#225: From Fat to Finish Line
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Dimity have a virtual sit-down with Jennifer Roe and Katie Foster, two of the stars of the new documentary “From Fat to Finish Line,” which chronicles a team of 12 runners who lost a combined weight of 1,200+ pounds as they run a Ragnar Relay in Key West. Producer Jennifer leads off the conversation, telling how her running and weight-loss journey started with a vow to run “a 5-mile marathon” and why this slightly misguided intention was her $100 “action step.” Jen, a mom of a special-needs son, shares how running one mile nonstop for the first time shattered all her self-constrained limits about herself—and how now she’s training for her second New York City Marathon. Find out what she “1000% recommends” to change your mindset toward a race. (Apologies in advance: Jen has several coughing jags during the show; she was getting over a cold.) Next up is Katie “Runs for Cookies” Foster, who walks through how a bike riding experience morphed her into a runner. Katie shares details of the lower-body...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bo and Shay and I am delighted to be joined today by Dimmity McDowell. |
| 0:17.0 | Yep, here I am. Joining. |
| 0:19.0 | Joining, fresh off the plane from Alaska. |
| 0:22.0 | Fresh off the boat. Yes, plane from Alaska. Fresh off the boat. |
| 0:23.5 | Yes, yes, Alaska. |
| 0:25.4 | Oh my gosh, wow. |
| 0:26.8 | That state is so big, Sarah, so big. |
| 0:31.3 | I can't even tell you. |
| 0:32.2 | I mean, we were in like, you slice of a slice of a slice of it and it still feels huge. I mean, |
| 0:38.9 | Wow. It defies all descriptions. |
| 0:43.6 | You live in a state with huge vistas, |
| 0:45.6 | and it seemed like you were really blown away |
| 0:47.3 | by the vistas there. |
| 0:48.3 | I really was. |
| 0:49.2 | I mean, that's the thing. |
| 0:49.8 | I couldn't stop taking pictures of them. |
| 0:51.5 | And part of it is just like well Denali right okay so |
| 0:54.5 | Denali is I can't as I just can't remember things but say it's two million acres |
| 1:00.4 | it's not that big but there's it's huge right and you get to go |
| 1:04.2 | in the way that they do it you most cars cannot go in you can't go on in beyond 15 |
| 1:09.6 | miles do you have to get on this bus which looks like a school bus from the outside, but the seats |
| 1:14.4 | are a little bit more comfortable from the inside. A little, not much, but a little. |
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