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Marathon Madness (The Rosie Ruiz Story)

Hall of Shame

Rachel Bonnetta

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Rachel tells a sordid tale of sweat, lies, and public transportation. Rosie Ruiz bolted out of obscurity and into infamy after being the first woman to cross the finish line at the 1980 Boston Marathon, beating her own best time by 25 minutes. How’d she do it? We’ll tell you, if you promise not to skip to the end.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm Rachel and I'm Rechna and this is Hall of Shame.

0:09.6

Today, I have a story about running.

0:15.6

Marathon running.

0:16.6

Have you ever gotten into running before?

0:18.9

I had to like always run for sports.

0:21.7

Yeah.

0:22.7

Not to brag, but I played sports.

0:24.7

School and even one sport in college.

0:27.6

So I played college sports too.

0:30.3

What did you play?

0:31.3

I played field hockey in college.

0:32.5

Oh, okay.

0:33.5

I played volleyball.

0:34.5

Oh, look at us.

0:35.5

Look at us.

0:36.5

Telling us sports podcasts and we also play.

0:38.5

We heartache.

0:39.5

No, we're not.

0:40.5

The longest I've ever run is seven miles.

0:43.7

That's pretty far.

0:44.7

Yeah.

0:45.7

And I used to, so I went to Wellesley and it's the halfway point of the Boston Marathon.

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