AMR Trains #36: Swim, Bike, Run: A 70.3 Triathlon Race Report
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dimity chats with Laurel Short and Tiffany Cross, two Kansas-City based triathletes and best running friends, who conquered Des Moines Ironman 70.3 in late June.
In this extra long race report, the trio cover:
—The importance of having a training partner for accountability (especially in a pandemic year!);
—How Laurel, a first-time triathlete, tackled open water swimming–and getting into her wet suit;
—How Tiffany mentally pushed herself during her bike workouts to prep for race day;
—And how the pair reset on race day, when rain canceled a big portion of the bike.
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| 0:17.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Dimitri McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:37.8 | What do we endurance athletes like more than a long run in 50 degree temperatures in the morning |
| 0:44.1 | coming home to a stack of pancakes lovingly made by our family, followed by a long nap with no |
| 0:50.9 | interruptions, a race report, of course. And since we are still just grooving on the excitement |
| 0:57.2 | and newness of being back at in-person races, we're going to have an extra long race report today. |
| 1:02.8 | We have two Kansas City-based mothers today, Laurel and Tiffany, who recently raised the |
| 1:08.7 | Des Moines 70.3, which is a half Iron Man triathlon for those of you that might not know what a 70.3 is. |
| 1:16.3 | Both have two kids under the age of 10. Both are experienced runners, but I'm going to let each of you |
| 1:23.7 | kind of introduce yourself first. So give us a little background and Laurel, you can go first. |
| 1:29.7 | Thank you so much for having us to meet. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:33.2 | Well, I am, as you said, a mother runner in the Kansas City area. I'm a nurse practitioner |
| 1:39.7 | by profession. I'm married and I have two children. My son just finished second grade and my daughter |
| 1:45.8 | was starting kindergarten in the fall. Very excited to have them both at the same school and to be |
| 1:50.7 | graduating from daycare. I started running actually kind of at the end of high school just |
| 1:58.6 | recreationally. And so I don't consider myself, you know, I didn't consider myself an athlete growing |
| 2:05.4 | up, but I'm not considered myself an athlete as an adult. We're in my first half marathon in college |
| 2:10.9 | with my dad. My dad was the one that got me into running and then just kind of got the bug from |
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