Ep 514 | Alicia Vargo – The Super Mom Returning to Elite Trail Running Following Loss and 4 Children
Bad Boy Running
Jody Raynsford & David Hellard
4.7 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, hello, Jody, hello, listeners. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to Bad Boy Running. |
| 0:08.4 | We're going straight in with our interview tonight, and we've just finished up. |
| 0:13.1 | It's very much an interview of two parts, because our next guest, she arrived on the |
| 0:18.3 | Golden Trail, having been away for six years, with four children, |
| 0:24.1 | taking away from running, returned at a super high level, came into the season, not even halfway |
| 0:30.7 | through, with only two races left, managed to qualify for the world finals, and then come top |
| 0:36.4 | 10 overall. But in this episode, we talked to her |
| 0:39.3 | about how she managed to do that, what the, the difficulties have been actually trying to |
| 0:44.7 | stay fit and then refocus when you've got just so many kids around you. But also, you know, |
| 0:51.2 | Alicia had a tragic, has a tragic story as well, |
| 0:57.1 | where in the 2008 Olympic trials in America, |
| 1:00.4 | her husband sadly dropped dead during the marathon. |
| 1:04.3 | So this episode, we start with talking about Trail |
| 1:08.0 | and her adaptation since coming back from from motherhood as such, |
| 1:15.5 | but then we also talked to her about how she's managed to use running and really mainly |
| 1:21.5 | the running community it seems as a good way to keep on moving forward. |
| 1:29.7 | So thanks listening, guys, and we'll crack on with the interview. |
| 1:32.8 | Thanks, Nick. |
| 1:34.6 | They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running. |
| 1:40.2 | Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford and David Heller |
| 1:46.4 | Come back |
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