#123: Ultrarunning Mother—and Daughter
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Buckle up: Dimity and Sarah cover a lot of ground in this podcast, starting with a half-marathon race recap by SBS, and some thoughts from Dimity about her rapidly approaching Pikes Peak Ascent. The ladies are joined by Pam Smith, M.D., a pathologist, mother of two, and kickass ultramarathoner. Pam has them hanging on every word as she tells how she went from being the fourth-to-last finisher in the 2012 Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run to winning the prestigious ultra the very next year. (!!!) Yet it’s refreshing to hear Pam admit, “there’s gotta be some peer pressure to do burpees.” Pam also tells the tale of how she and her 9-year-old daughter completed a 24-hour race around a 1-mile loop; with plenty...
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| 0:48.0 | welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah and Portland. This is |
| 0:54.7 | Dimity in Denver where we were enjoying a summer like none other. I mean it was |
| 0:59.7 | cool, it was rainy, it was like awesome and then all of a sudden we're back to like it's 90 degrees at |
| 1:05.9 | 730 at night and it's just killing me. Oh that's because you have a race going up. |
| 1:11.0 | Well I do I do but I mean I just I got to say like the dog days of |
| 1:14.8 | summer I mean so many ways August I mean Adrian Martini wrote a great post about |
| 1:19.2 | August and then Anne Lamont I saw her writing something on Facebook where, you know, God was laughing |
| 1:25.0 | when he created the month of August and snakes. |
| 1:28.4 | So just all this like stuff, I just think August is like, I mean, if we got rid of of August it would have to be another month |
| 1:34.7 | that we want to get rid of so we could just keep it as a placeholder as like the |
| 1:38.2 | crappy hot you know kind of stagnant month that it is. |
| 1:51.0 | Because you had, well, so to add, I mean, not to, you know, lump you into this, but you ran a half marathon last week and it wasn't your best race ever, was it? No, it wasn't. It was hot and I'm not going to blame I'm not |
| 1:53.6 | going to blame it all in the weather no it was no it was my slowest non-run |
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