#261: Behind the Scenes with Two Race Directors
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Dimity chat with two race directors-- Virginia Brophy Achman of Twin Cities in Motion, and Sarah Ratzlaff with ZOOMA, who also worked for runDisney for 11 years. This episode kicks off with a long catch-up session between the AMR co-founders. Find out what Sarah’s watching on Netflix—and why Dimity isn’t. The duo’s conversation winds up with fast-food reminiscences from childhood. When Virginia from Twin Cities Marathon joins the jabber, she shares the 20-degree rule of marathoning plus the port-a-potty ratio favored by race directors. (Who knew?!) Virginia shares race etiquette tips, plus advice on organizing a local race. Sarah Ratzlaff (a.k.a. “Other Sarah”) makes the ladies laugh with behind-the-scenes Disney anecdotes. The trio talk about how the races have changed over the past decade, and Other Sarah tells how she’s bringing her creativity to a boutique race like ZOOMA. Dimity wraps the episode with a heartbreaking, yet life-affirming, tale from the Train Like a Mother Club: Be...
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| 0:19.0 | Use offer code AMR at checkout for 50% off your first month of vitamins. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today by |
| 0:38.5 | Dimity McDowell. Hello. How are you doing today? Oh, I'm good, although it's another gloomy, overcast, cold, wet day here in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, that's surprising. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, it's lovely here in Colorado. It's supposed to be 60, although we are expecting the |
| 0:59.9 | Ben's lacrosse coach set a foot of snow. I think that's a little dramatic. |
| 1:05.3 | But yeah, it's supposed to be high of like 40 tomorrow |
| 1:08.0 | and snowy and rainy. |
| 1:09.0 | That's May. |
| 1:10.0 | I remember picking up my Boulder, which is a Memorial Day race, right? |
| 1:14.8 | I remember picking up my number for that and having Snowby on the ground. |
| 1:19.2 | So... |
| 1:20.2 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:21.2 | Wow. |
| 1:22.2 | Wow. Okay, so all right, so you got me beat. Okay. Yeah, no, it's |
| 1:24.9 | You know what? It melts super quickly. It's just and unfortunately Amelia |
| 1:30.4 | who you know is my eighth grader, has been looking forward. |
| 1:34.0 | They're going on a, you know, their eighth grade final trip, a trip. |
| 1:39.9 | They go to this place called 100 elk, which is out in the mountains some kind of like |
| 1:44.1 | nature retreat thing for three days and she left this morning and I mean it's at |
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