#426: Alysia Montaño Talks about Motherhood, Saying “No, Not Now,” and Race
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Tish welcome professional runner, activist, podcast host, and new mom (for a 3rd time) Alysia Montaño. In addition to talking about her new book, Feel-good Fitness, Alysia details:
- how fitness is her “space for joy”;
- the importance of making life during this pandemic “manageable and sustainable”;
- advice on cultivating motivation;
- the mothers-supporting mission of &Mother, the foundation she co-founded; and,
- what she, as a Black woman, is feeling in the current racial injustice reckoning
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| 0:15.2 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm delighted to be joined today by Tish Hamilton. Hello, Tish. Hi, Sarah. I'm so glad to be here today. Yeah, it has been a while. I really don't know what's going on with you. I was like, oh, I'll check on |
| 0:24.4 | Instagram and there wasn't anything, you know, really there. So you just have to hear words instead |
| 0:31.6 | of seeing pictures. |
| 0:32.8 | I will, I will. |
| 0:34.2 | So I don't know how's running been going, |
| 0:37.7 | have you gotten to your boyfriend, who lives in Savannah, |
| 0:41.6 | about what, how many miles is that from you 800 a thousand it is it is a |
| 0:46.2 | hundred and I know that because I drove it a couple of weeks ago and spend a week at his |
| 0:52.2 | place and then you know drove myself back in one day so and I was quite proud of myself it was an endurance feat. |
| 1:00.0 | I feel the same way about big road trips and I'm just like yeah I can do this man I'm gonna like pace myself with like have a special drink or treat at a certain |
| 1:12.0 | you know? |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, snacks. |
| 1:14.4 | All the way. |
| 1:15.1 | I had all my snacks. |
| 1:16.2 | I had, and they were like crunchy snacks |
| 1:18.1 | to keep me awake. |
| 1:19.0 | So I had carrot sticks and celery sticks and popcorn and grapes. And then I had. and |
| 1:23.0 | grapes and then I had like, you know, dark chocolate peanut butter cups and you have to like, you know, |
| 1:26.2 | dark chocolate peanut butter cups and you have to like ration them. |
| 1:31.0 | Yes, of course and keep them in a cool spot so that you know that doesn't become |
| 1:35.2 | this all over the stairs. |
| 1:37.2 | Right. |
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