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Another Mother Runner

#165: Tips and Tales from an Ultrarunning Fitness Instructor

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Dimity welcome on Laura Swenson to hear her tales of running the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim. This mother of three tells how she has run 30+ marathons since her first 26.2-miler in December 2001 (yeah, you do the staggering math on that feat!), as well as how the first time she stepped out of her athletic comfort...

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0:00.0

Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah in Portland. And this is Dimmity in Denver.

0:15.0

So, so Dimm I got to tell you a little anecdote.

0:18.0

Yeah. So, today is hopefully the last day I am in my ankle cast and so I don't know I just got a little B in my bonnet and

0:27.6

It is the penultimate day of school here in Portland and so I suddenly was like oh I want to go and you know drop the kids off at

0:34.7

school with you Jack so I can't drive because it's my right ankle and so we

0:39.5

dropped Phoebe off at her school and then there's a little bit of time to kill. I'm like, well, given how long

0:44.0

it'll take me to park and, you know, or Jack to Park and then me to walk in, I knew we'd be okay. So anyway, driving home,

0:49.4

though, from school we're at a stoplight and I look out the window and I see a penny on the sidewalk.

0:55.8

Oh my gosh. And I'm like, gah can't jump out of car and I'm like, Jack a penny!

1:02.0

And then we're sitting there and then I see a dime and I'm like

1:06.8

Jack there's a dime too and he's like oh oh he's like if it was paper money I'd stop stop I'd park but we can't do it, you know and da da da da and so I'm like okay okay and I'm thinking it's enough that I found it and so then so Jack takes me home he drops me off and then he heads off to work, and about five minutes later he

1:26.6

text me a picture of the dime, and he just says, the penny was already taken.

1:31.8

And I just thought, I text him back,

1:34.8

I said, you really love me.

1:38.6

You'd get me and you love me.

1:40.3

I was supposed to say, I think you would probably

1:41.8

would have set Molly back out.

1:43.2

Oh, I just go on the sidewalk on the corner of First in Maine.

1:47.6

That's what I was going to do.

1:48.9

If I had time, I had I hadn't eaten breakfast.

1:51.7

I had to eat breakfast before we record the podcast and so I was a little

1:55.3

press for time but I was going to say, I was going to tweet, Portland Mother, you know, hashtag

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