AMR Answers: Maintenance Training + Low-Cost Cross-Training Gear
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 ⢠1.3K Ratings
šļø 22 July 2025
ā±ļø 37 minutes
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Summary
Calling all runners like Linda, who isnāt interested in honing speed but in maintaining consistency: Coach Dimity serves up great advice. From a 2-parter from Julie, the hosting duo discuss the best inexpensive cross-training options (loads of suggestions!)āand an intriguing koanĀ involving running and walking, sun and shade.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Tofosi Optics for its support. |
| 0:02.3 | Tofosi is the only brand of sunglasses I sport, whether running, playing pickleball, elliptico riding, or driving. |
| 0:08.1 | Use code AMR 2025 to get 20% off at Tofosioptics.com. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to AMR Answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimity McDowell. How you doing SVS? |
| 0:25.3 | Good. You sound a wee bit waterlogged, perhaps, Dimity. I'm just shaking the water out of my ear, |
| 0:31.3 | actually. Can you feel that? Yes, yes. So, I mean, I wrote on the blog in, I think, June that I wanted to go outdoor swimming once a week. Well, of course, like, that got pushed aside. But now I'm making good on it because on Friday night, Grant and I went to guess who we went to see at the Red Rocks Stadium, Red Rocks, amphitheater. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Who is that band that you see? The Abit Brothers? There you go. The Ava Brothers. Yep, my favorite. And so we went to see them on Friday night. And I realize, like, you drive out there. And it's like beautiful country and you can see the mountains and it's just it's a lovely it's a lovely drive and it's a lovely lovely lovely |
| 0:54.8 | lovely venue. you drive out there and it's like beautiful country and you can see the mountains and it's just it's a |
| 1:11.4 | lovely it's a lovely drive and it's a lovely lovely lovely venue and I was like gosh I just haven't |
| 1:16.7 | been out here in so long because I haven't been hiking you know much and so I was like I just miss |
| 1:21.7 | being out here and I used to ride my bike out around there a lot and I just you know like when you |
| 1:26.6 | like haven't been there for a while you're like oh I forget I just, you know, like when you like haven't been there for |
| 1:27.5 | while, you're like, oh, I forget I miss this, you know? And so Chatfield is a park near there. |
| 1:33.4 | And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go swimming in Chatfield. So Chatfield has the gravel |
| 1:38.2 | pond. If you've been listening for a long time, you'll remember that that's where Katie and I, |
| 1:43.5 | my swim run buddy and I like practiced our like, you'll remember that that's where Katie and I, my swim run buddy and I, like, |
| 1:46.4 | practiced our like, you know, swimming with our shoes on getting out running and then going back. |
| 1:51.7 | And, you know, I swam there for that. |
| 1:54.5 | I swam there for getting ready for the aqua bike national championships in 2021, I think it was. So I've definitely, but it's been |
| 2:03.1 | a while. And since I've been there, or since that time, it used to be that you had to sign up with |
| 2:09.4 | like a master's team or a triathlon team. Like they kept track of who was in the water and when. |
| 2:15.2 | Really? Yeah. And it was like, I mean, it wasn't crazy amount, but it was, I feel like it was like |
| 2:20.7 | $50 or $70 a summer or something. So if you swam, you know, five or seven times, |
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