Courage to Tri With Bethany Rutledge
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In 2019 our first episode was full of success stories and inspiration for our listening audience. However, we did not have a female perspective, so today's episode will focus on Bethany Rutledge.
Bethany is an endurance coach, writer, small business owner, who regularly contributes to triathlon and endurance sports publications such as Triathlete Magazine, Women's Running, and more.
A self-described 'unlikely' endurance athlete, she and husband John are now co-owners of Atlanta Triathlon Club, a large triathlon community in Atlanta, GA, and Energy Lab, a unique cycling and coaching studio. Throughout her career as a coach, Rutledge has worked with hundreds of athletes, each with their own inspirational story.
Bethany is also a two-time Kona (IRONMAN Hawaii) qualifier and new mom of twin boys.
In this episode, Bethany describes her entry into running and endurance sports and her journey becoming an author and fitness coach. She shares with us how her book, The Courage to Tri: Finish Your First Triathlon. A Motivational How-To for Women, can help athletes of all levels have a successful Triathlon.
She also educates us on the rules, various courses and distances of triathlon events and how stretching out of our comfort zones by trying something new and challenging can open many doors beyond just fitness.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | The most important things with success are having that accountability and community. |
| 0:11.0 | So I talk a lot about in the book of finding your local group, |
| 0:14.3 | maybe signing up a friend for a race |
| 0:17.0 | if you think that she'll be into that, |
| 0:18.7 | but really just finding that accountability |
| 0:21.1 | and community, whether that looks like in person or online. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to the Run to the Top podcast |
| 0:28.0 | from Runners Connect, where it's all |
| 0:30.2 | about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach and host for the Ren to the |
| 0:52.2 | Top Podcast. In 2019 our first episode was full of |
| 0:57.6 | success stories and hopefully inspiration for all of you listening to the |
| 1:01.6 | podcast. What was limited was the female |
| 1:04.7 | side of things. So today's episode will focus on Bethany Rutledge, a two-time Kona Iron Man, Iron Woman, Triathlon Qualifier, an empowered athlete who has much to share |
| 1:17.4 | and many successes in her own life and as a coach. |
| 1:21.1 | Bethany will share her story of her unlikely rising as an endurance athlete and the subsequent |
| 1:26.9 | writing of her book Courage to Try. We'll speak with Bethany after a brief message from our sponsors. Stay tuned. |
| 1:37.4 | Today's episode is brought to you by one of our favorite training apps, Strava. |
| 1:44.0 | If you don't already know, Strava is the best |
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