Running a Race with a Pacer
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Whatever your goal, if you are considering using a pacer in a race, you need to listen to this episode. Host Sarah Bowen Shea talks with four women (including co-host Amanda Loudin!) about their experiences (good and bad) running a race with a pace group. They discuss:
-various reasons to use a pacer;
-how to get the best results with a pace group;
-different ways to utilize a pacer; and,
-why a race pacer isn’t necessarily a magical PR-maker.
Sarah shares a quick story about a scummy swim before talking to Amanda about her pacer experiences at about 6:11. This episode originally aired on September 30, 2022.
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| 0:44.2 | This episode originally ran on September 30th, 2020. |
| 0:48.3 | I figure some of you might be debating using a pacer for a fall race, and if nothing else, I know I love listening to our episodes that have multiple regular women runners on it. |
| 0:54.6 | Enjoy! Music! I love listening to our episodes that have multiple regular women runners on it. Enjoy. |
| 1:05.2 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Sham, joined by Amanda Loudon. Hello, Amanda. |
| 1:27.5 | Hey, Sarah. How are you? I am good. I am good. I thought of you yesterday when I went swimming. Not far as I assume. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Today, I'm my walk. I walked past a community center that has a big window that looks into their pool. I think I've only been at once or twice when my kids were little. So I'm not crazy about that pool to begin with, |
| 1:30.2 | but I actually got a little shorter breath just like looking at. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh my gosh, sharing Elaine. |
| 1:36.7 | It's coming. |
| 1:37.3 | It's coming. |
| 1:39.6 | Yes, I don't blame you. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.8 | I was indoors yesterday when you were outdoors. |
| 1:46.9 | Oh, but don't envy me too much. |
| 1:59.4 | So, okay, so on, and we're talking about this in part because you wrote a fabulous Washington Post article about the joys of open water swimming you graciously included me in it and there was a photo and it was quite a thrill. |
| 2:00.4 | So thank you for that. |
| 2:01.4 | Well, you were a great source. Thanks thanks okay so mollie and i went swimming on sunday and today's wednesday as we |
| 2:10.1 | record this on sunday and it was just the water was glorious it was so clear and this beautiful |
| 2:15.4 | shade of green with the sunlight just cutting through it. |
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