#410: Trail Running Tips, Trick, and Tales
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Sarah and Amanda talk all things trail running with Sarah Lavender Smith, a running coach and author of The Trail Runner’s Companion. A veteran of 93 (!) marathons and ultras, Sarah shares:
- her personal transformation from smoker to accomplished ultramarathoner;
- the importance of optimism and adaptability when hitting the trail;
- safety-related scenarios to be prepared for (hint: it’s not “wild animals and creepy people”);
- her favorite pre-run warm-up exercises; and,
- an eye-opening way of looking at “walking” mid-run.
The intro chitchat runs the gamut, including Sarah talking about her continued Missoula Marathon training. The Other Sarah joins the show at 15:07.
When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.
We appreciate your--and their--support!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined today by Amanda. Hello Amanda. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey Sarah, how's it going? It goes well. It goes well. We were just laughing before we got on here that I on my run this morning saw a it's recycling day here in the neighborhood and saw a recycling bin just full of wine bottles |
| 0:32.4 | Maybe I stayed in the wrong house to shelter and play. |
| 0:36.0 | Right. Oh my goodness. So are you staying busy with assignments? |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, I mean I still have a good number. I'm a little bit sad because I really |
| 0:51.0 | March was the most incredible month ever for me and it's definitely |
| 0:55.7 | slowing right now you know which is to be expected I mean the entire economy is slowing |
| 1:00.0 | so yeah so you know I try to stay calm about that but was your March I mean was it |
| 1:08.0 | pandemic related or did it just happen that you had a great month? I think I think it was a little bit of both. |
| 1:13.5 | I mean, toward the end, it definitely |
| 1:15.0 | started being more pandemic related work, |
| 1:17.8 | you know, editors who were, you know, |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, some of these editors I just felt, you know, |
| 1:22.4 | they're going nuts out there because |
| 1:23.8 | you know in the health in the health specter you know these people who just these editors who have |
| 1:30.0 | to put out so much copy related to the pandemic and they have to pivot and table things and you know |
| 1:34.9 | So they're working hard and yeah so some of it was some some last minute assignments |
| 1:40.8 | Related to the pandemic. So yeah. Yeah. So I want to express my condolences |
| 1:47.5 | verbally. You know we can correspond on Twitter that I am so sorry about the loss of your cat. |
| 1:53.3 | Oh, thank you. I know it was it was awful timing and it was just out of the blue. |
| 1:59.9 | I mean he he just completely like he was 11 years old and always healthy and he just had a seizure and passed within a couple of minutes. |
| 2:10.7 | Yeah, it was the craziest thing and you know it was a lot for my kids because it happened you know right right in their presence and oh my goodness. Yeah and I was thinking wow you know normally I would have been the one home to deal with it, and it just, you know, just me alone, I mean, you know, so it made me sad that they had to be there for that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Feisty Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Feisty Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.