Genevieve Gregson (LaCaze): Use Those Opportunities to Make You Better- R4R 298
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Genevieve Gregson’s 32nd birthday should have been something to celebrate. The three-time Olympic and two-time World Championship finalist was competing in the 300m steeplechase at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the event for which she held the Australian record. But coming off the final water jump, she fell when her right Achilles tendon snapped and she was unable to finish the race. She and Tina talk about her journey to that point and her plans for the future, including the most exciting one - the birth of her first child, due in just a few weeks.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people, whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the |
| 0:26.1 | rest of the world still sleeps, or befriending the strangers next to you at the |
| 0:29.8 | start line of a race. We are here to connect with others who see running as the |
| 0:34.4 | common thread that weaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with |
| 0:39.5 | people from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello my friends, welcome to episode 298 of the Running for Real podcast. We are getting |
| 0:54.5 | so close to 300 and I do have a special one for you. She's actually not a runner but she has |
| 1:00.9 | been very high up on my all-time list. I reached out to her about four years ago the first time |
| 1:09.0 | and finally she's come back and said yes and I'm very excited to tell you who that isn't just |
| 1:16.5 | a few weeks but you are going to have to wait but today we have someone who have also wanted |
| 1:20.6 | for quite a long time, someone who has really I've known her for many years. She's been a key player |
| 1:29.7 | in the changing of the running world and just particularly when it comes to steeple chase and just |
| 1:35.8 | what is possible there. She's been someone to admire. I've always loved her honesty and authenticity |
| 1:41.4 | so as you can tell she would fit in here perfectly and I'm very excited for us to welcome |
| 1:47.0 | Genevieve Greggson aka Genevieve Lakaze which is what you may have known of her for many years |
| 1:52.6 | before she got married. Now Genevieve is a three-time Olympic finalist, a two-time world champ's |
| 1:58.3 | finalist and an Australian record holder. She has been running for many years now and today is |
| 2:06.1 | an episode where we dive into not so much those accolades and true running for real style. We are |
| 2:11.2 | going deeper into the tougher parts of her of her life as a runner including the fact that she |
| 2:18.7 | ruptured her Achilles during the Olympic final on the final barrier in 2021 for the Tokyo Olympics. |
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