195. Mary Johnson, Founder of Lift, Run, Perform, on Postpartum Life and Running
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"I’m just winging it."
Mary Johnson (perhaps best known as @itsamarython on Instagram) is the owner of Lift, Run, Perform. She's a running coach and a strength coach who also works at Ranfone Training Systems. And she just had a baby! Mary's first child, Eli, is five months old, and on this episode, Mary very honestly talks about what the past five months have looked like for her. She talks about the highs and lows of new motherhood, explains her strategy for getting work done as a work-from-home mom, and opens up about her expectations vs. the reality of returning to running postpartum.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- Mary talks about how she’s feeling at 20 weeks postpartum, and shares her take on expectation vs. reality (3:00)
- On seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist (12:10)
- On finding, develoing, and harnessing new-mom confidence (15:00)
- Mary talks about having to get a D&C after giving birth (17:45)
- On being a work-from-home entrepreneur mom, and getting back to work after baby (26:00)
- Mary talks about coaching a group of women to run sub-3:00 marathons this fall (42:50)
What we mention on this episode:
Mary Johnson on Episode 122 of the Ali on the Run Show
Postpartum return-to-exercise recommendations
Abby Bales on Episode 49 of the Ali on the Run Show
Abby Bales on Episode 139 of the Ali on the Run Show
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feller and every week I talk |
| 0:13.3 | with inspiring people who lead interesting lives on the run and beyond. While running is what |
| 0:18.8 | brings us all together on these episodes, we cover so much more than races and paces. So, |
| 0:25.4 | join me here every Thursday to learn about the decisions people have made to get where they |
| 0:29.6 | are today and how getting sweaty has factored in. My guest today is Mary Johnson. You may remember |
| 0:36.7 | Mary as our resident running coach during The Alley and the Experts Week earlier this year. |
| 0:42.0 | You may know her as the founder of Lift Run Perform or you may know her as it's a Mary Thon on |
| 0:47.7 | Instagram. Of course, you may not know Mary yet, so you're about to. This episode is part running |
| 0:54.8 | focused part new mom focused. Mary had her first baby Eli four months ago and she and I have |
| 1:01.2 | bonded a lot offline about the highs and lows of new motherhood. Everything from oh my god, |
| 1:07.8 | I love these cuddles to how in the world am I supposed to get work done with a baby to screw it. |
| 1:15.1 | What was that formula you said I should get? So this episode was really just an excuse for Mary and |
| 1:20.4 | I had to talk about how the past few months have gone as a work from home mom and a running coach. |
| 1:25.0 | We talk about how motherhood in general is going and we talk about how her own return to running |
| 1:29.9 | is going. As always, there is a decent dose of TMI. I hope you're into it. |
| 1:40.4 | Mary, I'm so excited you're here. This is your second time on The Alley on the Run Show and the |
| 1:45.2 | first time you're here, you secretly told me after we finished recording that you were pregnant and |
| 1:50.8 | now it's very much full circle. You are 20 weeks postpartum. You have a beautiful baby Eli and |
| 1:57.7 | we have a lot to talk about. So welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, totally |
| 2:03.1 | different circumstances this time. I'm excited. We're going to talk motherhood and running and all |
| 2:08.1 | that goes into it. So before we do that, we start everything of course, you know, you're a coach, |
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