#46: Sam Harrison's rapid rise to become an international runner

The England Athletics Podcast

Until a few years ago, running was something 27-year-old Sam Harrison did just for fun and to keep fit. After joining an athletics club for the first time in 2018, her tumbling times and the guidance of her coach Vince Wilson, encouraged her to take the sport more seriously. That resulted in a first Great Britain vest in 2020, before she made England Athletics' Commonwealth Games squad for the 10,000m last summer. The fact that Sam finished sixth was an incredible achievement. She tells host Alex Seftel that along the way, she has had to give up some of her social life, and balance training alongside a busy job in a dental practice. Photo: Sam Mellish / Team England