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Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson

Lucia Stafford | North American Indoor 1k Record Holder on Longevity with the Sport, Overcoming Graves' Disease, & Importance of Life Outside of Running

Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson

Emma Abrahamson

Running, Sports

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Emma is joined by Lucia Stafford, Canadian professional middle distance runner for Nike. She most recently ran a Canadian and North American record in the indoor 1000m with a 2:33.75! She talks about her upbringing as an Irish dancer, getting her start in running, dealing with Graves' disease, joining & leaving Bowerman, sticking with her same coach since she was 12, life outside of running and so much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up fellows welcome back to another episode of composite recall brew with me your host Emma Abrahamson

0:09.3

I've had the same intro for the longest time and I feel like I need to switch it up

0:13.6

I don't know. I'm feeling it literally since I think I first started this. I think the intro's been the exact same

0:18.4

So I guess I'll just use a different voice every time I start the episode

0:22.4

That might get annoying though anyways

0:24.7

Today's episode I'm super excited about I just finished recording some kind of buzzing off of it

0:29.6

Lucia Stafford. She's a Canadian middle-distance runner 81500

0:34.6

She just most recently this past weekend at BU ran the Canadian and then North American record in the 1k

0:40.2

It was 233 which is so fast. I don't understand how someone can run that fast in a 1k

0:45.5

But she did it in this episode we talked about so much from her

0:49.9

having graves disease and having to swallow a radioactive pill

0:53.8

um

0:54.6

To you know joining Bowerman and then leaving two months later and going back to her coach who she's had since she was 12

1:01.2

And just so much more like life outside of running so stay tuned for today's episode

1:05.7

Today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by none other than track club at lia

1:10.2

It's presented by the Pittsburgh track club and it's a new clothing brand that has modern and fun designs on lounge wear staples

1:16.2

I've talked a bit about it in the last couple episodes

1:18.8

But I'm seriously obsessed with their pieces you guys and they're not just for runners

1:22.8

They have cute illustration designs for throwers jumps multi events and more

1:27.0

The crew neck that I have is specifically for the heptathlon and I obviously do not do the heptathlon

1:32.6

But the design is so cute that I had to cop it and they update the shop with new items frequently

1:38.2

So like fans of the sport can express themselves

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