Canadian Marathon Record Holder Natasha Wodak On Running With Less Pressure And More Fun | LIVE From The TCS Toronto Waterfron
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
CITIUS MAG
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
2x Olympian and Canadian record holder Natasha Wodak is set to take center stage at the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon. The 42-year-old Canadian record holder returns to Toronto to race the marathon for the first time in 11 years and she's targetting her first-ever national marathon title.
She has had a rollercoaster journey over the past 18 months from attempting to qualify for Paris 2024 but falling short. Despite these challenges, she’s coming off a strong year and now she's approaching the TWM with a new mindset, enjoying the chance to race in front of family and friends without the pressure of Olympic standards.
With a personal best of 2:23:12, Wodak’s goal is to secure the Canadian title. Hear about the various chapters of her running journey, her love for training, and how she’s embraced the marathon’s challenges with resilience and determination.
LIVE from the 2024 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon Expo!
Hosts:
Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Karen Lesiewicz | @kare_les on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going Toronto? |
| 0:07.0 | So this is Citius Max's first time up in Canada for a major race and people here |
| 0:16.7 | super friendly it's been tons of fun so far Karen and I both ran the 5K this morning. The vibes are high, the crews are out. |
| 0:26.7 | Karen, what were your first impressions of Canada and Toronto? |
| 0:30.5 | Oh my God, I mean I'm loving it here. I'm from the Midwest, so I think I'm getting you know some of the some of the things here |
| 0:36.6 | but it's a little bit better than Chicago for me right now. I think there and that's that's rare to say but the weather's been great the people are |
| 0:44.7 | even friendlier I don't know how that's possible so I've been having a really great time |
| 0:49.2 | I want to know what your first impressions were. No, it's perfect. |
| 0:54.2 | You know, we, the pace this morning on our 5K |
| 0:58.1 | was a little spicy at the beginning, |
| 1:00.5 | and it caught up to us at the very end. |
| 1:03.0 | It did. |
| 1:04.0 | But overall great time. |
| 1:06.0 | Many thanks to TCS for bringing us out here. |
| 1:09.0 | The Canadian Running Series A6. So we're super excited to be here with everyone and |
| 1:16.7 | I'm stoked for tomorrow. We will be doing an alternate broadcast of the race which you can find within the TCS Toronto Waterfront |
| 1:26.0 | Marathon app. It'll also be streamed on the Citius mag YouTube channel where |
| 1:31.2 | we'll be plugging into the main feed our first ever |
| 1:34.4 | time having the rights to broadcast the race so you'll see the elites and then at the |
| 1:38.1 | same time we're gonna be pulling in members of the Toronto running community as well. |
| 1:43.4 | Like we want to hear what the running culture here is like |
| 1:46.2 | and highlighting, you know, a lot of the masses |
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