Midway Toward a Big Goal

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Anyone in pursuit of a big goal or in the middle of a long training cycle needs to listen to this episode. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin, four women who are halfway to achieving their goal—including a half-marathon in every state or running all the World Marathon Majors—share: -how they dreamed up their goal; -their approach to ticking off milestones along the way; -the joys and stand-out memories from their pursuits; -how they maintain their motivation; and, -how they see themselves reaching the “finish line.” Instead of intro chitchat, co-host Amanda acts as a guest, telling tales of summitting 24 of the Adirondack’s 46 highest peaks. Join our Lake Placid retreat. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Run ’round Portland! Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at portlandmarathon.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Head out here to the Rose City to take part in the Portland Marathon on October 5th.
0:05.2	The Marathon, Half Marathon, and 10K all showcase this beautiful, friendly, funky city.
0:10.9	Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at Portlandmarathon.com. Welcome to another mother runner.
0:27.2	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:28.6	I'm joined by Amanda Loudon.
0:30.5	Hello, and welcome back to regular life, Amanda.
0:33.4	Oh, thank you.
0:34.2	I can't say I'm happy to be back to regular life, but here I am.
0:38.9	Well, I get to relive it a little bit because you are part and parcel of the topic and you're the inspiration for it because today we're talking about being midway toward a big goal.
0:53.1	So you, as you know, Amanda headed off to the Adirondacks, your beloved Adirondacks
0:58.4	once again to summit more peaks.
1:03.6	And so I'll get into that in a sec.
1:06.2	But I'm just always fascinated by people who strive for big multi-part goals.
1:11.5	And I also just figured that some listeners would be about midway through training for a fall race.
1:18.1	So they might appreciate hearing from other gals going for a goal and, you know,
1:21.9	how they keep their foot on the gas and all that stuff.
1:24.4	So you have a quest, Amanda, as you know, to be a 46er, to summit all 46 of the high peaks in New York State's Adirondack Park.
1:35.4	And you just bagged more peaks last week. So we are going to talk to three women, one after after another about being roughly halfway to their
1:44.3	pursuits, such as running a half marathon in every state or running the world marathon majors.
1:49.2	But I wanted to start with you, Amanda, being in the guest hot seat.
1:55.0	So tell us where you are in the goal and what you did last week to build upon the goal. Yes. So last week I got over the hump.
2:04.7	I am now 24 mountains under my belt. So I have 22 to go. And that was pretty exciting and felt
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