AMR Trains #6: A DIY Marathon: What to Do with Cancelled Races

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On a Thursday morning in early March, Meghan Vanasek, a mother of four in Durham, NC, got news that the Tobacco Road Marathon, her first 26.2, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 situation. On Saturday morning, Meghan ran her own marathon. Dimity chats with Meghan about:

· The conflicting emotions she had when her race was canceled;

· The alternatives she considered before plotting her own race;

· How she set up her route and aid stations;

· What helped her get through the tough miles;

· And why this race, “was not at all what [she] envisioned, but in some ways, was better.”

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0:11.2	Save 20% off any win products on Amazon using code AMR go win.
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0:20.0	Again, the code on Amazon is AMR Go win, AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports.
0:44.2	I'm Dimity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:47.6	Today we're talking about what everyone else is talking about, the coronavirus.
0:52.4	So far, the pandemic has been the cause of
0:54.3	countless running races, cycling events, and early season triathlons being
0:58.7	postponed or cancelled. I just got an email the one that says that we're monitoring the situation from
1:05.0	Iron Horse the bike ride that I'm supposed to do in late May in Colorado and my heart
1:09.4	sunk a little bit I totally get it but it's still hard to know that that thingy but anticipating might or definitely will not happen.
1:18.0	There are plenty of options though, and today we want to talk through one of them with Megan, oh gosh Megan I should Vanisek is that how you
1:25.2	I got it I got it okay I got all your other details
1:29.4	and then all right Megan is a mother of four. She's got a 10 year old, a 7 and a half year old and 4 year old twins and her family lives in Dura North, and she was already to run the tobacco
1:45.2	road marathon when it was canceled. Making lemons out of lemonade, Megan took on
1:50.7	her own 26.2 on a Saturday morning and is here to tell us how she did it.
1:56.2	So welcome Megan.
1:57.6	Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
1:59.8	Well, and so, first of all, we have to say that we shared your post, you are, you were in the
2:05.2	Tranlika Mother 26.2 go the distance program.
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