Mary McCarthy
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1,469 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Mary McCarthy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I trained with like a group of friends to do my first marathon.
And then I just kind of like, I guess I just fell into running the marathon because everyone that I was friends with at the time was like training for it.
And it was just like the next thing that our like social group was doing.
My dad ran.
So my dad was doing like... So I grew up swimming and then my dad was a runner.
Grew up swimming.
Yeah, you're going to notice a little hand movement.
With hands.
My dad did a half marathon and was like...
I obviously don't remember the conversation because I was eight, but he obviously was like, you should do the fun run.
So I did the fun run with him, which was probably a kilometre, came third and met Jessica Ennis.
And then the next weekend he was like, I think you should do the primary school cross country, proceeded to win by like five minutes or something.
And then I guess I just fell into it from that because he was like, oh, this is clearly something you're good at.
And then I literally never looked back, just ran for the rest of my life.
I think also because how many kids are training like five, six times a week in year three?
Because I was swimming so much.
So I probably had such a cardiovascular base that when I got put onto a cross-country field, I was just like...
Most of the people I know now, especially women that are pretty decent athletes, a lot of them have come from a background of swimming.
Because I think it sets you up for this like mindset and base that like carries you forward for so much.
Like when I was growing up, when I was a little bit older, like year five, year six, year seven, year eight, like I was racing cross country and I was like best in the county kind of level.
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