EP 669: Safety, Innovating Runner Security
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
What are some of your biggest fears when running alone? How can technology transform your running experience into a safer, more connected journey? Discover the answer with Dena Lewis and the innovative Running Mate app in this episode of Trail Runner Nation. Dena Lewis is the visionary founder and CEO of Running Mate. She shares her personal journey through the challenges of harassment and assault while running, a journey that sparked the creation of the innovative Running Mate app, a real-time solution for runner safety and companionship. To add some perspective, one of Don's daughters, Alyssa, joins as she is preparing for her first marathon. Find out more about her business, Blues Beauty Bar or listen to her podcast Estheticians Unhinged
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| 0:00.0 | When this isn't in the headlines anymore, it's still an issue for women every single day. |
| 0:07.6 | So when these stories get forgotten or get passed until the next story, for us, we still |
| 0:13.5 | live with it every day. |
| 0:14.8 | So we still have to keep it in the headlines for ourselves. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the Trailhead of Trail Runner Nation. |
| 0:32.8 | We go on virtual trail runs with guests that are going to inspire us. |
| 0:36.9 | They're going to motivate us. |
| 0:38.4 | They're going to teach us how to be better runners and hopefully better human beings. |
| 0:44.3 | Scott, did you know that 92% of women feel concerned about their safety when they're out running? |
| 0:51.1 | Today, we're going to talk about solutions for that very problem. |
| 0:54.5 | And today, joining us by daughters on this episode, Scott, on this week's run, |
| 0:59.1 | Don, we're going to run with a piece of gear that I don't have yet. |
| 1:02.8 | I ordered it, but I haven't got it. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm hoping that we get it before we go out on our Saturday morning run. |
| 1:09.2 | But it is the Zephyr runner wind shell. |
| 1:12.8 | And I got it in the new mountain print. |
| 1:17.4 | And we talked about that mountain print before. |
| 1:20.0 | It is freaking amazing. |
| 1:22.0 | I guarantee you, once I have this Zephyr wind shell on, people are going to be stopping us. |
| 1:28.3 | We're not going to be doing a lot of running because people are going to stop us and say, |
| 1:31.8 | Hey, where did you get that cool looking wind shell? |
| 1:36.3 | Is that your strategy, Scott? |
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