Gaining Entry to Big-Name Marathons

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Anyone with the goal to run a marathon, especially a renowned one like New York City, London, or Chicago, will be intrigued and enlightened by this episode. The guests, RaceRaves founders Katie Ho and Mike Sohaskey, talk with hosts (+ multi-time marathoners) Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton about: -the “scarcity mindset” of marathon entries; -the various factors adding to the popularity of big marathons; -running the Abbott World Marathon Majors; -which marathon is under consideration as the 7th Major; and, -advice on completing a marathon in all 50 states. Before the RaceRaves duo joins around 10:56, Tish tells of the sure-to-be-epic hiking adventure she’s embarking on. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Run Richmond: Use code AMR2VA for $10 off marathon or half at RichmondMarathon.org Insoles for all your active pursuits: Use code AMR15 for 15% discount at Currex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for the support of the Allian's Richmond Marathon, which also features the
0:04.2	Carmax Richmond Half Marathon and VCO Health Richmond 8K, all on November 16.
0:09.1	These scenic races are known for their amazing core support and downhill finish. Use code AMR 2 VA for $10 off the full or half
0:16.8	marathon at Richmond marathon.org.
0:20.3	Thanks to Curax, the number one insult at running specialty stores for its continued support of another mother runner.
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0:30.0	For 15% off, visit curex.com and use by Tish Hamilton.
0:55.0	Hello Tish.
0:56.0	Hello Sarah, how are you?
0:58.0	Good, I hear you got a big adventure coming up.
1:00.0	I have a big adventure coming up, not this Friday, but next Friday. My partner
1:06.1	Rick and I are headed up to North Georgia to hike on the southernmost part of the Appalachian
1:11.7	Trail.
1:16.7	Wow, and how long will this trek be?
1:22.3	We are going for, well, it's, uh, so we're backpacking and we're going,'s I think it's like 50 miles and we have
1:26.2	blocked out six days in which to do it so and it could take longer and it could take longer it could take shorter.
1:34.0	Okay and has Rick been the driver behind all this or how to come about?
1:39.0	Yes.
1:41.0	Yes. Yes. So I was thinking about this when Rick and I first started dating it was one of the first
1:49.2	things we did was went backpacking and it's kind of how we knew each other in the way back machine and I
1:54.4	reached out to him and to chat about backpacking among other things and long story
2:00.0	short but he's he's backpacked for a long time and I thought I'd like to do it so we have
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