#474: Balancing Being a Dad + an Ironman Triathlete
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In a nod to Father’s Day, Sarah and Dimity talk with Russell Newell, a father of four young kiddos and the author of Irondad Life. In detailing his journey to being on the cusp of his seventh Ironman triathlon, Russ shares:
-how the more kids he has, the tougher training becomes;
-his training (or lack thereof!);
-why he cries as he sprints to the finish line;
-nutrition advice that helped him get in racing shape; and,
-marathon pacing advice.
In the intro, Sarah details her recent East Coast trip to visit her elderly mother and her BFF. The Irondad hustles in at 16:41.
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| 0:46.9 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today by Dividi McDowell. Hello, |
| 1:01.6 | Dividi. Hello, Sarah. How are you? Welcome home. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. I have made my first |
| 1:10.1 | trip since returning from our February 2020 Hilton head retreat. So 15 plus months without |
| 1:19.6 | getting on airplane and last week I hopped on plane and flew out to the east coast to visit my |
| 1:26.4 | almost 95-year-old mother and see my sister see a good friend from a million years ago and then |
| 1:32.8 | spend the weekend in the Hudson Valley with my BFF chocolate. What a great trip and I've already |
| 1:38.5 | heard the download but I think we need to hear a little bit more. So it all went pretty well minus |
| 1:43.3 | a little hiccup on the airlines part. Yeah, so that was, but hey, it allowed me to see the |
| 1:49.3 | brood exocadas because I had to spend an unexpected night in the delus area in D.C. outside D.C. |
| 1:58.8 | So yeah, so after that I just was like, okay, that's in the rearview mirror and went and saw my |
| 2:03.9 | mother and as I said, she's about to be 95 and she has Alzheimer's and she also had a stroke |
| 2:14.0 | earlier this year which really limits how much she can talk. But so of course she had forgotten |
| 2:21.9 | that I was coming to visit her and so you know, if she does, when she does think of me, she thinks |
| 2:27.8 | of me as being very far away and so when I got to the facility that where she lives, she was in a |
| 2:36.7 | group session. I don't know what it was like some sort of class and and so she turns to me. I'm |
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