86: Brittany Charboneau - Show Up and Race

C Tolle Run

Running, Health & Fitness, Sports, Fitness

4.7 • 557 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Carrie interviews runner and comedian Brittany Charboneau! In this episode, Brittany discusses qualifying for the US Olympic Marathon trials, training for the TCS New York City Marathon, and her one woman show entitled "My Long Distance Relationship with Running."

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Brittany Charboneau

Denver-native Brittany Charboneau, also known as "The Funny Runner", is a professional marathoner who is simultaneously chasing her passion for comedy and acting (pun absolutely intended). Brittany ran Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field at Colorado State University. Following college, Brittany began her marathon debut at the 2012 Colorado Marathon. It wasn't until her first place finish and new course record at the 2017 Colfax Marathon in Denver that Brittany decided to take her marathon career to an elite level. She went on to win the 2017 Kansas City Marathon, and swept the runDisney race series in early 2018 with her wins at the DisneyWorld Half Marathon, Disney Princess 10k and Star Wars Dark Side Half Marathon. The Los Angeles Marathon saw a sixth place overall finish, second American and an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time of 2:36:35. She has her sights set on qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Marathon and will be competing at the 2018 New York Marathon. While pursuing running, Brittany has also debuted her one-woman comedy show that showcases her 17-year running journey in Denver in June 2018. "My Long Distance Relationship with Running: From the Early Miles to the Olympic Trials" will be making its way to Chicago during the Chicago Marathon weekend this fall.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C. Tully Run podcast.
0:11.2	Today I'm interviewing Brittany Sharbonneau.
0:13.5	Brittany is an Olympic trials qualifier and a comedian.
0:16.8	In this episode, Brittany discusses qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, her training for the TCS New York City Marathon, and her one-woman show entitled My Long Distance Relationship with Running.
0:28.3	Let's get after it.
0:32.6	Thank you so much for joining us on C-Talley Run, Brittany.
0:36.0	Of course. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm really
0:38.3	excited. Like, I have heard about you, but, and I've obviously seen your major and incredible
0:44.7	running that you've been doing lately, but to hear that you're an actress, but more so a comedian
0:50.8	is really exciting for me. Thank you.
0:57.4	Yeah, it's a crazy world, that's for sure.
1:03.5	So let's talk a little bit about how you got into running, and we'll get into where you're at right now, but let's talk to talk about how you started.
1:07.4	Sure.
1:07.7	So I started running back in eighth grade.
1:13.9	So it was about 17 years ago, and it it was I joined the track team because it was the thing to do it was just a social thing and I ended up loving it and was
1:21.0	good at this thing called the mile which I had no context for how far that was or anything like that. And it kind of snowballed from there.
1:30.1	My coaches encouraged me to join the cross-country team the next year in high school, which,
1:34.9	of course, I had no idea what that was either. And that's what was the cat. That was my cat.
1:44.2	I've got two of them.
1:45.2	One of them is named, there's a pool party on Saturday, and one of them is snacks, and snacks is going crazy. Wait, now, hold on. What did you just say? Yes. One is named what? There's a pool party on Saturday. That's her full name, and that's what she goes by. Hilarious. Okay. And then we got the second one and we were like, well, we can't just, we can't have a pool party on Saturday without snacks. So we named him snacks. I love it. Is the next one like drinks or something like that? We're going to stick with two cats for now because they're crazy enough as it is. Oh, funny. Yeah, so anyway, sorry about that.
2:19.9	Minor distraction, but that is my world. So I ran in high school, I ran cross-country and
2:26.9	track all through high school, and then I ran, I took two years off when I got to college because I
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