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My guest for this episode is Chelsea Sudaro, who made history last month by winning the Iron Man Kona World Championship Women's Race and becoming the first American to win Kona since 2002 and the first American woman to win since 1996.

One of the most impressive parts to all of this is that she accomplished the feat just 18 months after giving birth to her daughter Skyler.

Chelsea was in fifth place going into the run before clocking a 251 split on the marathon.

That's after swimming 2.6 miles and biking 112 miles and she won by almost 8 minutes.

It's super impressive.

It was so great to catch up with Chelsea, who was a pro runner when I actually started covering track back in 2012 and I followed her career through her final track race in 2016 at the Olympic Trials.

So we go deep into her journey on how she found her calling in the triathlon, some of the highs and hardships from her pregnancy, which track and field can learn from another sport, and of course that epic day in Hawaii.

So without further ado, here is Chelsea Sudaro.

All right, Chelsea, I think the last time you and I ever did an interview together, it was probably at the mix zone of, you know, either a word field or maybe at one of those Stanford invitationals and life has changed a lot since then.

So welcome back to you kind of well, welcome to the city is back podcast, but on top of that, the track community is going to be so, you know, happy to hear from you again just because of all the recent success you've had and you're just your star once again.

So thanks for taking the time to do this Chelsea.

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