A Conversation with Keira D'Amato

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This is the ideal episode for anyone who loves to go big—or read about people who do. Hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton have a fun conversation with Keira D'Amato, a mother runner perhaps best known for, in 2022, breaking a 16-year American record in the marathon. In addition to talking about her brand-new book Don’t Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing PRs, and Started Chasing Happiness, Keira shares: -the healing properties of running for her; -what a 2013 marathon taught her re: not taking training for granted; -how motherhood changed her approach to running; -her “magical” mantra while marathon training in 2022; and-her, um, unconventional root-beer float recipe! Before Keira joins around 11:19, the hosts detail their recent, friend-filled weekend getaways. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Feel the Currex difference: Get 15% off with code AMR15 at Currex.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on allIQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Kurex for its exclusive sponsorship of this episode.
0:03.5	Kurex is the best-selling insult in running stores.
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0:10.8	For 15% off, visit Kurex.com and use code AMR15. Welcome to another mother runner.
0:27.0	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:28.2	I'm joined by Tish Hamilton.
0:29.6	Hello, Tish.
0:30.9	Hello, Sarah.
0:31.7	It's so nice to be here today.
0:33.5	Yes, and I hear that we both are, you know, have similar experiences that we've been on sporty getaways with girlfriends recently. Tell us about yours.
0:44.2	Well, I was actually visiting my daughter in New York City where she goes to college and she is a senior this year. And I tell you what, it took me all four years of her being in
0:55.1	college to figure out how to do the trip right. And I have got it nailed. I've got it nailed.
1:02.3	And now she's leaving. Yes, in the nick of time. But, you know, so she goes to college in New York City.
1:08.7	And I was living in New Jersey before she started college.
1:12.1	I moved down to Savannah.
1:13.6	And so my dearest, closest friends are still in New Jersey.
1:17.8	And the thing that I did that was so genius was I lured each one of my three dear friends, dear friends who all happen to be runners, into the city to visit me with something that would
1:28.3	motivate each of them. And so on one night, my daughter and I had dinner with my dear friend
1:36.9	Yes, Shane, who loves sushi. So we went out for sushi. I lured her in with sushi. And one afternoon, I went, I lured in another friend who loves Broadway shows. I lured her in with sushi. Good. Uh-huh. And, yeah, and one afternoon I went, I lured in another friend who loves Broadway shows.
1:47.9	I lured her in by choosing a show that I knew she'd like to see.
1:51.4	And so we went to that.
1:53.0	Uh-huh.
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