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Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine.

I'm your host, Lindsay.

Thank you so much for joining today.

I am super excited about this interview.

Recently, I had the opportunity to emce the Big Sur International Marathon.

And as I was looking through the leaderboard, I saw the name Serena

Berla. And I thought, I know that name. And come to find out that Serena, who is a retired

professional runner, she was running the race. And so she won the race in 249. And we got to do a fun

post-race interview. And now, two weeks after the race, we sat down for an

hour-long conversation about, well, first of all, her experience at the Big Sur Marathon, what that's

like running and racing a marathon post-retirement. Because she ran 249, like she was working hard.

It's just a different kind of race than when she was running

professionally. Serena is a 226 marathoner. She's represented Team USA multiple times. She competed in the

2017 World Championships in London. She ran her 226 in Osaka in 2017. She also represented Team USA in 2015 in 2009. She ran

collegiately for the University of Missouri Columbia. And Serena is also a cancer survivor. In 2010,

she was diagnosed with a rare cancer, a rare sarcoma in her leg,

and then she recovered from that. Her doctor saved her leg, and she went on to run those

very fast times, compete on world teams again, and then in 2017, she was diagnosed with a

reoccurrence of that cancer. She ran the 2018 Boston Marathon a year later, the year that we all know about the

torrential downpour at that Boston Marathon.

And then she retired.

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