Women's Running Stories

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  • Women's Running Stories features inspiring stories told by exceptional women runners about their running experiences. Hear about the many ways women are achieving excellence and changing their lives through the sport of running. Get motivated to reach your own running goals by women who are making it happen.
    2022-23 Women's Running Stories
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Episodes
  • Podcast Spotlight: Starting Line 1928: Cheryl Toussaint

    Podcast Spotlight: Starting Line 1928: Cheryl Toussaint
    Nov 26 2024
    This week Women's Running Stories is taking a break and bringing you an episode of Starting Line 1928. This is outstanding podcast features in-depth interviews with women running pioneers. The episode I chose features Cheryl Toussaint, the meet director of the Colgate Women’s Games and an Olympic silver medalist. Toussaint grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and began running with the Atoms Track Club at age 13. There, Coach Fred Thompson nurtured her athletic talent—and encouraged her academically. Cheryl earned an academic scholarship to New York University and kept training with the Atoms, eventually making the Olympics in 1972; she competed in Munich in the 800 meters and 4x400 relay, where she helped the team make the final—and eventually, win silver—despite losing a shoe. She also began assisting Thompson with his other venture, the Colgate Women’s Games, and took over as meet director when he retired in 2014. It’s the longest running track and field series for girls and young women in the United States, open to all young women from elementary school through college and beyond, and has launched the careers of many other Olympians and successful women in other fields. Starting Line 1928 is an oral history project dedicated to preserving the stories of women pioneers in distance running. The project spans the 20th century, chronicling the individuals who paved the way for a post-Title IX world. Guests have included Olympians, steeplechase pioneers, ultrarunning champions, coaches, and those who fought hard for women to have new opportunities in the sport. Starting Line 1928 was founded in 2020 by Cindy Kuzma, Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka, Freddi Carlip, and Johanna Gretschel and is supported by the Theodore Corbitt Institute for Running History Research. Learn More about Starting Line 1928 StartingLine1928.com Instagram @startingline1928 Twitter @startline1928 Email: startingline1928@gmail.com Learn More about the Colgate Women's Games Website: colgatewomensgames.com Listen to the Live Episode featuring the Native Women Run team and NWR Founder Verna Volker womensrunningstories.com/live-event-native-women-run-team-at-the-2024-chicago-marathon-expo
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Grace Norman: Her Gold Medal Return Paralympic Journey

    Grace Norman: Her Gold Medal Return Paralympic Journey
    Nov 19 2024
    Grace Norman is a four-time paralympic medalist, once in track and field and three times in the sport of paratriathlon. She is also, as of October 2024, a five-time world Paratriathlon champion. This episode focuses on Norman's Paralympic journey which spans Rio, Tokyo, and this year's 2024 Paralympics in Paris. For over a decade now, Norman's primary focus has been Paratriathlon, but before that, she was a competitive runner, and running is at the foundation of Grace's athletic life: she ran track and cross country in high school and college, racing able-bodied competitors. Grace was born with Congenital Constriction Band Syndrome, which resulted in the amputation of her left leg below the knee and her right big toe when she was young. Norman runs and races with a prosthetic. Norman started racing Paratriathlon in her teens, and made her Paralympic debut in Rio, the same year Paratriathlon debuted at the Games. There, Norman surprised everyone, herself included, by winning gold. Since then, Paratriathlon has continued to grow and the competition has intensified, and in turn, Norman has continued to develop as a world-class competitor. Starting with those Rio games when Norman was just graduating high school and heading into college through her collegiate years, which led to Tokyo, until now as a full-time professional athlete. Over the past several years, Norman has been the athlete to beat in Paratriathlon, but it did take some time for that consistency to set in. She's gone through the highs of being the young, talented newcomer in Rio, to a time of learning and growth heading into the Tokyo Paralympics, where she and her coach had very high confidence that a repeat gold medal performance was within her abilities. And it probably was; Norman was certainly prepared to give her all in Tokyo. What happened in Tokyo inspired Norman to double down on her preparation for Paris. In this story, Norman shares the whole journey, including the unwavering determination and dedication she carried all the way through the finish line at this past summer's 2024 Paralympic Games. Keep Up with Grace Norman Instagram: @gracenormantri Support Our Supporters Lagoon Pillows: lagoonsleep.com/WRS Use the discount code WRS to receive $25 off any pillow! Through Dec. 2, 2024 YMR Track Club: ymrtrackclub.com Use the discount code WRS20 for 20% off your purchase To support WRS, please rate and review the show iTunes/Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-running-stories/id1495427631 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8Hr2RysbV4fdwNhiMAXc?si=1c5e18155b4b44fa Music Credits Cormac O'Regan, of Playtoh Coma-Media, via Pixabay RomanBelov, via Pixabay SergePavkinMusic, via Pixabay Grand Project, via Pixabay Rockot, via Pixabay Ways to Connect and Engage with Women's Running Stories Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project Instagram: @over50sub20_5k_project WRS Instagram: @womensrunningstories Facebook: facebook.com/WomensRunningStories Website: womensrunningstories.com Email host Cherie: clouiseturner@gmail.com Women's Running Stories is a proud member of the Evergreen network: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/
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    39 mins
  • Race Report: Emily Venters + 2024 USATF 5k National Championships

    Race Report: Emily Venters + 2024 USATF 5k National Championships
    Nov 13 2024
    Professional runner for Nike Emily Venters shares how it all went down at the 2024 USATF 5k National Championships, held Nov. 2 in New York City, as part of the New York City Marathon weekend of events. Venters shares how she has overcome mental and emotional challenges to return to a state of health, and deliver an outstanding performance at this strongly contested race. In NYC, Venters earned her first podium spot as a professional runner at a national championship event. Venters's recent challenges come on the heels of a bumpy but ultimately successful college career; her collegiate results were so outstanding in fact that she signed her pro contract upon graduation last year, in 2023. But the pro life came with its share of anxieties and then depression. Having come out the other side of a dark time, Venters was ready to give her all come race day. In this episode, Venters gets into the whole journey, including some exciting new plans. This episode is part of the WRS Race Report series. Each episode features a top 10 performer sharing her experience at one of the USATF Road Circuit series of races. And because a race is never just about what happens on race day, you will get to know a little bit more about each one of the runners featured and how this race figures into their larger running story. The USATF Running Circuit championship series of races happen throughout the US all year long. Each race serves as a national championship for the distance or the type of race being run. The 5k National Championships was last race of the 2024 series. WRS will be back next year, covering the 2025 series. The action kicks off Jan. 11 in Lubbock, TX, with the USATF Cross Country National Championships. You can catch up on all the Race Reports on our website or on your favorite podcast app. Keep Up with Emily Venters Instagram: @ventersemily Photo Credits Guilherme Guedes Instagram: @guico.guedes Previous Women's Running Stories Race Report Episodes: https://womensrunningstories.com/podcast/women-running-stories Support Our Supporters YMR Track Club: ymrtrackclub.com Use the discount code WRS20 for 20% off your purchase Lagoon Pillows: lagoonsleep.com/WRS15 Use the discount code WRS15 for 15% off your first order To support WRS, please rate and review the show iTunes/Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-running-stories/id1495427631 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8Hr2RysbV4fdwNhiMAXc?si=1c5e18155b4b44fa Music Credits Cormac O'Regan, of Playtoh RomanBelov, via Pixabay Coma-Media, via Pixabay RoyaltyFreeMusic, via Pixabay Grand Project, via Pixabay Ways to Connect and Engage with Women's Running Stories Instagram: @womensrunningstories Instagram: @over50sub20_5k_project Facebook: facebook.com/WomensRunningStories Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/444164966663627 Website: womensrunningstories.com Email host Cherie: clouiseturner@gmail.com Women's Running Stories is a proud member of the Evergreen network: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/
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    30 mins

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