#433: Aiming to Be the First Female Black Pro Triathlete

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Amanda converse with Sika Henry who, at age 36, has her sights set on becoming the first professional Black female triathlete in the U.S. Sika shares:

the story of her first marathon, including calling her bestie to pick her up at Mile 17 (!);
details about a serious bike accident she had in a May 2019 triathlon–and her subsequent comeback;
reasons triathlon is dominated by Caucasian men—and what she’s doing to bring Black youth into the sport;
her recovery and self-care tools, including an innovative “human sound” therapy system; and,
her next competitive challenge in the absence of organized races.

The mother runners talk about their respective oldest kids + college in the intro chitchat; Sika hops on at 13:56.

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0:50.6	dot com slash runner. Amazon. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boensche. I'm joined by Amanda Louden.
1:08.0	Hello Amanda.
1:09.0	Hey Sarah, how's it going? Oh, it goes, it goes well. It goes well, yes.
1:14.0	And you and I earn similar boats.
1:17.0	The college, is it on, is it off boat?
1:20.0	Oh my gosh, yeah, what a summer.
1:22.0	So you My gosh, yeah, what a summer.
1:30.0	So your son, your older child is, he's going to be a sophomore and do I need to put air quotes around the at University of Richmond? I mean he's there he went
1:34.1	two weeks so yeah no idea yeah I you know he really he had up until August 5th to
1:41.4	make up his mind and he was really, really close to not going.
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