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

If you happen to be in New York City right now, you know that it's marathon week.

The flags are up, the streets are crowded with lots of people and random jogging suits. I just love the energy there.

I remember running in Central Park in 1996 on I think it was like Tuesday morning during marathon week and I didn't realize what a big deal that race was.

And I came home with like a Nike sweat towel and a fanny pack. They were just handing them out to get people excited for Sunday.

And now, here's a random side note, I still wish I had that fanny pack because they're so trendy now.

Anyway, it is a fun week in New York City and Anna Liptec is well aware of the momentous energy of that iconic race and has documented it in a brand new film called I'm Not a Runner.

In it, Anna traces the journey of five Australian women over 15 months as they go from not being a runner to crossing the New York City marathon finish line in 2018.

A fitness expert, a veteran of over 25 Marathons and a mother of two Anna lives in Adelaide, Australia.

So we thank her for getting up early to record this. So welcome Anna.

Thank you for having me do it. It's wonderful to be here on your show.

So I kind of gleaned two kids. I hope that's right. Is that right?

Yes, two kids. And they're kind of turning into adults now. One's 18 and one's 16. So they quite big now.

Okay, awesome. Well, so before we launch into I'm not a runner. We want to hear a little bit about yourself. How did you get started in the running world, Anna?

Well, as you said, Dimitri, I've been a fitness trainer now for 15 years and I've been training people. And I guess part of being a fitness trainer is setting goals for clients.

And I found that was a really the best way to motivate people and to get them, you know, really motivated to get out of bed.

So we started doing running events together and we started off small doing running events and my children are really quite small then like two or three.

And then we just kept challenging each other. And one day I was doing a 50 say six K event and we did a run walk with one of my running partner, who is one of my clients and also best friend now.

As you do through running because really good friends and at 56 K in this event, she said to me, do you think we could I could do a marathon?

So sure, absolutely, you could do a marathon and it started from there. And she, her name is Danielle Peacock. And she then undertook the London marathon. And from there, we challenged each other and we've now run over 25 marathons together.

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