RERUN of Episode 17 with Eileen Poore

<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/leenie353/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eileen Poore</a> and I had been friends over Instagram DMs for a while before this recording — this was actually the first time we ever met in person. </p><p>This rerun comes to you on July 17th — the same date that, back in 2021, she lined up for the <a href="https://www.8hourdream.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">8 Hour Endurance</a> race just three days after her criminal case closed, and ran the farthest she ever had. This episode discusses sexual assault.</p><p>During this episode, sponsored by <a href="https://goodr.com/ALLYB" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Goodr</a> and <a href="https://huug.com/?ref=ALLYB" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HUUG</a>, we talk about:</p><ul><li>Growing up in New Orleans and starting work at the legendary Brennan's Restaurant at age 15</li><li>Her mom contracting polio as an infant on a transatlantic crossing, being paralyzed from the neck down, and regaining partial mobility after a pilgrimage to Lourdes</li><li>Growing up with an alcoholic, addict father (16 years sober now) and using running as a way to "escape the shit"</li><li>Being a competitive junior Olympic diver long before she was ever a runner</li><li>Moving to Indianapolis after Michigan State and meeting her husband Dave at Lockerbie Pub</li><li>Hurricane Katrina destroying her family's home in 2005 and pushing her to run her first marathon, Columbus, in 2006 — with two stress fractures and, unknowingly, in early pregnancy</li><li>Nursing her newborn son between the start and finish of the Indianapolis Half a few months after he was born</li><li>Running a <a href="https://runragnar.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ragnar</a> relay from Prescott to Tempe in the middle of a bankruptcy and a housing crisis</li><li>Qualifying for and running her first Boston Marathon in 2011 while training on treadmills between two toddlers in daycare</li><li>Missing a Boston cutoff by exactly 17 seconds</li><li>Her first ultra, the <a href="https://www.dwdgnawbone.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gnaw Bone 50K</a>, run with one gel and no drop bag</li><li>2018, her "banner year" — a marathon PR, a new job, a new house, and qualifying for Boston 2019</li><li>Being raped by her Uber driver in July 2019, and the hours that followed at the hospital</li><li>The forensic nurse and the <a href="https://www.juliancenter.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Julian Center</a> advocate who helped her survive the first year afterward</li><li>Running the Indianapolis <a href="https://monumentalmarathon.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monumental Marathon</a> weeks later in the sweats she was released from the hospital in, dropping "I forgive you" index cards along the course</li><li>The multi-year criminal process — the DNA warrant, the arrest, three different prosecutors, and reading her victim impact statement on her own birthday</li><li>Running <a href="https://www.8hourdream.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">8 Hour Endurance</a> three days after her case closed and covering 32.17 miles, the farthest she had ever run</li><li>Returning to Boston in 2022 and what it meant to cross that finish line</li></ul><ul><li>Training with <a href="http://matt-ebersole.squarespace.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PBT</a> under coach Matt Ebersole, and running the <a href="https://www.dinoseries.com/tecumseh-trail-marathon" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tecumseh Trail Half</a> along the way</li></ul><ul><li>Her message to anyone in a hard season: "you just have to hold on"</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Previous Guests Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-89-lets-find-your-limits/id1681291349?i=1000682515914" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt