Hiking + Trail Running Adventures with Three Women

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Anyone who likes trail running—or is interested in exploring hiking after their running career—this is an episode for you. Special guest host Dimity McDowell talks with three women who recently joined her in northern Minnesota to take on the Grand Traverse, a multi-distance trail event. The conversations include how: -one woman found grace for herself with not being able to run as she'd hoped; —one a trail runner uncovered the courage to tackle trails solo; —the unexpected heat grounded one woman; and, —doing something challenging, especially as you get older, is always a great call. If you'd like to be alerted to our 2026 hiking adventures, please share your email here. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code AMRfall2025 at topoathletic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Topo Athletic for supporting AMR.
0:02.5	Topo Athletic creates products that embrace the body's natural biomechanics and avoid gimmicky design features.
0:08.1	Save 15% at Topoathletic.com with code AMR Fall 2025.
0:24.8	Hey, it's Sarah.
0:28.7	This is a special episode hosted by Dimity McDowell.
0:36.8	Dimity's going to be talking with three women who joined her in Duluth, Minnesota, recently, to hike the Grand Traverse event.
0:38.3	Enjoy their stories. And next week, Tish Hamilton and I will be talking with Kira Damado, Mother Runner,
0:43.7	and Pro Runner about her new book, Don't Call It a Comeback.
0:53.7	Welcome to a special edition of AMR's Friday podcast.
0:58.3	I'm Dimity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner, and I'm your only host today,
1:03.2	filling in for Sarah Bowen-Shay.
1:05.1	So I hope you like my molyflua's voice.
1:08.3	I think that's how you say it.
1:10.8	Anyway, I do have a fabulous show for you today. We're headed to the beautiful superior
1:15.0	hiking trail to talk about the Grand Traverse, an event in early October near Duluth, Minnesota.
1:22.2	Minnesota. The trail race has a multitude of distances, 10 miles, 17 miles, 21 miles, and 27 miles.
1:29.9	And you can run or hike it, which makes it both very inclusive and one event that is challenging to all.
1:37.6	The superior hiking trail, as the race director bluntly put it, is quote unquote, not manicured and has plenty of elevation gain and loss.
1:47.2	Even the 10-mile hike starts with a mile climb and gains over 1,500 feet in 10 miles.
1:54.3	Long-time listeners may remember that I did the 21-mile event in 2022 with a group of girlfriends.
2:00.0	And I was inspired by how much type two fun I had that year.
2:03.6	So I wanted to bring the joy and the dirt to another mother runner. We had a group of about
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