#239: Running Podcast: Bart Yasso Is the Man!
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Amanda Loudin catch up with running luminary and Runner’s World Chief Running Officer, Bart Yasso, days after Bart’s retirement announcement on Twitter. The trio set off talking about how to get into big, mega-popular running races, but the conversation rapidly veers toward amazing anecdotes from Bart’s four decades of running. It’s like the podcast version of the guiding principle Bart shares: “Never limit where running can take you.” Sarah and Bart bond over “tube socks” as he tells how he became the “mayor of running” after nearly expiring while running his first mile. Find out what Bart strongly encourages every runner to do at a race. (Hint: It involves standing around.) He emphasizes the importance of being a runner for life, and how it should guide planning your race calendar. Marvel at Bart’s story about running the 2016 Richmond Marathon with four random women (including two mother runners!), and how this icon made running “cool” for one 14-year-old girl. Bart reflects on his...
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| 0:48.8 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined by |
| 1:08.0 | Amanda Louden today of one of the coaches from the Train Like a Mother Club. |
| 1:11.6 | Hello Amanda. Hi there there happy to be here. Good good. So you in addition to being a coach you are a freelance writer. So what articles have you been working on lately? What writing have you been doing? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah. So a lot of running related things. I just had had one last week that came out talking |
| 1:31.5 | about caffeinated gums. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, okay, yeah, I saw that. |
| 1:35.0 | I was really, I saw you tweeting that up and I went and looked at it and it got me thinking about, |
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| 1:47.0 | Yeah. Yeah, that was a fun one because that's definitely something I've never used and |
| 1:54.0 | so I was curious about it and you know curious about its efficacy and so that was |
| 2:00.3 | pretty cool to learn a little bit about that one. |
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