Malindi Elmore roars back into record books, ten years later Player's Own Voice

Malindi Elmore is either Canada's greatest gift to mature athletes, or she's yet another taunting for every runner who is racing the calendar more than the clock. In January of this year, the now 40 year-old mother of two shattered the Canadian Marathon record, running 2:24:50 in Houston. While endurance running fans were letting that sink in, even more amazing facts emerged. This was only the second marathon Elmore had ever run. An even more unlikely detail: she was done with running, burned out, disillusioned, finished, fully ten years earlier. So how does a decade-retired middle distance runner smash a national endurance record? On Player's Own Voice podcast today, Elmore says the secret was in really truly no longer caring about the results. As soon as she started running for her own pleasure, on her own program, with her own young family in the mix, her times started to plummet. She's qualified for the Tokyo Olympics now too, sixteen years after she competed in the 1500m in Athens.