And Welcome to another mother-runner. This is Sarah Bo and Shay. I'm joined today by Tish

Hamilton. Hello Tish! Hi Sarah! I am fresh off a trip from Japan as you know because we text each other a few times

while I was over there. And that seemed like such an awesome trip. I'm sure you had such a wonderful time.

We did.

Now that we're back, I still kind of can't believe that we did it.

I mean, I have to say the flights didn't seem as long as I had fretted about,

but it just was, I mean I'd been to Asia before, I'd been to

China, Mongolia, and Thailand, but there was no doubt that I was in a different country

than the United States. Well, you are a different country than United States.

Well, you are a very well-traveled person and how fun it is to must have been to go with kids who are, what are they like, 19 to 21-ish, so like they're old enough to like be appreciative and

be a participant and...

Yeah, they can go off on their own.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can go off on their own. Yeah, they can go thrift shopping on their own

and go try to see the Imperial Palace on their own

and I set off on my own for a few runs.

I have to tell you Tish that I debated so many months

whether or not to bring my running shoes.

And I was finally motivated by so many different mother runners I had seen photos of them running in Japan specifically.

And I was like, oh, okay, I can do this, I can do this. do this yeah yeah you can totally do it and I have to say I went to

China to adopt my daughter actually and had the same debate like should I bring my running

shoes I'm adopting a baby am I going to actually be able to run and I brought my money

and so I figured well you know I can always walk and and I ended up running every day.

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