#220: Mother 5K Runners
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 22 July 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Coach Christine Hinton dive into the joy (and the challenge!) of 5K races, welcoming three mother runners to talk about how they got into running and why 3.1-mile races captivate them. (Along the way, they mix in Voice Memos from other 5Kers.) After laughter-filled chitchat, Couch Christine shares sage advice for this popular-with-all-stripes-of-runners races. The first guest is Erin Troia, who recently ran her 100th race which was her 40th 5K. A self-proclaimed “running slut,” Erin showcases an infectious love of races as she tells how she adores “defying expectations about gals who wear sparkly skirts.” Next is Melanie Martin, a mother of four young daughters who ran her first 5K while six (6!) months pregnant and recently set her 5K PR when her youngest daughter was a mere three (3!!) months old. Melanie shares some last-mile tricks to keep pushing toward the finish line. The final guest, Crystle Ardoin, hails from Alaska. This military spouse gushes how her first 5K made her, “feel...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by |
| 0:14.4 | coach Christine Hinton. Hello. How are you doing? |
| 0:18.8 | Good now that we've all cleared our throats and laughed about it. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm glad that part wasn't recorded. |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, I'd say so. |
| 0:26.0 | So share a few success stories from some of your the people that you train. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah you know oddly enough right now I feel like we're a collective group of |
| 0:40.7 | suffering runners through the heat and everything. |
| 0:44.0 | But I did want to do one shout out to somebody that is going to be running a race this |
| 0:50.1 | coming weekend. |
| 0:51.1 | So I'm hoping this is going to be a good success story for her. |
| 0:54.8 | She is Susan. She actually listens to the podcast as well. She's a police officer in Las |
| 1:00.0 | Vegas. So she's had some difficult times lately with everything that's going on in |
| 1:03.7 | the country with the officers and everything. So she's been a little bit stressed out but |
| 1:08.8 | she's got a big race coming up a 10-K this weekend and some hoping that she's going to have great success there and yeah and do well and hopefully next podcast I can say she peard. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah well good luck to Susan and is the race there in Las Vegas? It is. |
| 1:23.0 | It's going to be like a thousand degrees. |
| 1:25.0 | She is a machine. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't know how she does it. |
| 1:28.0 | And she's a fellow tall person. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, a humber. |
| 1:31.0 | She's six feet tall. Oh, she beats both of us, okay. |
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