Lauren Fleshman on Perfectionism, Grit, Hormones, + Her New Book
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This is the episode to listen to if you want a smart, candid conversation about issues related to women runners: It features coach, activist, and former pro runner Lauren Fleshman, who is also the author of the phenomenal new book, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World. In a wide-ranging discussion with hosts Sarah and Ellison, Lauren shares:
-about her bout with depression during the lockdown;
-how to avoid injuries—and come back from them;
-how words can affect running performance;
-what her amazing finishing kicks felt like; and,
-the “invisibility” of women past a certain age.
In the intro, Ellison shares what she’s reading and Sarah admits she overdid it on a recent walk-run. Lauren hops on around 7:00.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another Mother Runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined by Ellison Weast. Hello, Ellison. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, Sarah. How are you? I am well and I hope you are. |
| 0:20.0 | I am. I am. I had to get over a little hinky walking for a while because I overdid it on my second outing of walk run intervals. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh no. |
| 0:33.0 | It just felt so good and it was a Saturday and I didn't have any time constraints. |
| 0:39.0 | And so I was out for an hour and I just mixed in too much running to it. I stretched the running intervals out. |
| 0:46.0 | I passed two or three blocks to four or five blocks. And so I was a little hinky on Saturday and into Sunday. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, lesson learned. I guess. Yes. Yes. And thanks for telling us. |
| 1:01.0 | Yes. And fear put back into me so that let's see on. So then on, I guess on Monday, all the time since then, I've done half an hour. |
| 1:12.0 | So that that seems more reasonable and kept it to two or occasionally three blocks. |
| 1:17.0 | Smart. Yeah. And they're short blocks. They're east, west blocks. |
| 1:20.0 | I remember. |
| 1:22.0 | And keeping me company on it is a new audio book that I started listening to. It is the latest from Richard Osman, I think. |
| 1:35.0 | Yes. It's the latest installment in the Thursday murder club series. It's called the bullet that missed. Yes. I read it. |
| 1:42.0 | Oh, you read it already. My goodness. You are just you're on it. I can't get anything by. |
| 1:47.0 | But you're listening to the audio. Yes. And it is the one of the narrators is Fiona Shaw, who is an actor. I just adore. |
| 1:56.0 | I love her. Love her. So she plays that duplicitous boss on killing Eve. If folks don't immediately recognize her name. |
| 2:03.0 | And as I was listening, I didn't see who was the narrator. I didn't, I guess I skipped past that part when they introduced. |
| 2:11.0 | And I'm like, wait, wait, I really like this person. Who is this person? And then I could slowly say, I'm like, |
| 2:17.0 | but sometimes she doesn't play a good person like I had all these feelings for where I can remember. |
| 2:23.0 | She must dishy voice the XMI five. Oh, yes. Elizabeth. Yes. Yes. |
| 2:30.0 | She does the whole thing. Oh, my gosh. She was just doing an American accent. Oh, it's just slipped into it so casually. |
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