MHM: Gill Watson

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Listen to this episode if you need an injection of inspiration to go after a big adventure in 2024. After a quick catch-up, hosts Dimity and Sarah WF welcome Gill Watson, a mother runner and fitness instructor from the UK. Gill has a fascinating story of adventuring around the world that began 20 years ago when she won a reality show on the BBC in Borneo. Since then, she’s competed in far-flung places including the Arctic Circle, and was even on Ninja Warrior UK. Hear how Gill plans to celebrate turning 60 this year in the most extreme way—and why she’ll never consider her age as a hindrance to her fitness or her future plans. Register for Many Happy Miles 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Many Happy Miles and 2024.
0:15.0	This podcast celebrates all types of forward movement, whether it's a run to kick off our brand
0:20.0	new year of 2024 or maybe just a gentle walk or a nap or a yoga session to kind of
0:26.8	welcome in the new year in a lovely way. We're here to say yay to all of it. I'm Dimmity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:35.6	And I'm Sarah Wester Flynn and Dimmity today I'm saying yay to the new year. Happy
0:41.7	New Year. Let's start this year off right.
0:44.3	I love all those ideas that you had.
0:46.6	Gensselblah, wonderful.
0:48.8	I'm sitting here wet after track practice and freezing and thawing out so I'll take anything warm like a
0:54.7	son session that's how I'd like to kick off the new year. Yeah yeah wait so you so you
1:00.3	it's the it's actually the 26th right now of December, like, you know, spoiler alert.
1:05.6	So you had track practice this morning the day after Christmas?
1:09.1	Yeah, it's 9 a.m.
1:10.3	So no, no rest for the weary. I definitely have like a Christmas hangover right now. I stayed up way too late
1:16.8	We got back from my family and celebrating last night and I decided I'd stay up to watch lessons in chemistry on
1:25.9	Apple TV and all the sudden it was 1.30 in the morning I was like I got to get up so
1:31.3	yes I'm a little retired but the rest of the day should be pretty relaxed. We're still kind of on break here so you know not many much going on.
1:38.6	Yeah so holidays are good but charging forward to the new year and looking forward to all things fun ahead.
1:45.0	Nice, nice. With lessons in chemistry, was it worth the sleep deprivation?
1:49.0	Oh my god, well of course I fell asleep. I'm trying to I'm reading the book
1:53.4	Okay. I know a lot of people read it last year
1:56.9	I was on a trip last week so I read most of it on the plane I have like
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