43: Caster Semenya, Race Prep Psychology, Racing After Injury, Late-Night Baby Duties
Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas
Jesse Thomas
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Spring training is ramping up, and Lauren is riding high from recent workouts with her athletes. Meanwhile, Jesse wonders whether he set a world record for fastest 5K on crutches. This week, Jesse and Lauren discuss gender in sport, and the challenges that DSD athletes face in light of the recent the Caster Semenya case. They share how they mentally prepare for races, and talk about wisdom from coaches throughout their careers. Lauren talks about racing after injury, and how she worked with Mel Lawrence to recover from a string of injuries and come back to set a 5K PR at Payton Jordan 2019. They also dig in to who does what when it comes to late-night baby duties.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:05.0 | Wow, you added like an extra sound there. |
| 0:10.0 | A weird one. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Work Play Love podcast. We are back in our little room that we |
| 0:17.8 | record these things in and I'll tell you what I can smell all kinds of garlic up in here because Lauren just mowed down and maybe one of the biggest bagels I've ever seen in my life. |
| 0:31.5 | It was covered in cream life. It was covered in |
| 0:33.0 | in garlic. And then she had to come over my shoulder and look at the |
| 0:39.2 | script or the questions for today and it was very hard to think about anything besides. |
| 0:47.0 | I could actually hear him holding the garlic. |
| 0:50.0 | And I just kind of decided to stay right next to him, see how long he could hold his breath. |
| 0:55.0 | This is, so I'm Jesse Thomas. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Lauren Fleshman, we're married. |
| 1:00.0 | Yep, and we're married, so that's why we put up with this type of stuff and this is the |
| 1:05.0 | work play love podcast we answer your questions about sport family and business |
| 1:10.8 | and the |
| 1:15.0 | business and the intersection between all three. Yep, and we balance and unbalance them. |
| 1:17.0 | That's what we do. |
| 1:18.0 | Today we have questions around the Kaster Semenya issue issue which I don't which I don't think is fair to call just the |
| 1:27.3 | castor semania issue yes d athletes competing in women's sports but clearly this is a hot topic right now because of the |
| 1:34.4 | cast or some men you're ruling. We will talk about psychological prep for |
| 1:39.6 | racing returning to racing after a series of injuries we had a question about |
| 1:43.7 | Mel that I thought would be very interesting for you to talk about cool and |
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