Natasha Wodak recently broke the Candian Record in the marathon at the Berlin Marathon in 2:23:12. This was a 3 minute PR for her. Natasha is a two-time Olympian. She ran in the 10,000m in 2016 and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics she ran the marathon where she placed 13th. She is sponsored by Asics.
This conversation is really fun because we go all the way back to 2016-2017 and what was going on in her life and career at that point and how much has shifted and changed since then and what changes she has made to get to this point in her career. If you would have asked her in 2017 when we last talked, she wasn’t foreseeing the marathon being a part of her career.
What we talked about:
4:35- Natasha’s journey to becoming a marathoner
7:35- Her experience at the 2020 Olympics
9:40- Her race plan at the Olympics
11:30- Breaking the Canadian Record
17:30- Refinding the love of running
30:00- Her race at the Boston Marathon
38:05- Turning 40 and how she has changed her recovery in training
42:35- Recap of the Berlin Marathon
48:40- Natasha’s pacer at the Berlin Marathon
51:30- Her mentality in races
58:30- Emotions as she broke the Canadian Record
1:00:30- Race plans for the spring
1:05:20- End of podcast questions
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