AMR Trains #29: Running Races One Year into Pandemic
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
While it's still unclear when and how a major marathon will happen, smaller running races are blooming all over the country.
Dimity checks in with two race directors in two states: John Mortimer, founder of Millenium Running in Bedford, New Hampshire, and Karen Lechtenberg, a race director of five events and a full-time teacher in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The three discuss:
—What March 2020 felt like—and how Cinco de Mayo became Cinco de Julio
—Best practices for race day from a race director and runner's perspective;
—The silver linings that COVID-19 brought to road racing (PR's galore!);
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| 0:00.0 | Step up to a Nordic Track Treadmill with iFIT. |
| 0:03.1 | I fit control speed, incline, and decline, which means the treadmill automatically mimics |
| 0:07.8 | the changing terrain on the screen or adjust the speed to the trainer's cues without |
| 0:11.9 | you having to touch a thing. |
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| 0:28.9 | Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Dimitie McDowell, co-founder of another Mother Runner. |
| 0:36.8 | As a number of vaccinations increase and the weather becomes more amenable to outdoor events, |
| 0:42.2 | road racing is coming back slowly. |
| 0:44.2 | Sarah and I talked to running USA CEO Donna Stone a few weeks ago, and today I'm going |
| 0:49.2 | to talk with two people who have their running souls on the ground, so to speak. |
| 0:54.4 | I've got two race directors from opposites parts of the country, both geographically and |
| 1:00.0 | COVID regulation wise. |
| 1:02.4 | They both put on races during the pandemic. |
| 1:05.4 | So joining me today is John Mortimer, the founder of Millennium Running, an events timing |
| 1:11.4 | and retail store in Bedford, New Hampshire, and Millennium Running has produced over 30 |
| 1:16.6 | events since the beginning of the pandemic, probably closer to 40 now, right John? |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, we have, Dimitie, we sure have. |
| 1:24.0 | Nice. |
| 1:25.0 | All right, so John is the father of two boys, and then Karen Lechtenberg is also joining |
| 1:29.2 | us. |
| 1:30.2 | Karen is a race director of five events in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. |
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