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. Shalane speaks passionately about the importance of healthy eating at running events across the country. Shalane lives and trains in Portland, Oregon.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Telethson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:12.5	Today I'm interviewing Shalane Flanagan.
0:14.7	Where do I begin?
0:16.1	This fast lady has done it all.
0:18.4	She's a four-time Olympian.
0:20.1	She holds numerous American records. And recently,
0:23.0	she co-authored the cookbook, Run Fast, Eat Slow. I could easily talk to her all day. So let's get after it.
0:32.9	I'm kind of bummed because I wanted to have like this happy joy joy podcast with you and we will,
0:39.0	but I have to start off with the news that you're injured and coming, you had to pull out of
0:43.7	Austin. Yeah, I mean, I've been so lucky in my career to not really have many injuries at all.
0:51.3	I can really only think of two significant ones and actually neither of them actually
0:56.7	took me out of a race. They were timed perfectly somehow. So this is the first time in injuries
1:02.1	really taking me away from a goal and an objective that I had. So I consider myself really
1:07.5	fortunate and lucky person. But that being said, it's still painful to miss out
1:12.5	on a race that means so much to me. And I had to skip Boston last year because of the Olympic
1:17.5	trials and the Olympics, and it just wasn't feasible to squeeze in Boston between them and
1:21.8	wanted to run to my best ability for our country. So it just wasn't realistic. But yeah, I'm for sure bum.
1:29.9	There was a week there where I felt like I couldn't stop crying. I just don't know. I think
1:35.0	it just in various moments it would hit me that I kind of had to let go of that dream and that
1:39.0	goal. And as, you know, personally and as a lot of, I think a lot of runners like to plan ahead and have
1:45.4	this vision of what they want to happen. And sometimes it just, it doesn't happen. And so I just
1:49.7	kind of had to regroup and get excited about what's next and kind of grieve the loss of Boston for me.
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