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Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports. I'm Dimitie McDowell, co-founder of another MotherRunner.

Today, we're going to explore a post-race feeling. Nope, it's not that finish line bliss, but something that usually arrives the day or two after a race.

The post-race blues are simply defined, feelings of sadness, listlessness, emptiness after finishing an event.

It's also called post-achievement letdown and they can happen with any race distance or any race type. They aren't really dependent on whether or not the race went well or whether or not you met your goals.

They can kind of just ground you and hit you hard no matter what.

Today, we're talking with two women, Jody Edmonds, who ran her first marathon in October and was surprised by the sadness she felt after her very successful marathon debut.

Dr. Erin Eliya, a licensed psychologist who specializes in health and sports psychology and works at premier sports psychology in the Twin Cities area.

Jody is the mom of two teenagers. She's a high school teacher and lives in Eastern Pennsylvania, while Erin lives in my favorite city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is an endurance sports pro.

She's completed marathons, long distance triathlons, and is the co-founder of a really cool women cycling team in Minneapolis.

So excited to have you guys both on the team, actually, and on the podcast. So welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

So, Jody, let's start with you. So first, tell us about yourself as a runner. What got you started running and when did you start that kind of thing?

Okay. Well, I started running about five years after 9-11 happened. My neighbors at the time that lost their niece in 9-11.

And so they were doing a scholarship 5K run to raise money for a scholarship in her name. And I thought, well, sure, I'll do it because she asked and I wasn't into running at the time at all.

I had two very little children and I thought, sure, I had about five or six months before the race. So I was like, all right, well, any train for that. I did have a treadmill, but I never used it.

So I got on it and I went 3.2 miles and then I and then I or 3.1 miles and then I got on it again the next day and did it again and each day I would try to just do it faster than I did it the day before.

Wow.

You did that for six months to prepare for a 5K?

I did it.

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