#213: Muslim Women Runners
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Just as Ramadan is about to commence, Sarah and co-host Adrienne Martini welcome two guests who are both newer runners—and Muslims—to talk about being a female Muslim (a.k.a. a “Muslimah”) and running. First up is Monica Wallace, one of the co-founders of the group Muslimahs on the Run (MOTR). Monica tells how the seeds for MOTR were photos she shared on social media of herself and friends running in hijab and other modest running attire in keeping with their Islamic faith. This mother runner of three talks about how Muslim women can look 10 different ways when they hit the pavement, and why (and where) she felt “free and fancy” in the United Arab Emirates while exercising. Monica explains how she surprised herself at being able to run during the month-long Ramadan, despite fasting during daylight hours. Finally, Monica shares two stories about how running and Muslimahs on the Run changed the lives of two women, including her own mother. Then Muslimah and mother-of-two Doaa Elhaggan joins Sarah in the...
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| 0:23.8 | your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay and I'm joined by Adrian Martini. Welcome Adrian. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you, Sarah. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm right here in lovely Onionta, New York. |
| 0:47.0 | Nice, nice. |
| 0:48.0 | Has summer arrived there yet? |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, with a vengeance. |
| 0:51.0 | It went from pretty much winter to 90 degrees. |
| 0:57.0 | The East Coast specializes in doing that. |
| 0:59.0 | It really does. It's our thing. You know, we all have to have a thing. This is our. Yeah, I went for my first heat, hot, humid, gross long run on Saturday. |
| 1:12.0 | Wish I'd left an hour earlier. on Saturday. |
| 1:13.0 | I wish I'd left an hour earlier than I did. |
| 1:16.0 | By the time I got home, I was just a drowned rat, apparently, |
| 1:19.8 | just kind of lay down on the floor for a while. |
| 1:22.1 | So, oh, I guess,, well I am entering the oven, so to speak, |
| 1:27.0 | as we record this on June 1st. |
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