68: Claudia Hollingsworth – This Is My Race Too
57 min
Claudia Hollingsworth returns to Run With It! When she first joined Elise, Claudia was 19 and fresh off her Olympic debut. Two years on, she’s got a Commonwealth Games bronze medal, a 3:58.09 1500m from a Thursday night at Box Hill, and a new thought when she lines up alongside the women she’s looked up to for years, "This is my race too." Claudia recaps the Commonwealth Games mile in Glasgow, from finding herself out wide at the bell to kicking her way onto an all-Australian podium with Abbey Caldwell and Jess Hull. She called that finish line embrace "the best hug of her life" after a tough Australian Championships. We also get into why she and coach Craig Mottram are making the 1500m her priority for LA 2028, how she’s building up to 120-plus kilometre weeks while keeping her 800m speed, and what clicked when she took on Georgia Hunter Bell at the Maurie Plant Meet earlier this year. If you like this conversation, you can go back to episode 13 to hear more from Claudia. What a star she is! -- This episode is brought to you by Shokz, the leading brand in open-ear headphones. Check out their Black Friday offers now using this link for 25% off the OpenRun Pro 2 and 31% off the OpenRun. Enter code RUNWITHIT for an additional $15 off. -- Run With It acknowledges the Wadawurrung People, the Traditional Owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded, and pays our respects to Elders past and present. -- Subscribe to Run With It wherever you get your podcasts, so you don’t miss a thing! -- Follow us on Instagram: @runwithit.pod @claudiahollingsworth_ @elisebeacom -- Intro/outro music by Dan Beacom Graphic design by Kate Scheer