Four First-Time Marathoners

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Daydreaming of registering for a marathon or in the thick of training? Wherever you fall on the marathon-spectrum (including “no way, no how!”), you’ll enjoy this episode. Hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat talk to four “regular” runners about their debut marathon pursuits. They cover topics such as: -their marathon motivations; -the satisfaction of setting and striving toward a goal; -how the run/walk method makes 26.2 attainable; -the “delicious pain” that comes with covering the miles; and, -the mountain of laundry generated during training! Before the first marathoner joins around 10:38, the hosts share about their first marathons—and Chicagoland’s “garbage hills!” Register for our Lake Placid retreat. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! GU for it: Get 20% off with code AMR2520 at GUenergy.com thru 6/30/25 Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on allIQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.2	Welcome to another mother runner.
0:50.5	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:52.2	I'm joined by Liz Waterstrat.
0:52.8	Hello, Liz.
0:54.1	Hi, Sarah. How goes it? Very hot. Very hot here today.
0:58.4	We are recording this on Tuesday, June 17th. And this morning, my husband just flew from Portland to Chicago.
1:09.0	He's going to spend the next two weeks in your fair state.
1:11.7	He's helping take care of an aunt down in Springfield, Illinois, while her husband is in
1:17.3	the hospital and she has early stage dementia.
1:20.1	So, yeah.
1:21.7	Anyway, but he sent me a screenshot of the weather forecast showing that it was going to be 97
1:27.2	a lot. And yet he's still like barely packed a
1:30.7	shorts so this morning at you know he was catching a 7 a.m. flight so we left the house at five and he's like
1:36.1	shoving a swimsuit and and some shorts into his back like yeah that's how it works guy you look at
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