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Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

Find What You Love and Work for it- Chiara Gandolfi

Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog

Running, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.5936 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Will you help me give a wedding present today?

My guest didn't start out as a runner, in fact, she did not start running until one year ago.

Chiara was a springboard diver who was inspired to run by the most powerful force of all: love!

As new runners, we all know how magical that first run can be, but today's episode is truly for the romantic runner.

Chiara shares one of the most romantic relationship stories I have ever heard about how her fiancé Francesco inspired her to become a better runner and a better woman.

She's discovered a whole new world of health and fitness that would not have been possible if she and Francesco had never met, and she shares with us how a new perspective on running can inspire change in your whole life.

Here are some of the topics we'll discuss today:

How running compares to other niche sports
How feelings for a significant other can inspire your perspectives on health and exercise
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natural, especially if it's your partner to be able to allow them to see you when you're raw.

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When there's no frills, when you're not in a pretty package because you know well on the one hand you

0:16.8

know whether you whether they like you as you are really even I wouldn't say at your worst because

0:28.0

sweaty is not the worst you can be for sure but that is one thing and the other thing is that people

0:40.1

are much more accepting than we think they are.

0:44.0

Welcome to the Runners Connect, run to the top podcast, where it's all about learning

0:52.3

from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport.

0:56.0

So together we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community.

1:01.0

Now, here's your host, Tina Muir.

1:07.0

Hello, this is Tina Muir.

1:09.0

Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Run to the Top Podcast brought to you by Rums Connect.

1:15.4

I want to thank you for joining me today and I have a heartwarming unique episode for you

1:21.4

that I know you're just going to love, especially if you're a romantic at heart,

1:25.3

or if you know the true beauty that running brings into our world.

1:29.8

So last week we talked to Chris Hoiseler, who is also known as the Ryan Conceage, and he helped

1:36.2

us all to kind of believe in ourselves and he just had some really inspiring words to live by.

1:41.4

So if you missed that one, make sure you check it out.

1:43.2

Today you are going to help me give a wedding gift.

1:46.8

Kiara has been running just over a year and she took it up because she saw some wonderful traits in her then boyfriend who just made her

1:56.9

know he was the one for her from the very first day they met. Running was a part

2:01.8

of the reason she knew he was the one and she reached out to me to ask me if I could help her give a wedding gift to her fiance by sharing her running journey, especially as running with the two things he loved the most.

2:16.0

Now being the softy I am, this immediately caught my attention and today you are going to get to hear this story too. So if you're a new runner, this will be a fantastic

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