#414: The Future of Running Races
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Amanda Loudin talk about what races might be like once they get back up and running. Then, in the second half of the episode, the Missoula Marathon director joins the mother runner duo to talk about the cancellation (sniff, sniff) of that June race, which Sarah has been training for. Sharing knowledge gained through Running USA, Amanda details:
- alternatives and modifications to future race expos;
- the “minefield” of a race corral in the age of coronavirus;
- how masks and carry-with-you collapsible cups will become new marketing platforms;
- having to “make do with less” when it comes to race volunteers; and,
- how “it’s going to take a lot of ingenuity to figure out a way forward.”
In the intro chitchat, Sarah offers viewing recommendations, including Hulu’s Mrs. America and Never Have I Ever on Netflix. The guest joins the show at 13:30.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined by Amanda. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello Amanda. Hi, how are you? Good, good. How are you doing? |
| 0:18.9 | Good. I'm appreciating doing, we're recording on Zoom and I appreciate doing this with that video. I'm getting a little |
| 0:24.7 | tired of the video scene. |
| 0:27.0 | Completely, completely. |
| 0:28.5 | There was, did you read that New York Times article about why Zoom is actually |
| 0:32.4 | not the miracle thing that everybody |
| 0:34.6 | thinks it is because you know like nobody makes eye contact on Zoom it's totally |
| 0:39.2 | true it is so true yeah and I feel like know what, I've been doing the remote thing for two decades now and I did it |
| 0:48.0 | without video all these years. |
| 0:50.0 | Yes. |
| 0:51.0 | It could be accomplished. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes, I know. That's the thing, you know, that to me it was it was really a news flash that not everybody used Zoom because you know for AMR we're all scattered around the country we've used it for quite a while and |
| 1:06.2 | I'm actually going to send that New York Times article to some of my colleagues and say hey can we go back to using the phone? Right. |
| 1:13.4 | It's charming about it in this topic. |
| 1:17.8 | Yes. |
| 1:19.8 | So, oh my guys, that's why you mentioned that because because so I came down here to our guest bedroom slash recording studio |
| 1:27.2 | You know a couple just skated in a few minutes before we were gonna start. Oh and there's John my 14 year old son sleeping in the |
| 1:34.3 | guest bed. |
| 1:35.3 | Very conducive to podcast recording. I'm like, John you either need to go upstairs or you need to be really quiet. |
| 1:44.0 | But I think I'm going to win Mother of the Year Award because I went shopping this grocery |
| 1:56.6 | shopping this morning which I hadn't done in about 10 days and I was feeling especially |
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