I Fractured My Leg In The Olympics - Here’s Why I Finished | Rose Harvey

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Sports, Health & Fitness, Running, Fitness

9.7 • 254 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Running Channel Meets is where we talk to real runners with incredible stories. Each episode we speak with people who inspire us to run, and give our guests an opportunity to tell their stories, often for the first time.

In this episode we chat with Olympian Rose Harvey. Rose ran an outstanding PB of 2:23:21 at the 2023 Chicago Marathon – putting her fifth on the British all-time list – it meant the 31-year-old achieved the unfathomable and qualified to run the marathon for Team GB at her debut Olympic Games in Paris. 4 years prior to this Rose was a corporate lawyer, working late most nights and squeezing runs in when she could. So how does it feel to go from social runner to Olympian? And when you finally achieve the Olympic dream but injury strikes, how do you cope with race day? We ask Rose all of these questions in this episode, as well as asking her what’s next?

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0:00.0	This guest wasn't even a professional runner until after lockdown.
0:07.0	She was a lawyer.
0:09.0	Four years later, she was representing Great Britain at the Paris Olympics, unknowingly
0:14.0	with a broken leg.
0:15.0	This is TRC meets where we chat to inspirational runners with amazing stories,
0:19.0	and this time we are chatting to 223 marathoner and Olympian Rose Harvey.
0:28.2	Rose, your last four years look like this. Lawyer, lockdown, loan training, redundancy,
0:36.1	pro-athlete, Olympian, broken leg, marriage. That's a lifetime for most
0:40.9	people. It's been a big four years. Yeah, it's definitely been a well-win journey and it's
0:48.3	funny because in some ways, four years ago when I was working full-time and literally running to and from the office
0:55.0	literally seems like a lifetime ago. But at the same time, it's gone so quickly. And just,
1:00.5	it literally feels like I've been kind of living in this whirlwind journey. And it's all been so
1:05.4	exciting and so fun, but also pretty intense. And yeah, it's kind of this weird feeling of just that different life back then,
1:15.7	which also feels like two seconds ago.
1:17.6	So for people who don't know, you were a lawyer, then lockdown hit,
1:21.9	and then you transitioned from the outside world very seamlessly
1:25.8	into being this elite pro athlete.
1:27.9	How did that come about?
1:29.8	I wouldn't entirely say it's seamless.
1:32.3	I'm glad it appears that way.
1:34.5	So, yeah, I was a corporate lawyer and I got into running when I moved to London back in 2015.
1:42.0	I moved here for law school and I was basically really unfit and also
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