AMR Answers: Race-day Success Advice + Run-Walk Guidance

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Anyone hoping to nail a fall race, like Michelle, will appreciate all the night-before and morning-of advice from seasoned racers/hosts Sarah and Dimity. Proponents of the run-walk method, like Emily, will breathe a sigh of relief at Coach Dimity’s answer to, “Do I need more cardio?” And parents like Peter will be grateful for the advice—and empathy—about getting your teens to stick with running. The host-duo share smile-inducing sports anecdotes from recent memorial services they each attended before jump into Q&As at about 6:00. Please call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771) to record your question, and find the off-season triathlon training programs here. 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 Calm your racing mind: Save 25% at CBDistillery.com with code AMR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Curex for its continued support.
0:02.5	Curex insults are engineered for unequaled comfort performance and injury prevention for a wide variety of sports and activities.
0:09.3	For 15% off, visit Curex.com and use code AMR 15.
0:18.8	Welcome to AMR Answers.
0:20.4	This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimity McDowell.
0:24.2	Yes. So, Dim. I had an interesting experience yesterday as we record this. We're recording this just a day before it airs. Oh, my gosh. Cutting it close here, folks. So, yeah, I went to a memorial service for a woman who was the organizer of the first pickleball league that I was a member of.
0:44.9	Okay.
0:45.6	Yeah, so her name was Carol, and Carol passed away from cancer.
0:50.2	And it was just really very heartwarming and life affirming. And it was, um, she died in January. So this was, you know, certainly a long time after she died. And, um, so, and it was deemed adventures with Carol. And gosh, I mean, she, so she was in her mid-60s, I think she was 67 when she died.
1:12.6	And she, yeah, she played pickleball.
1:16.7	She was on a senior women's soccer league that was very, very competitive.
1:23.3	She hiked.
1:25.2	And then it was at this park.
1:28.5	It was at a structure at a park.
1:30.9	So, you know, wood kind of open sides, but a very solid roof overhead.
1:37.0	And they just had all this memorabilia, for lack of a better term, of Carol's life.
1:43.8	And my gosh, I just had, you know, there was her
1:46.2	finisher's shirt from the 2016 Portland Marathon and all these medals from all these events
1:54.2	that she had done and, you know, photos of her kayaking and her pickleball paddle was there and all this stuff.
2:03.2	And she was in the Air Force, so they had her uniform there and some of her shoes,
2:08.2	and she had tiny feet.
2:09.6	Carol was very short.
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