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Podcast: The Runners Reunion Podcast
Episode: This week’s episode features two time US Olympic marathoner Cathy O’Brien as we discuss her running, music and more.
Description: As a high energy 7th grader, Cathy O’Brien found herself on the Dover NH high cross-country team. Her coach predicted that Cathy would be “fantabulous” if she worked at her craft. Any running chronicle of the 80’s and 90’s shows she did. At 16 she ran the inaugural 1984 women’s Olympic marathon trials, and within months, closed out her high school career as a 5-time state cross-country, and Kinney national champion. Post high school adjustments followed, but Cathy was soon back on track, with refocused energy, validating earlier predictions by becoming a 1988 US Olympic marathoner at 20. Her career ascended, highlighted b...