Many Happy Miles: Many Happy Moments
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Join hosts Dimity McDowell and Sarah Wassner Flynn as they reflect on
the Many Happy Miles program, its vibrant community, and the inspiring
stories of members who’ve become better runners and people through their
participation. Dimity shares the origins of Many Happy Miles and how it
has grown over the past six years. Then, hear from current Many Happy
Miles members about how the program has positively impacted their lives,
including:
- Jenna Molster & Ellen Harr, two best running friends who met through Many Happy Miles;
- Kate Barbier, who shares how the strength training baked into Many Happy Miles has complemented her running; and,
- Amy Davis, who reconnected with
- running (and even got a PR!) after a challenging four-year break, thanks
- to the support of Many Happy Miles.
Throughout the episode, hear from other MHM members who share their highlights from the year.
Feeling inspired to join Many Happy Miles in 2025? Registration is still open—don’t miss out on the chance to be part of this supportive community!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to many happy miles where we celebrate all sorts of forward movement, whether it's running 20.25 miles or getting some fun drinks and apps together to watch the ball drop tonight and start our new year. |
| 0:21.8 | We are here for it. I'm Dimmody McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm Sarah Waster Flynn, and I'm saying yay to 2025, first of all, and also to many happy |
| 0:34.2 | Miles, which is our podcast's namesake. Gosh, it's hard to believe another year is |
| 0:39.5 | winding down with this amazing program that you started like some six years ago, Dimmity. So has it |
| 0:45.3 | felt like it's been that long or does it feel like yesterday when you launched it? A little bit of both |
| 0:51.0 | in the best way, right? So we launched it in 2019 and we planned it in 2018. |
| 0:57.6 | And so we're coming into our seventh year of doing many happy miles. And so like that planning |
| 1:03.7 | meeting feels like, you know, it could have been yesterday. And but then I think about seven years. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm like, that's a long time. There are times, |
| 1:13.7 | in many happy miles, we're going to talk about it quite a bit, but you get fresh strength |
| 1:17.6 | circuit, fresh workouts every month, fresh challenge. And sometimes, coming into our seventh |
| 1:23.6 | year, I'm going to admit, the fresh part can be part of a challenge for me, but that's the |
| 1:28.6 | fun thing, right? To think of new ways to package workouts, new ways to think about strength. |
| 1:33.8 | You know, I mean, because there's basically like structures and things that we're going to, you know, |
| 1:37.1 | always have the fundamentals, but it's fun to kind of play around with it a little bit and keep it |
| 1:40.8 | interesting. Yeah. Well, you do such a good job with those workouts, I have to say. |
| 1:46.2 | And I don't know if you ever shared this story on any podcast before, but I think if you |
| 1:51.7 | have it bears repeating. |
| 1:53.2 | So how did you come up with the concept of many happy miles? |
| 1:57.0 | Well, so two things. |
| 1:58.9 | We used to sign when we, when Sarah and I did a bunch of like marathon expos, |
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