AMR Answers: Revitalizing a Sluggish Run + Slower Marathon Training

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode for all runners who have wanted to quit halfway through a run, like Jana. Thankfully, the host duo of Sarah and Dimity share solutions, as they do with Catherine, who wants to know how to beat a 6-hour marathon cut-off despite her comfortable pace being 14- to 15-minute miles. They also counsel Leigh on pressing reset on her training after her race got canceled. Before giving answers to called-in questions, Dimity details the feats of endurance and strength she witnessed at a P!nk concert. To record a question, please call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771). This episode originally debuted on October 31, 2023. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Use code AMR for up to 35% off first subscription order at livemomentous.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a repeat episode that originally aired on October 31st, 2023.
0:10.6	Next week, Coach Liz and I will be back with an all-new episode of nonfiction miles of books,
0:15.8	and then the week after that, Dimity and I will be back to answer your questions.
0:20.0	Please call and leave a voicemail.
0:21.9	Now, on to the show. Welcome to AMR answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimmody McDowell
0:33.0	hanging out a couple days before Halloween. Sarah, do you have a costume ready?
0:37.4	No, I am not, I haven't even bought candy yet, Dan. and out a couple days before Halloween. Sarah, do you have a costume ready?
0:44.5	No, I am not, I haven't even bought candy yet to hand out. I haven't either, to be honest. Yeah,
0:49.8	yeah. Well, because when you buy candy too soon, it basically becomes like snacks, right? That's, that's the problem, at least in our house. But we have Ridwell here, which is a service that now has expanded beyond the Pacific Northwest,
0:56.6	where they take, like, plastic film and batteries and you can styrofoam and things like that.
1:04.3	And so that the, and then they have a special category with every pickup.
1:08.4	And the one that is right after Halloween is left over Halloween
1:13.0	candy. Oh, that's so fun. I love that. Yeah. They donate to like a food banks and stuff,
1:18.7	I bet. Something, yeah. Or that or the staffers just eat at all. I don't know. One or the other.
1:23.2	That's a lot of candy. Oh, my gosh. That's a lot of candy. Yeah, because I mean, usually the special category is plastic lids or corks or electronic wires and things like that. And so for it to be candy. Yes, I love that. That's very clever. I feel like that's, and I feel like the other ones are like art supply stuff, you know. Oh, definitely school supplies, yes.
1:44.5	Oh, yeah, crayons.
1:45.4	Oh, and then I felt so badly that I'd thrown out a lot of kind of half-used crayons before we were Ridwell customers. I'm like, no, I need to get those out of landfill and get them. We need to make some wax candles. Yeah, we sure do. We sure do. So hey, you are fresh off seeing a concert, are you not?
2:03.9	I am.
2:04.5	I am fresh. some wax candles. We sure do. We sure do. So, hey, you are fresh off seeing a concert, are you not?
2:03.9	I am. I am fresh off seeing pink last night, which was amazing, amazing. And I just, I wanted to talk about it for two
2:11.4	reasons. First of all, holy cow, talk about an athlete. Like, I was just amazed.
2:18.1	And I'm fresh off seeing all my girls because I saw the Taylor Swift movie on Sunday night.
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