When a Run is Not Just a Run: Olympian Sarah Attar
She Explores
Gale Straub
4.6 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of She Explorers is brought to you by Vask, whose footwear has delivered |
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| 0:36.6 | I'm Gail Strawb and you're listening to She Explores. |
| 0:40.4 | You finish that workout and that is part of you forever. You know you put in the work and it is there. I think there's a lot of power to that because you know it's within you. |
| 0:49.0 | Even the same with like the backpacking trip or long hikes people do I feel like there's such |
| 0:55.4 | beauty and power to that because it's forever part of you. |
| 1:00.8 | This is Sarah Tar. Sarah is a professional runner with a unique background. In 2012, she was one of two women to represent Saudi Arabia in the Olympic Games in London. It was the first time all countries had feminine representation. |
| 1:15.4 | While Sarah was born in the US, her father is Saudi, and when the opportunity arose to run the |
| 1:21.3 | 800 meter in the Olympics, Sarah took it even though |
| 1:24.5 | she wasn't able to run a qualifying time. It wasn't required. She's since |
| 1:29.7 | represented Saudi Arabia again in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. |
| 1:34.0 | In this episode, we talk about why Sarah decided to run, |
| 1:38.0 | but we also talk about why, for Sarah, |
| 1:41.0 | a run is not just a run Ron and a backpacking trip is not just a |
| 1:45.8 | backpacking trip. You may notice that Sarah repeats certain words, words like |
| 1:50.9 | access or tap into, powerful and beautiful. |
| 1:55.0 | It becomes evident that for Sarah, everything is connected and the key is to tap into yourself |
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