#203: First Ladies of Running with Amby Burfoot
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Sarah and co-host Ellison Weist are delighted to be joined by long-time Runner’s World editor and author Amby Burfoot to talk about his new book, First Ladies of Running, which profiles 22 groundbreaking women runners. First Amby shares his running story, including remembrances of winning the 1968 Boston Marathon at the age of 21 (!!). Amby and Ellison bond over having androgynous names, then he muses on why Kathrine Switzer is mistakenly thought to be the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. He talks about the risk for new runners to do too much, too soon, offering the reminder, “big progress in running comes from slow, incremental steps.” When he utters the sentence, “running is constantly about beginning again,” Amby earns a mother runner stripe. He continues showing his empathy for women runners when he talks about the ways in which running fosters independence and builds strength. Having run the majority of the 1994 Marine Corps Marathon mere steps behind Oprah, Amby shares several intriguing...
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is your host Sarah Bowen Shay and I am joined today by Ellison Weast. Welcome Ellison. Good morning. So, all right, Ellison, you are the book bully to remind folks, |
| 0:23.0 | so what have you been reading lately |
| 0:24.4 | that you've been loving, that you've been hating? |
| 0:26.5 | Loving, loving, loving short stories. |
| 0:28.6 | And I know a lot of readers are not big short story readers, |
| 0:31.6 | but I have two that I was gobsmacked by my favorite word love |
| 0:36.2 | it and the first one is a debut by a young man named Callen Wink.-A-L-A-N-Wink. |
| 0:47.0 | He's actually a fly fishing guide from Montana, |
| 0:50.0 | who looks like he's about 17 years old. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, it's so fine, because I thought, oh, I bet he's hot. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, he is, he is. |
| 0:57.0 | Wink, wink, nod. |
| 0:58.0 | Had to throw that in there, honey. |
| 1:00.0 | But his debut is called Dog Run Moon. |
| 1:05.5 | And the stories are phenomenal. |
| 1:08.7 | I was just sort of blown away. |
| 1:10.3 | Apparently he's written, several of these stories were published years ago in the New Yorker |
| 1:16.3 | and people have been really anticipating this collection with good reason and then I loved Fortune Smiles, another collection of short stories by Adam Johnson. |
| 1:28.0 | I really enjoyed that. |
| 1:31.0 | And then this seems to be the year of dysfunctional sibling get-togethers. |
| 1:37.0 | I don't know if you've read Tessa Hadley, she's a British author who also writes short stories and in the past I've liked her short stories more but she has a new book called The Past and it's about four siblings getting together in an kind of older home that |
| 1:57.3 | used to belong to their grandparents and they have a lot of history with this house. So the weekend that they're there they have to rather the three weeks |
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