I Hated Running, Now I Run Marathons - Anya Culling

The Not So Fit Couple Podcast

Ben Haldon & Lucy Davis

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Anya culling is a professional runner who initially ran a 4:36 marathon adn less than 18 months later ran a 2:30. This insane achievement isn't the most impressive thing about her, she is an incredibly kind person who is jumping on today to chat about accusations of doping, mental battles and how you can learn to run FAST.

Huge thanks to Anya for coming on the podcast today to chat about her incredible story.

Find more of Anya here: https://www.instagram.com/a.culling/?hl=en

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02:00 How did Anya get into Running?

04:45 First Marathon

06:34 Second marathon

10:30 To begin with Anya was running without gear

15:30 People don’t know athletes and Olympians, they know Instagram runners.

19:00 Do I want to be a runner or a social media runner?

22:20 Blood doping accusations

30:00 Balancing Weight Loss and Performance

38:30 Identity takes time to catch up with reality.

40:30 Sprint on Netflix

43:00 Are you living your dream?

48:30 Competing with Boys

51:00 5 Things you wish you knew about running.Anya culling is a professional runner who initially ran a 4:36 marathon adn less than 18 months later ran a 2:30. This insane achievement isn't the most impressive thing about her, she is an incredibly kind person who is jumping on today to chat about accusations of doping, mental battles and how you can learn to run FAST.

Huge thanks to Anya for coming on the podcast today to chat about her incredible story.

Find more of Anya here: https://www.instagram.com/a.culling/?hl=en

If you have any other questions for the next episode drop them in here: ngl.link/thenotsofitcouple1

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Code: NotSoFit for a special discount for podcast listeners!

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More Lucy Davis:

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02:00 How did Anya get into Running?

04:45 First Marathon

06:34 Second marathon

10:30 To begin with Anya was running without gear

15:30 People don’t know athletes and Olympians, they know Instagram runners.

19:00 Do I want to be a runner or a social media runner?

22:20 Blood doping accusations

30:00 Balancing Weight Loss and Performance

38:30 Identity takes time to catch up with reality.

40:30 Sprint on Netflix

43:00 Are you living your dream?

48:30 Competing with Boys

51:00 5 Things you wish you knew about running.

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0:57.6	So that was like mental and I came third in the British Championship race that year. There isn't
1:03.6	like a secret code to it. Like I didn't find a shortcut. I genuinely did just keep at it because I was
1:10.0	enjoying it so much.
1:11.7	I think if you ask any normal person or who the gold favourites are for the Olympics,
1:15.9	they wouldn't be able to tell you who it is, but they know who like the Instagram runners are.
1:19.9	And when you actually get into the elite space, it is really toxic.
1:23.9	There was this like rumor that went around that I was like doping when they heard my
1:29.1	progression. They were like, it's not physically possible. One guy who's actually well
1:33.5	respected in the running industry for God knows what reason. He made this like group chats and
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