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She Explores

When a Run is Not Just a Run: Olympian Sarah Attar

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6914 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Attar, the first female runner to represent Saudi Arabia in the Olympics, believes in the intimacy of learning a landscape on your own two feet. We talk with Sarah about the inspiration she finds in the mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, the power of tuning in to your speaking voice, and the recognition that every hill you climb and every accomplishment you make becomes a part of you.

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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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