This week’s episode is a sprint—a short story—about how a chance meeting kicked off one woman’s incredible running career. But between that first surprise encounter and this runner’s eventual success, so many surprising things happen. There’s hate mail and poetry and a run in with a famous runner and a national movement. If there is a typical athlete coming into her own story, this is not it. This is the story of Katy Schilly.

Episode Credits:

Host: Rachel Swaby

Producers: Danielle Thomsen, Rachel Swaby

Production help: Mervyn Degaños

Theme music: Danny Cocke

Human Race editor-in-chief: David Willey

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