How Runners Can Lessen Their Environmental Impact

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This is the episode for anyone who is curious how to become a “greener” runner: Hosts Sarah and Molly have an enlightening conversation with Keri Straughn, co-founder of the Low Impact Alliance and co-owner of Palmetto Running Company. This mother runner details: -how making small changes adds up to big differences; -what “plogging,” “greenwashing,” and “circularity” mean; -the environmental footprint of races; -the future of good-for-the-planet shoe manufacturing; and, -how to (easily) shop more responsibly for running gear. Molly details her return to running before the guest joins around 6:00. Listen all the way to the end to learn what book-related milestone Coach Liz reached—and her top three books in 2023—in Miles of Books. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Give the gift of stories: Get $10 off your first purchase at Storyworth.com/AMR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Story Worth for supporting another mother runner. Story Worth is a meaningful gift you and your family can treasure forever and you can get started right away.
0:08.0	Go to Storyworth.com slash AMR to get $10 off your first purchase.
0:13.0	Be sure to listen all the way to the end of this episode because
0:17.0	Coach Liz comes on for miles of books. Thank you. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boensche. I'm joined in
0:38.7	studio by Molly Williams and Augie. Hello. Hello, Sarah.
0:44.0	Welcome back from your retreat.
0:45.0	Yes, yes, it's been too long since we've seen each other, Molly.
0:48.0	I know, it has been a while.
0:49.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:50.0	So, in fact, you have made a return to running since we've seen each other last.
0:55.5	Yeah, sorta. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sort of. Yes, be proud. Be loud.
0:59.7	Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, a little walk run going on, so I've gotten up to running five blocks, walking one.
1:08.0	I'm...
1:09.0	Yeah, and I've done three miles. I'm slow as heck and I can't even believe how slow I am. I looked down at my watch and I'm like well no
1:18.0	surely this is the time and not my speed and yet it is and you're on military time because it's yeah I can't
1:29.2	believe it but it feels good to be outside and it feels good to be doing it again, but it doesn't feel the way it did.
1:37.0	Did you have that?
1:39.0	With your bionic knee.
1:40.0	Well, you know, and actually my left, which is a bionic one feels great it's my right one which I have some arthritis in that one too and I just I'm getting a little ouchy in it and my right one just I haven't gotten into kind of a rhythm with it I'm'm having, yeah, I'm having some soreness up in the
1:55.0	quad. It just feels like, like I think it's been compensating for so long for the left. I've got to like refigger
2:00.4	out of the run plus, it's been such a long time. But did you have any of that when you came back to running and not feeling
2:05.4	Oh my goodness the same or natural I don't remember much about my ankle with speaking of hardware That's why I mentioned that one first you know that I got all the pins on the plate I don't remember that one feeling because I'm not really not aware of my hardware in my ankle
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