#112: When To Stop Training for a Race
Another Mother Runner
Sarah Bowen Shea
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Sometimes training is the easy route: Dimity opens up about her decision to stop swimming-biking-and-running in her pursuit of Ironman 70.3 Boulder triathlon. From that bold decision springs a conversation between Dimity and Sarah about the reasons why to stop training for a race, including injury, time constraints, and lack of enthusiasm. They sprinkle in […]
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| 0:19.0 | Use offer code AMR at checkout for 50% off your first month of vitamins. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah in Portland. |
| 0:37.0 | And this is Dimmity in Denver and thankfully I'm not sleepless or lost in Seattle anymore, right, Sarah? |
| 0:43.2 | Oh, we were a little bit lost in Seattle recently, weren't we? |
| 0:47.0 | On your birthday. |
| 0:49.0 | On my birthday, so here was a story. |
| 0:51.2 | I was supposed to go out for a four mile run that was on my training plan. |
| 0:55.0 | And Sarah was like, well, Lake Union, it's a perfect 10K, you know, and I'm like fine, 2.2 miles more, you know, at a leisurely pace, that's totally fine. |
| 1:05.9 | How far do we end up running? Oh, that would be a little over eight miles, I think. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, I think it was actually a little under but close enough it was eight miles which again from |
| 1:15.6 | 6.2 to 8 well it's a pretty big jump actually I feel like but yeah it was kind of |
| 1:22.4 | funny so I mean why don't you set it up a little bit, Sarah? |
| 1:25.0 | So we were, so Dimmity and I were in Seattle because we were speaking at a running day event at REI at the request of one of our marketing partners, noon, |
| 1:36.4 | electrolyte hydration tablets. |
| 1:38.6 | So I drove up there and Dimmity flew there and I, having been to Seattle several times just I adore running in that city |
| 1:46.5 | it's just there's trails everywhere pave trails and it's just tons of water |
| 1:51.8 | and great vistas and it's a very running friendly |
| 1:54.8 | bike-friendly town as well and so I knew that I want to we were only going to be |
| 1:59.4 | there for like 24 hours or less and I knew I wanted to optimize my running opportunities there. |
| 2:05.0 | So I drove up and ran, gosh I guess I ran 10 miles on Friday evening when we got up there, when I got up there. |
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