86. What's New With You Week with Kara Goucher
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
"I don’t think I’ll ever retire. If something motivates me, I want to go for it." —Kara Goucher
Kara Goucher is back on the Ali on the Run Show, talking about her new book, Strong, how keeping a confidence journal changed her life, and where her running career is at right now. She also talks about the current state of women's running, and reflects on how choosing to have a child at the height of her professional running career affected her job. Plus, she answers the two questions everyone keeps asking: Is she retired, and does she want more kids?
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- Kara dishes about her new book, Strong, and how keeping a confidence journal has changed her life (2:00)
- Kara recounts her performance at this year’s Grandma’s Marathon, and reflects on the highs and lows of the day (7:30)
- Kara opens up about what it’s like when your competitor has an amazing day and you have a less-than-stellar one (13:10)
- Where Kara’s at with her running career right now (17:40)
- What it’s like watching American women dominate on the roads and track right now (20:15)
- Kara talks about running during and after pregnancy, and why she returned to running so soon after giving birth to her son, Colt (26:30)
- How choosing to have a child actually affected Kara’s professional running career (32:35)
- Whether Kara still wants to dabble in ultra running (38:00)
- Is Kara retired? (40:00)
- Does Kara want more kids? (42:00)
What we mention on this episode:
Kara Goucher on Episode 43 of the Ali on the Run Show
Dr. Stephen Walker, sports psychologist
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's New With You Week is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to the second episode in this special 7-Day 7 episode 7 guest series. |
| 0:13.5 | During what's new with You Week, I'll be catching up with 7 past favorite guests |
| 0:17.9 | to see what they've been up to since the last time we talked on the Alley on the Run show. |
| 0:22.1 | And today, fresh off being the single most downloaded episode of the show in 2017, |
| 0:28.2 | the one and only Kara Goucher. |
| 0:30.6 | Kara was on episode 43 of The Alley on the Run show last October, |
| 0:34.6 | and I was eager to talk to her this time around to get her take on the current state of women's running, |
| 0:39.6 | what it's like watching American women dominate the roads in the track right now, |
| 0:44.0 | and where she's at with her own running. |
| 0:46.5 | She also, as always, was willing to get candid and answer the tough questions |
| 0:50.4 | like what her family plans are for the future. |
| 0:53.5 | Take it away, Kara. |
| 0:58.9 | Kara Goucher, welcome back to The Alley on the Run show. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm so happy to have you here today. |
| 1:05.8 | Thank you. I'm excited to be back. |
| 1:07.8 | All right, so remind everyone, give us a little warm up, |
| 1:10.4 | tell everyone who you are, where you're from, and what it is that you do. |
| 1:13.8 | I am Kara, and I live in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 1:17.4 | I run for a living, so I guess I'm a professional athlete, |
| 1:21.4 | but I don't race very much anymore, but I still run a lot |
| 1:27.4 | and I am a mom to a seven and a half year old, and yeah, that's pretty much me. |
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