#140: When and How to Hire a Coach
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2014
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Coaches aren’t just for top-tier athletes: Dimity and Sarah are joined by two running coaches who talk about how a pro can get any runner or triathlete to her very best. First up: Angela Bekkala. This mother of twins and running coach in New Hampshire describes a coach as a neutral party who can help you discover your potential and prevent injury—two worthy goals in the mother runner playbook. She also talks about, “the power of trying,” and how a coach addresses the brain plus the body. Next, Briana Boehmer, the coach who guided Dimity to her Ironman success and Sarah to her recent Boston-qualifying marathon finish, describes how a coach makes good decisions for you and opens your eyes to what you can do. She sagely labels a...
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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 | This is Dibity in Denver on very shaky quads. |
| 0:40.6 | Sarah, don't even try to touch my thighs right now because it might just melt into a |
| 0:46.3 | puddle on the floor. Oh, no, why is this? Why is this? Well, so I'm slowly getting back. I'm trying to make, I got new orthotics that are like, just they look like they are |
| 0:58.2 | UFOs, they've got so many arches and bumps and this and that. |
| 1:02.8 | Do they rotate? |
| 1:04.8 | I wish they did. |
| 1:06.8 | But anyway, so I got those right before Thanksgiving and I'm working on, |
| 1:10.0 | you know, getting back to running and just using my foot again |
| 1:12.4 | and hopefully having it feel better and so |
| 1:14.6 | Orange Theory Fitness which I've talked about before is kind of a 60 minutes |
| 1:18.8 | Strength training rowing treadmill |
| 1:22.1 | Situation a pretty intense little class and a new studio opened just like two miles |
| 1:26.4 | from my house. |
| 1:27.4 | Oh, good. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.4 | So I finally felt like my foot wasn't a good enough place to go using that they have a bike. |
| 1:34.8 | They have a couple of bikes if you don't want to use a treadmill so I'm not I'm not ready to get |
| 1:38.8 | on the treadmill yet. But anyway so I went on Sunday for the first time. |
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