#196: “Regular” Mother Runners Doing Olympic Marathon Trials, Pt. 1

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Ellison Weist co-host this first of two extra-special podcasts building excitement and anticipation for the Olympic Marathon Trials, which take place in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 13(and will be broadcast live on NBC starting at 1 p.m. EST). On each podcast, Sarah and her co-hort talk with three “everyday” mother runners who qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials and will be running them: On this episode, it’s Becki Spellman, Shaluinn Fullove, and Cynthia Fowler. Although most runners can only dream about running 26.2 miles as fast as these gals do, Becki, Shaluinn, and Cynthia talk about experiencing the same guilt over leaving their families for runs and the importance of making a weekly plan to fit in their workouts. All three mother runners talk about their goals at the Trials and about the effort they’ve put in to get to the starting line. Inspiration and advice abound!

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0:00.0	Welcome to another Mother Runner podcast. This is your host Sarah Boen Shay and today I'm joined in studio by Ellison Weist.
0:18.0	Hey Allison. Good morning Sarah. How are you? Oh, I'm very well. It's always fun to have you in the studio.
0:24.7	So Ellison is one of our four new co-host joining the show on a rotating basis.
0:28.9	If you're a regular listener, you might find Ellison's Southern Lilt and name familiar as she's co-hosted
0:34.8	our last two summer reading podcasts which leads us to the recurring topic that
0:40.1	you Ellison will always talk about the start of each show so people can like clue
0:45.2	into, oh yeah, I remember who she is.
0:47.4	So it's going to be books.
0:49.5	And Ellison, why don't you tell us why you're known in some circles as the book bully and tell us what books great or otherwise that you've been reading lately? About 10 years ago and my darling daughter actually was more like 15 was a teenager we were in a bookstore and I saw a woman perusing looking at a couple of books and I stopped
1:08.0	her and said if you like that book you'll probably like this title and my daughter who was about 16 at the time was horribly
1:14.9	embarrassed and pulled me to the side and said mom you were such a book bully.
1:18.8	I did not know that that's how I got it and it stuck. And I think this month and in January what amazed me is for the first time the two books that I was just thunderstruck by are also the leading books on the New York Times bestseller list.
1:38.6	Oh yeah, because usually sometimes you go, you know, off-peased and you know choose your own favorites and so
1:43.7	following the crowd exactly well this time you know New York Times and I are in sync and
1:49.1	it their fiction top one is the new one by Elizabeth Stroud it's called my name is
1:55.1	Lucy Barton. Oh right and remind me the other books that she has written?
1:59.6	Amy and Isabel and then she's most well known lately for Olive Kittridge.
2:04.4	Right, right, right, which was a Pulitzer winner.
2:07.4	My name is Lucy Barton is a very quiet book.
2:10.8	For those who liked Evening by Susan Mano they will enjoy that. It's just I think a
2:18.9	stunning work of hers but it is what I would call a quiet novel. On the non-fiction
2:25.3	list we've got when breath becomes air by Paul Kellinithia's and I hope I'm not
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