#432: The Power of a Virtual Relay Race
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Dimity, buzzing from the Love the Run You’re With 2.0 virtual relay race weekend, gab with three gals who took part in the solo-yet-very-much-part of-a-team event. Live vicariously as:
- Brooke recounts recreating elements of an episode of The Office with her teammates;
- Lisa extols the delight of tapping into creativity by scheming team names, batons, and costumes;
- Lisa and Emily detail getting soaked by storms;
- all three talk about becoming fast friends with other runners who were strangers just days before; and,
- Emily shares the profound impact it made for teammates to “meet each other where they were.”
In the intro, Dimity and Sarah recount their relay experiences, with Dimity cycling her segments. Brooke joins the conversation at 18:36.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined today by Dimmody McDowell. Hello, Dimmody. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, Ola, how's it going, Sarah? |
| 0:19.0 | It goes well. It goes well. Are you still riding a high after our virtual relay |
| 0:25.4 | race this weekend ah emphasis on riding because I rode my bike in a |
| 0:29.5 | running relay yes I am I am I can't wait to spend an hour or so talking about it. What about you? Are you still feeling good, feeling strong and connected? |
| 0:40.9 | Yes, yes, although boy, it was it was tough and we should rewind and |
| 0:46.3 | tell people what it is exactly we what the virtual relay is because it sounds a |
| 0:51.0 | little bit like an oxymoron, which is definitely what I thought |
| 0:55.4 | emphasis on the moron. |
| 0:56.4 | No, I'm joking. |
| 0:57.4 | When you said... |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, you were a little skeptical when I pulled out. I. I mean I am like you know I would have been a good community organizer a good teacher like I love good you know events like that. So yeah, so basically when we were putting together love the run you're with 2.0 which is a virtual race |
| 1:16.0 | series that you guys probably know about for the first version that we did this |
| 1:19.4 | summer we just had pretty much straight up race distances and And we wanted to mix it up this time |
| 1:24.2 | because if people were coming back, |
| 1:25.9 | we wanted something different to give them. |
| 1:27.5 | And we also wanted to kind of take the emphasis |
| 1:30.5 | off of strict times and put it more on, you know, community momentum for movement, |
| 1:37.7 | connection, like all the things that, you know, if we put the emphasis there, |
| 1:41.5 | the consistency and the miles and all that stuff come along with it but it doesn't feel like such a load sometimes I guess. |
| 1:49.6 | And also the community is so much you you know, yes people miss, you know, a good |
| 1:55.0 | expo and standing at a starting line and having being chip timed and, you know, |
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