Rose Harvey: From the pub to the Olympics!
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Rose Harvey is one of British athletics' most extraordinary stories... a former corporate lawyer made redundant during Covid who took up marathon running seriously for the first time at 28. One decision made over a beer in the pub changed her life!
Within a year she had qualified for her first England team, became British Champion at the 2022 London Marathon, represented GB at the World Championships, and running 2:23:21 at Chicago in 2023 to put herself sixth on the British all-time list.
She then competed at the Paris Olympics with a stress fracture in her femur, finishing the race before scans revealed she'd run on a broken thigh bone.
Listen for an incredible story of transformation!
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| 1:12.6 | I actually signed up for my first marathon in the pub, as many people do. |
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