AMR Trains: The Hard Decision to Quit Running
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
If you're dealing with chronic injuries—or just feeling burnt out—this episode about whether or not to quit running will resonate with you. Dimity talks to Elise Wallace, an accomplished runner and triathlete, about being sidelined from running.
The duo talk about:
—how, after two-year break from running, Elise started with a 15-second run and worked up a half marathon;
—filling the void of running when you're injured;
—the mental hurdle of separating past results from current reality; and
—how one pro runner's perspective has helped Elise think about her next chapter.
Plus, Anne Hinrichs and Emily Fischer, the two Nordic skiers from the January 18th episode, update us on their Birkebeiner and Korteloppet finishes.
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| 0:38.0 | Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training for and racing in endurance sports. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Dimitri McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:48.0 | As most of you listeners know, I stopped running over two years ago, |
| 0:52.0 | which was about two years after a doctor told me I should consider not running anymore. |
| 0:56.0 | I had a perfect storm of injuries, including chronic hamstring issues and lower back pain. |
| 1:02.0 | But that wasn't the beginning of it all. |
| 1:04.0 | Over the course of my nearly 20 year running career, I'm pretty sure I had more injuries than I had PRs. |
| 1:10.0 | I was just one of those runners who was constantly playing whack-a-mole with my body. |
| 1:14.0 | A stress fraction would heal and my hip would act up. |
| 1:18.0 | My knee would get better and an aroma on my foot would appear. |
| 1:22.0 | So in the interest of my own mental health and being able to be active for decades to come, |
| 1:26.0 | I reluctantly and pretty emotionally gave it up. |
| 1:30.0 | I wrote a feature story about it called The True Finish Line |
| 1:34.0 | for the Winter 2022 issue of Women's Running magazine. |
| 1:38.0 | Unfortunately, it's behind a paywall, so we can't link to it here. |
| 1:42.0 | But I did get some really nice supportive comments from those who had it opportunity to read it. |
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