#136: Down Size with Best-selling Author Ted Spiker
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As part of the AMR Running and Reading Club, Dimity and Sarah welcome Ted Spiker, a father runner and author of Down Size: 12 Truths for Turning Pants-Splitting Frustration into Pants-Fitting Success. Known also as the guy behind the Big Guy Blog for Runner’s World website, Ted has gone through numerous ups and downs with his weight, even while training for marathons and an Ironman triathlon. Ted talks about why it’s so important to value successes instead of focusing on mistakes, whether it’s in the pursuit of a race starting line or weight-loss goal. Find out why he thinks exercise and eating are exact opposites. The trio discusses chocolate chips and bond over
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| 0:54.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah in Portland. And this is Dibody in Denver. Can you hear that Sarah? Oh yeah that that's tied to some |
| 1:00.7 | painful news that you shared with the tribe this week so want you to |
| 1:04.7 | tell us a little bit more about what's making that sound Dimmity. Yeah I'm not at a |
| 1:08.1 | hodown I do I do want to learn how to play the banjo one day. But yeah, I've had a foot issue and it's not even, |
| 1:15.8 | it's really so boring to talk about, |
| 1:18.1 | but just know that it's been, just, |
| 1:21.0 | it's made, it's been very agonizing. |
| 1:24.6 | I have a what's called a planter plate sprain, |
| 1:28.9 | maybe a tear, it's hard to know. |
| 1:31.9 | Under the ball of my right foot, which is my nemesis. It came up in |
| 1:36.7 | San Diego and I've been hiding it. I've been like doing a little secret service action with it for about three four weeks now and |
| 1:48.9 | because I was my intent to get better and run with Kelly in Philadelphia for our 26 Strong program. |
| 1:56.0 | And I really can't tell you how much I really wanted to do that. |
| 2:00.4 | And I really thought that I could do that if I took care of myself and it's just not healing the way that it needs to. |
| 2:08.0 | So I'm out and I'm back in my |
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