Episode 446: Joan Benoit Samuelson; Pioneer in Women’s running- first Women’s Olympic Marathon Champion (1984)
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Joan Benoit Samuelson is an icon in our sport! Joan is the gold medalist from the first women’s Olympic marathon in 1984. She held the American record for 28 years in the marathon, 2:21:21, which she ran in Chicago. She won the Boston Marathon in 1979 while a college student and she won it again in 1983. She is the founder of the Beach to Beacon race.
She is one of the founders of the Donna Marathon which is how we met each other! The Donna Marathon supports families walking through a breast cancer diagnosis through the Donna Foundation and it supports ground breaking research.
What we talked about:
4:55- Joan’s involvement with the Donna Foundation
6:30- Beach to Beacon
9:10- Her involvement in the running community
11:05- Winning the Boston Marathon and seeing a change in women’s running
16:05- Her passion for running
19:35- Running with her daughter
20:35- Shifting out of her professional running career
22:45- The current state of women’s running
27:55- Her impact on the sport
29:45- What matters most to her in life
33:00- Not allowing pressure to steal your joy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so excited you are joining us today. |
| 0:26.5 | This podcast is part of the Sandy Boy Productions Podcast Network. |
| 0:30.1 | Learn more about all of our shows at sandyboyproductions.com. |
| 0:33.9 | I am really excited about this episode coming off the Donna Marathon weekend. |
| 0:38.9 | We had such a great weekend in Jacksonville, Florida and you're missing out if you don't come to that race every year. |
| 0:45.2 | I hope I'll see you there next year. |
| 0:47.2 | And one of the wonderful people that I get to spend time with every year that I'm down in Jacksonville |
| 0:53.3 | is Joan Benoit Samuelson. |
| 0:56.8 | An icon in our sport. |
| 0:58.8 | I've wanted to interview her for a while and this was the right time. |
| 1:04.3 | You know, I first had the opportunity to meet Joan in 2018 at this race and I wasn't ready for this interview. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know who I was kidding thinking I was but I wasn't and so I'm so excited |
| 1:15.7 | that we finally had the opportunity to record. |
| 1:18.6 | If you don't know who Joan Benoit Samuelson is, let me tell you, she is the champion from the first |
| 1:25.3 | women's Olympic marathon in 1984. |
| 1:28.9 | In that wild to think that that was the first year they have the marathon for women in the Olympics. |
| 1:34.5 | She was the champion. She won the gold medal. |
| 1:36.9 | She held the American record for 28 years in the marathon, |
| 1:40.5 | 221-21, which she ran in Chicago. |
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