#161: Grandmother Runner Katherine Beiers, the Oldest Finisher of 2015 Boston Marathon
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 16 May 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A special in-studio guest, Katherine Beiers chats with Dimity and Sarah: At age 82, Katherine is the oldest finisher at 2015 Boston Marathon, running 5:53 in wicked-bad weather conditions. Perhaps more amazingly, this mother of three and grandmother of 10 didn’t start running until age 48 yet has since run nearly 50 races 26.2 miles or longer. Katherine tells why she started running—and what keeps her putting in the miles (a typical week for her is 30 or more miles!).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah in Portland. |
| 0:13.0 | And this is Dimmity in Denver. |
| 0:15.0 | How's the joint? We got to know how's the joint SVS. |
| 0:18.0 | I have very little pain and, you know, the surgery went very well and there definitely was I have |
| 0:27.8 | a lot of hardware in my right ankle now I know Jack texted me that picture and I was like, can I put this up on |
| 0:34.8 | an Instagram or is it TMI? And he's like, TMI. It was funny because I thought he should. |
| 0:39.7 | That was one instance I would have said, oh no, no, no, no, go ahead, put it up. it up so I think it I think it answers a lot of questions. |
| 0:46.4 | So yes so I have very little pain you know I mean I definitely find the tough part, really the family component. |
| 0:57.0 | The, you know, my gosh, last night I stood at the, at the stove, what's it called again again that thing where you make heat under food and I stood |
| 1:06.2 | there with Phoebe by my side the you dimity have arranged amongst locals a meal train which is just wonderful to have meals show up because |
| 1:15.6 | Jack, you know, love the man but he is not great at turning out a well-balanced meal. |
| 1:22.3 | So... |
| 1:23.0 | Eight after night, yes. God bless us mothers. |
| 1:25.0 | Yes. |
| 1:26.0 | Yes, so mother runners and neighbors and friends have been bringing food by and Molly, my running partner brought by a really |
| 1:34.2 | tasty kind of Indian inspired chicken dish and but it required rice to be cooked |
| 1:40.7 | with it and so I was like okay and Jack was at a meeting so I'm like okay if we're going to have rice with this I'm going to stand there with Phoebe's help and cooked rice and it just felt so ridiculously good to stand at the stove and you know like prepare the rice yeah I just I just I just |
| 1:57.8 | so tell me did I mean so that's the good news and that's the same thing when you're going to have your running come back, but it just makes you appreciate everything so much more, right? |
| 2:09.0 | Like, all send a dinner doesn't feel like a chore, which I know it usually doesn't feel like a chore to you, but now it's like this blessing gift that you've never you |
| 2:16.8 | know it's like nirvana right I'm making rice I mean like ridiculous things like you know |
| 2:22.4 | we have been filling a lot of orders you know |
| 2:24.6 | from Mother's Day from our store and some exchanges of sizes from our no limits teas from our |
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