#377: The Real-Life Woman behind “Brittany Runs a Marathon”
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Maggie get real with Brittany O’Neill, the woman whose story is told on the big screen in the just-released movie, “Brittany Runs a Marathon.” This candid conversation covers:
-Brittany’s actual first running steps;
-Brittany’s admission that she had to be clued in to washing her workout clothes after every workout (!!);
-Brittany’s belief that self-acceptance and self-confidence are not mutually exclusive;
-how Brittany started using friends as “anchors” on her journey of self-acceptance;
-how Brittany learned to be okay with being bigger than society’s ideal of “fit.”
In the intro, learn what sport Maggie is coaching and what musical Sarah and her younger daughter recently enjoyed. Brittany joins the duo at 13:35.
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| 1:16.7 | How are things in Ohio? They're good. It's the end of summer. School has started and you are filling a role that's kind of |
| 1:27.4 | a teachery. You are coaching cross country? I am. I know. What the yeah, so and and it's your is it your it's your older son right it's my oldest son Dylan |
| 1:38.6 | he's in sixth grade and yeah the the church we belong to decided to start up a team and you know I don't know it was one of those moments where they sent out the email and as much as I say like don't volunteer for anything else I was like I'll do it. |
| 1:55.2 | Turn it. Don't make eye contact don't make eye contact I know we just can't have a season unless we have parents support and I was like oh |
| 2:00.4 | geez okay I'll do it. Oh my goodness. |
| 2:05.0 | And so has, so training started and when's the first meet? |
| 2:10.0 | This weekend, and my older brother he's amazing he's a former |
| 2:16.0 | marathoner and he has been coaching for a very long time and his his girls high |
| 2:22.3 | school girls go to state. |
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