Chris McDougall + Born to Run 2
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This is the ideal episode for you if you’re ramping up for a race or coming back from injury or pregnancy. Along with hosts Sarah and Molly, famed author Chris McDougall (his newest book, Born to Run 2, was just released!) covers a range of topics, including:
-why he wrote a follow-up to his smash hit Born to Run;
-why folks should aim to run well, not necessarily fast or far;
-the remarkable power of fat-focused meals;
-the encouraging news about muscle memory; and,
-how to stop dreading workouts.
In the intro, the hosting duo talks about Sarah’s latest aqua adventure; they also talk with the guest about swimming after he joins at 8:02.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today in studio |
| 0:14.1 | by Molly Williams. Hello Molly. Hello Sarah. So good to see you. So good to see you too. |
| 0:19.0 | It's been too long. I've been traveling too much. You have been and you've got a lot going |
| 0:22.4 | on with the kids getting ready for college. I do. I do any day now. We'll hear whether |
| 0:26.6 | or not, Daphne, my 17-year-old twin daughter got into Occidental, down in Los Angeles. And |
| 0:32.6 | then every day, there seems to be news trickling in about John and his various BFA programs |
| 0:38.2 | that he is applying to. Yeah. Well, whatever happens, it's going to be good. Yes. Yes. It's |
| 0:43.4 | just very exciting. Then poor John gets a notification that he's got a message from |
| 0:48.4 | the school. And then he, you know, terror seizes him. And then so he walks away from his |
| 0:52.4 | friends. And sometimes it's good news. Sometimes it's not good news. So have kids started |
| 0:57.1 | getting letters. So then I'm like, do people even get letters anymore? But I guess they get |
| 1:02.5 | notifications, you know, electronic Christmas, isn't it? Well, so Daphne will find out by |
| 1:07.0 | December 15th and he'll he's definitely finding out about because this is for BFA programs. |
| 1:12.6 | This is just an invitation to the next stage of auditions. He will not. There's a few schools |
| 1:17.8 | that let kids know now for BFA programs, but by and large, I mean, like he got an invitation |
| 1:23.3 | from Fordham Alvin Ailey to go to the next step with the dance BFA and same with Carnegie Mellon |
| 1:30.6 | and the musical theater BFA, which he was very thrilled about. Great. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. |
| 1:35.8 | Yes. So I was trying to deal with all of this from 2,000 miles away when I was in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:42.5 | Yeah. And his concern, everything was due December 1st. And so he called me an absolute |
| 1:47.7 | panic on November 29th. And I could literally feel it causing stress in my back. Sure. |
| 1:53.7 | And it was weird. I am not a person who sees myself as a person who feels stress like |
| 1:59.4 | manifesting in my body. Oh, no, I've changed my opinion on that one. But I got to swim in |
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