Run or Hike, 10 to 27 Miles: the Grand Traverse Explained
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Attention adventure lovers: Give a listen to this episode about the Grand Traverse, a single-day trail event in Duluth, MN, that lets you choose the distance you cover and at what pace you want to go (hiking or running). Coach Dimity McDowell and three 2025 Grand Traverse participants join hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat to share details and highlights of this epic undertaking, including:
-the training involved for a one-day hiking or running event
-how hiking 21 miles stacks up to running a half-marathon
-essential nutrition and hydration strategies for success
-the power of companionship on the trail
-the awe-inspiring beauty of hard-won vistas
Sarah shares a story about a recent “nature event” involving a swarm of rogue honeybees before Coach Dimity joins around 14:00.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm hoping you've heard. Feisty Media and another mother runner have merged. And our first |
| 0:05.4 | athletic step together is the Grand Traverse, an epic trail adventure happening October 3rd, 26 in beautiful |
| 0:12.6 | Duluth, Minnesota. In this choose-your-own-adventure format event, you pick your distance from 10 to 27 miles |
| 0:19.1 | and whether you want to hike or to run it. |
| 0:21.8 | Whatever you choose, you'll be supported from your first step to the finish line by an incredible |
| 0:26.5 | community of goal-oriented women led by AMR's very own Dimity McDowell and Christy Scott, |
| 0:32.5 | along with Feisty's Celine Yeager. |
| 0:34.7 | Sign up today to get a comprehensive training program and virtual group |
| 0:38.2 | coaching plus group activities and support in Duluth. Head to feisty.co slash events and look for |
| 0:43.8 | the Grand Traverse to grab your spot today. That's feisty.com slash events. Use code AMR 20 to get |
| 0:50.9 | $20 off when you register. Again, that's code AMR 20 to get $20 off. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm joined today by my co-host |
| 1:12.2 | Elizabeth Waterstratt. Liz, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Had an interesting |
| 1:19.0 | weekend, which I dubbed a nature event here in the city of Portland. And so I'm going to share it with you because it was quite |
| 1:31.0 | unusual, at least for this city slicker. So my son John and my 20-year-old son is in town for a few |
| 1:38.3 | weeks. And so he and I were all set to walk to my gym. And I step outside to get my running shoes. |
| 1:46.6 | And I hear this very loud buzzing noise. |
| 1:48.9 | And I turn and there above our garage is a massive, massive swarm of bees. |
| 1:55.3 | Like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of bees. |
| 1:58.9 | And I'm like, oh my gosh. |
| 2:00.9 | So I do, I've run back inside and John's upstairs getting ready, but I want him to come |
| 2:06.7 | downstairs immediately, but I don't want him to think that like I'm having a heart |
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