Young Hearts Run Free Podcast31 Jan 2025

Lucy Gossage Winter Spine Race 2025 Winner - Young Hearts Run Free Podcast - Season 12 Eps 11

It would be amiss of us as part of our Winter Spine mop up not have a debrief with one of the winners, right?

Step forward Lucy Gossage to fulfil that role. The ex pro triathlete and now (accidental) runner took the win after the toughing it out on the famed 268 mile race up the Pennine Way.

We're mighty chuffed to hear her tell her tale of triumph through adversity as she nailed the race of her life at her 2nd attempt at the Spine, after all 2024 is so last year.

Lucy picks up her tale of finding running during the covid pandemic, at a time when the world was a strange place and, for her personally, the end of a magnificent career in triathlon was drawing to a close.

We're astounded to hear how much she's managed to raise for her charity Move Against Cancer and find out more about some of the magnificent work being undertaken to promote physical activity.

Of course the 2025 Spine Race is the headline act and Lucy regales her journey through training, to the start line in Edale and on to a victorious conclusion in Kirk Yetholm.

She's candid and open of the role personal heartache and betrayal played, on closing that chapter she's already started an exciting new one that she is evidently buzzing about.

It's a terrific insight into the mind and motivation of an elite athlete who is so in touch with her own mindset. A story of transferring strength and resilience built through years of triathlon racing and applying it to a new discipline, just so happens that discipline is ultra marathoning.

And aren't we the lucky benefactors of welcoming such prowess to the wonderful running community.

Now, go get your lugs around this cracker, it does not disappoint.

Find out more and make a donation to Lucy's charity MOVE AGAINST CANCER here

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