Many Happy Miles: Marathons, Mom Guilt, and the Myth of the Supermom

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How do you stay present as a parent while pursuing a high level of fitness? Is the idea of a “super mom” just a myth? These are just two of the myriad topics Dimity and Sarah WF touch on in this conversation with Diana Cohen—an associate professor of political science at Central Connecticut State University and author of an ongoing study on Iron Moms (AKA women who pursue Ironman triathlons as a hobby while balancing family and career). The hosts bring Diana on the podcast to broaden her scope of her study to mother runners, too, and to talk about: Diana's background as a triathlete and how she blended her passion for endurance sports with social science; Her studies of both "Iron Dads" and "Iron Moms" and the biggest differences between the genders; The pervasiveness of mom guilt and what we can do about it; The myth of the "Super Mom" and the role social media plays in perpetuating that myth, and more. Read Sarah's piece on Diana's study that recently ran on Triathlete.com . If you're training for an Ironman, have a child or children 12 or under, and you're interested in participating in the study, you can contact Diana via email. Join us in Many Nutritious Miles; we start February 19! When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Find your favorite: Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code TOPOAMR2024 at topoathletic.com Live a more empowered life: For 10% off your first month, go to betterhelp.com/amr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	Whether it's a week of workouts in a hotel gym, like I'm headed to, or 11 strong miles as Sarah Wasner Flynn just ran this weekend.
0:56.7	We're here to say yay to it all. I'm Dimmity McDowell co-founder of another mother
1:01.3	runner and I'm Sarah Wasser Flynn and I am saying yeah, yeah, to those 11 miles because to be honest I was not feeling them and I was woke up pretty stuffy.
1:11.6	I have a cold and I I was going to bail. And then I kept thinking all my
1:15.9	mantras and all my like, okay, you just get up in one foot in front of the other and I got
1:20.6	it done and I still feel not so great, but you know, I got it done and I still feel not so great but you know I got 11 miles in that Boston bank so
1:27.5	Yay to that 11 miles in the Boston bank. We just need a couple more to go. A couple more months of miles.
1:33.8	Yes, yeah. So, awesome. Well, so Sarah, you are not just a podcast co-host and a
1:39.5	track coach and a mom of four. You also are a writer as well on the side, one of your many hats you wear,
1:46.4	and you recently wrote an article for Triathlete magazine, so you want to tell us about it?
1:51.1	Sure, yeah. Well this was a really interesting article for me.
1:55.0	I interviewed a professor from Central Connecticut College
2:00.0	named Diana Tracy Cohen.
2:02.0	Actually, my editor, Susan Lac, at Triathlete,
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