ANDI RIPLEY: Finding Beauty in the Pivot & Acceptance in Disappointment

Today you get to hear from Andi Ripley, a deep thinker with a beautiful heart. Andi approaches life's challenges with profound grace and resilience.

Starting her running journey at the young age of 8, Andi embarked on a competitive running career that carried her through college. After welcoming her first son, she embraced stroller running and unstructured training, making an impressive marathon debut with a time of 2:55—only to later discover she was pregnant. After the birth of her second son, she became coached by her husband, Zach, also an incredibly fast runner, and achieved a remarkable 2:43 Olympic Trials qualifying marathon time—with bilateral hip labrum tears.

Andi ran the Olympic Trials and then underwent surgeries for both hips but has battled injury ever since.

You might think she’d feel frustration over her untapped potential, but Andi chooses to view her challenges differently.

In this episode, Andi shares how she:

🌀Embraces the beauty of her need to pivot, shifting her focus from personal records to helping others find joy in movement through her coaching and support.

🌀How she navigated this transition, honing in on what she loves about running, and replicating it in other faces of life.

🌀Achieving “unhurried” healing.

Alongside her husband Zach, both Olympic Trials marathon qualifiers, Andi co-hosts The A to Z Running podcast, which I highly recommend.

RESOURCES:

AtoZRunning.com

@atozrunning

@andiripley

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