#243: Motivational Running Advice—and Then Some!
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this hour-plus episode, Sarah kicks off the New Year with two co-hosts—dear Dimity and Amanda Loudin—to talk about motivation: how to bolster it now and throughout the year. The three mother runners draw on personal experience as well as professional tips they’ve gathered in their years as freelance health and fitness journalists, starting with the importance of being happy in life. The conversation takes many twists and turns, especially as they discuss the “beauty in suffering” and why you need to “show up” to have some runs become “magical.” There are a lot of numbers bandied about in this episode: Find out what 3-1-2-1 means to Dimity; why 20 minutes is long enough for a mental and emotional reset; and the significance of 18:30. Sneak a peek at Dimity’s 5:00 a.m. lying-in-bed routine, plus Sarah and Amanda’s 30-minute pre-run requisites. And discover how The Boss enters into this entertaining conversation. Whether you need help sticking to a training plan or getting out of bed instead of hitting...
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| 0:14.7 | Hi everybody, Dimity here. Before we start today's show, I want to apologize for a mark that I made on a previous show about clapping with your, like I've called a goalpost clapping. It was brought to my attention by a couple of mother runners that that is actually how deaf people clap |
| 0:17.4 | and that's the sign and the ASL for clapping. |
| 0:20.5 | And I hope that you know that my remarks were not meant to be mean or that kind of thing I just didn't know. |
| 0:28.0 | So I apologize if I offended you and I now know what that means and when it's appropriate I will join in as well. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boenshe |
| 0:49.4 | and I am delighted to be joined by two co-host. You can take a guess who the first one is. |
| 0:55.0 | That would be Dimmity. |
| 0:57.0 | And then the other one is Amanda Louden. |
| 1:00.0 | So hello, Dimity and Amanda. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, this feels like a party with three of them. |
| 1:04.0 | I know, I know, right? |
| 1:06.0 | On this third day, a fourth day, fourth day of 2017, isn't it funny how quickly we stop saying |
| 1:11.3 | happy new year? |
| 1:12.2 | It's like oh |
| 1:13.4 | happy holidays merry Christmas happy Hanukkah like I feel like it's over. |
| 1:17.2 | Oh I said happy new year too when I was running this morning I saw our mail |
| 1:21.5 | carrier who does a lot for another mother |
| 1:24.2 | runner and our store so I yelled out happy new year to her. |
| 1:27.6 | Well there you go you're keeping the spirit going. I am I'm milking it for all |
| 1:31.9 | it's worth. |
| 1:32.6 | So did everybody have a nice holiday break? |
| 1:37.2 | Or you're still in it, Tim, right? |
| 1:40.3 | Oh yes, don't time. |
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