Runners, Don’t Let Cancer Steal Your Joy
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Whether you’ve had a cancer diagnosis or not, this episode will move and inspire you. Two women runners who fought cancer in 2022 share with Sarah and Liz how they keep moving forward. Revelations include:
-the power of a sweat-session after surgery or treatment;
-how skills honed through athletics helped them fight cancer;
-both guests’ reliance on strength training, especially core work; and,
-ways to find and recognize joy.
In the intro, Sarah shares a running accomplishment and one of her proudest moments ever. The first cancer survivor joins at about 8:40.
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| 1:06.8 | Welcome to another MotherRunner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined by Liz Waterstrot. Hello, Liz. |
| 1:13.0 | Hi, Sarah. How are you? I'm good. Good. How are you? |
| 1:18.3 | Good. I'm feeling a wee bit proud of myself. For the second day in a row, I've run three nonstop |
| 1:25.2 | miles. Yes, I ran three and a half nonstop miles, which is a big deal for me after my |
| 1:31.4 | bulging disc for a year. Then I remembered that Brittney, my personal trainer, had said that it's |
| 1:39.9 | important to occasionally push distance or push pace. Yesterday I pushed the distance a little. |
| 1:46.0 | So today I put on some Betty Who music and dug a little deeper and ran my first sub 10-minute |
| 1:53.2 | mile in more than a year. Yes, I was very excited because I tell you man, coming back to this |
| 2:00.8 | running thing, it is challenging and my endurance was just in the pooper. It was not there when I |
| 2:08.9 | started trying to come back from it. So to be able to push a little felt very good. Good. |
| 2:16.4 | Just let go of the expectations and remember, you are a blank slate. I find when people come back to |
| 2:24.8 | running, they're always comparing who they are now to who they were. It's just not a very helpful |
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