There is now a world famous picture of a woman slumped by a gatepost after giving everything to complete the Barclay Marathons.

Jasmine Paris finished the course in 59 hours, 58 minutes and 21 seconds to make her the first female finisher ever.

And now we get to talk to her on TRC meets, where we talk to inspirational runners doing amazing things.

Jasmine, what a few months you've had and thank you so much for coming and chatting to us.

Yeah, in this podcast we tried to get straight to the point.

So I'm going to ask you, what was the moment that you thought your life had changed?

I guess I didn't really think about it at the time, but, you know, I guess finishing it, really.

I think maybe before that, I'd contemplated that my life might change.

Afterwards, Gary Robbins said to me, you realize this is like your life will change from this day forward.

He actually said that to me.

And that's finishing the Barclay Marathons, right?

Yeah, for sure, yeah.

I mean, I don't even know where to start on that.

We know that a lot of our audience, some will be really familiar with the Barclay Marathons, some won't be.

There's five loops of, you know, roughly 20 miles. But also this wasn't your first attempt.

So you had completed loops previously. And this is the first time that you got all five in

within the time. And how aware were you of the cutoff time? I was really aware. I mean, that was

like a constant feature in my head all the way through the race from the very first moment. And

I was sort of timing. Thinking about what time I needed to get through those first three loops. I had it in my head all the way through the race from the very first moment and I was sort of timing

thinking about what time I needed to get through those first three loops I had it in my head that

was a target was about 32 hours to do the first three loops so that I would have maybe 14 hours to do

each of the last two and that worked out pretty pretty accurately actually but then on that final loop I was

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