Firsts, Favourites, and Figuring out My Fretting with Laurie Hunt

Laurie was a one time chubby smoking party girl who found running and in the intervening 30 years has run 19 marathons, completed 2 half ironman 70.3 races and a 55km mountain race in Nepal along with hundreds of other races. Laurie attributes much of her success in her work and in life to all the lessons she’s learned along the many miles of road, instilling the belief that anything is possible. She likes to quote her early marathon coach Michael Brennan who always said, "it’s who you become on the journey to your accomplishments that matters".

I love Laurie. :) She's one of my closest running friends, my mentor, and someone who inspires me to dream big and believe in staying curious! This conversation with Laurie was sooo fun that I've split it into 2 episodes! In this first part, we chat about how we met, how running has changed us, our experience together when Laurie crewed me on my "Big Dance" last fall, and Laurie starts to help me look at how I tend to fret.

Find out more about Laurie here:

https://www.lauriehunt.com/