Measuring Success As A Runner with Kate Pallardy
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Kate reached a do or die moment, her senior year of college, a moment where she either made a drastic change or let her spirit wither away.
The 2 words that kept repeating were CHANGE and RUN. So with the need to feel powerful and the thrill to seek adventure and new roads, she signed up for a 50-mile race… her first ever running race with only 3 cold Chicago months to take her non-running self across the finish line of a grueling footrace in the backwoods of Pekin, Illinois (McNaughton Trail 50-miler 2007). That singular 50-mile race changed the course of her life forever!
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I should have went right back to running after I'm my son, but I had some unfinished business in triathlon. |
| 0:12.0 | I felt like I hadn't been as much of a professional |
| 0:16.0 | as I wanted. I felt like I wasn't able to make as much money or a living from it. So I thought, |
| 0:22.4 | oh, I got it. I got to make it work. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach and host for the Run |
| 0:51.6 | to the Top podcast. |
| 0:53.9 | What does it take to be a successful runner? |
| 0:57.0 | Our guest today is Kate Pallardy. |
| 0:59.6 | Recent finisher at the Boston Marathon |
| 1:01.7 | was a time of 23827, good enough for 22nd female |
| 1:06.8 | finisher of the entire field of more than 26,000 participants. Kate is not a professional athlete anymore, but she is certainly darn fast. |
| 1:17.0 | Kate has been a pro triathlete in the past and has also done really well in ultra races. |
| 1:22.0 | How does she measure success as a runner? and has also done really well in ultra races. |
| 1:22.9 | How does she measure success as a runner |
| 1:25.0 | when family, business, and a high running bar |
| 1:28.2 | are all part of her values? |
| 1:30.0 | Stay with us to hear her story, |
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