A Conversation with Alysia Montaño

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This episode is a must for anyone who loves listening to a strong woman who makes things happen: The guest is Olympian Alysia Montaño, co-founder of &mother and mother of three. In this lively conversation with hosts Sarah and Tish, Alysia details: -making the transition from track to marathon running; -the backstory of &mother; -the invisible load of motherhood, especially for women runners; -her strength-training routine; and, -the joys of trail running. Before Alysia joins around 8:45, Tish shares exciting news about the new marathon she’s running this November! When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Get a free Detergent Trifecta Sampler with code TRIFECTA at SweatXsport.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Sweatex Sport Detergent for sponsoring this episode and giving us an extra special offer for you.
0:06.0	Be sure to listen to the ad midway through the episode for all the details. So. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boensche. I'm joined by Tish Hamilton. Hello Tish.
0:31.0	Hi, Sarah. I hear hear word on the street is there is a new marathon in that
0:37.8	lovely city of Savannah that you live in. You know since we last talked there was an announcement of a new marathon coming to
0:44.7	Samantha and I'm so excited I can't even begin to tell you. It is called the
0:50.0	Every Woman's Marathon and it is it has a lot of really high profile women runner names
0:59.2	attached to it including Catherine Switzer, the famous Boston Marathon pioneer.
1:07.0	Des Linden, who of course won Boston Marathon in that crazy rainy year.
1:12.0	My favorite D Dina Castor, Olympic Marathon, yes, and Allison Desir, who is the author of
1:18.9	Running While Black, who you and I got to talk to once upon a time. Yes, yes. That's fantastic and when is this illustrious race going to be?
1:26.3	Well, coming soon to Savannah. No. No, it is.
1:33.0	They have a date and I was so excited and I went right up and signed up right away.
1:38.6	And then and then I started thinking about the fact that Savannah is quite a warm city so it is on it's in
1:45.6	November and it's the second weekend of November so I want to say whatever that date is
1:50.1	November 16th or November 16th.
1:53.2	It's on a Saturday.
1:54.4	Yes, yes, that's a southern thing.
1:56.4	We like our we like our races on Saturday so we can go to church on Sunday.
2:00.0	And actually I like it too because then you have Sunday to recover before we have to go back to work.
2:06.0	Yes, and limp around to your colleagues who are you okay? Are you okay?
2:10.0	Yeah. But this last Sunday, you know, I'm all, you know, all high on the excitement about this new
2:18.1	marathon in our city.
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