Callie Vinson, Indigenous Ultrarunner Who Lost 200 Pounds
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Folks looking to lose weight, run an ultramarathon, or be otherwise inspired, this is the episode for you! Guest Callie Vinson, an indigenous ultrarunner who lost 200 pounds at the start of her running journey. With hosts Sarah and Liz, Callie shares:
-the small steps she took to lose 200 pounds;
-the sustainable relationship she’s forged with food;
-how she uses selfies on Instagram to help heal herself;
-her fascination with 200-mile running races; and,
-details of running in her first Western States 100 ultra.
In the intro, Coach Liz shares her perhaps surprising pandemic project. Callie hops on around 9:05.
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| 0:52.5 | Welcome to another MotherRunner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today by Liz |
| 0:57.1 | Waterstrat. Hello, Liz. Hi, Sarah. How are you doing? I'm doing well. How's |
| 1:03.2 | everything in Portland? Oh, it's good. It's good. Can I share my latest found change |
| 1:09.6 | thrill with you? Oh, I've been waiting. I've been sitting here waiting. So all right, |
| 1:16.9 | so you know, I have found lots of change out on runs, but I had a first over the weekend. |
| 1:22.9 | I found change while I was swimming in the pond. Okay, you're going to have to explain that one. |
| 1:29.9 | So at the pond where I swim, there's a man made, a human made, sandy beach, and then there's also |
| 1:38.6 | two kind of docs, not quite big enough word. I don't know, just outcroppings where people |
| 1:46.7 | can go fishing. And from one of those, there's a couple stairs that go down into the pond, |
| 1:51.1 | and they're made of cement. And so as I was coming out of the pond, I was walking up those |
| 1:56.4 | stairs and there's two or three of them. I looked at them like, that's either a bottle cap or a |
| 2:02.9 | quarter. Oh, it was, it was a quarter. And then on the first step out of the water was a bright |
| 2:09.7 | Chinese penny. Wow. Yeah, you sound thrilled, I can tell. It's unusual and only you would spot that. |
| 2:18.0 | It's right. And then, and then the very next day, and almost the exact same spot, there was |
| 2:23.0 | another quarter. So I think I missed it from somebody's leaving you but drums. So, so that was |
| 2:32.2 | very exciting, particularly because I had a very, very weak June. I only found 41 cents. So |
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