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Another Mother Runner

AMR Answers #73: Training for a Downhill Race; Timing of Foam Rolling

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Running, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dimity and Sarah provide counsel: 

-about training with a spouse in response to Megan’s question;

-to Maya about ramping up (down?!) to run a downhill race; and, 

-for Molly on the timing for foam rolling and stretching. The key? Consistency.

In the intro, Dimity details her aquabike training, plus an upcoming race. The duo starts offering answers at 9:09.


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0:18.4

Welcome to AMR Answers. This is Sarah Bowen Shea.

0:29.9

And this is Dimitri McDowell coming to you with a piece of broccoli in the back of my

0:35.2

back of my mouth, which I just realized that you hear me picking it out during the podcast.

0:39.8

Just, you know, that's one silver lining to a mask mandates coming back.

0:45.2

Is it like, oh, who cares if five chia seeds or poppy seeds in my team?

0:48.8

It's all good. Seriously, seriously, just got one of those little, one of those little tent,

0:54.4

like the little tops, the little dots of broccoli, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah.

0:59.0

A floret, a little floret. A floret. But I don't think it's, I think it's even smaller than that.

1:03.5

I'm microcosm, probably. A nano floret. Yes, a nano floret. There you go. There you go.

1:09.6

Oh my god, so Dim, uh, based on the calendar, it looks like you are about a month out from your

1:16.1

big race. I am. I am one I'm actually racing again. You didn't, you didn't know this. This is

1:20.9

going to be breaking news. I'm racing on Saturday. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. Yeah. Just

1:25.8

dim, right? It's so exciting. It's so exciting. But this is it doing an aqua bike. Well,

1:32.5

imagine that an aqua bike in Boulder. It's called the Boulder Sunset Triathlon Series. They

1:38.4

have one. Grant was like, was that mean it starts in the evening? And I was like, no,

1:41.5

it means it's the end of the season. They have a sunrise in June and then the sunset in August.

1:47.2

And yeah, I'm doing it to the Olympic distance one. So that means it's a 1500 meter swim and a

1:55.8

20, I think it's 26.4 mile bike. So I know that because I've been formulating my race strategy

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