Running While Pregnant: How Sarah Brown Trained for the Olympic Trials During Pregnancy
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
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🗓️ 13 July 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
There's one topic that many female runners will need to consider at some point during their running careers, and that is pregnancy.
Whether planned or unplanned, pregnancy can absolutely have a huge effect on your training and workouts.
Many doctors will support a woman who is planning to run throughout her pregnancy (as long as it is safe for her in particular, of course!), so taking a nine-month hiatus is not often necessary.
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| 0:00.0 | Running is just a part of who I am. It's something I do, I enjoy it. I feel like it betters me as a person and I would have wanted to train through my pregnancy no matter when the Olympics were. Like that would have just been something that I wanted to do and it just happened that, you know, |
| 0:16.9 | the time frame looked like something that could possibly possibly work out. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the Runters Connect Run to the Top podcast where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:32.0 | So together, we can train us smarter, healthier, and faster running |
| 0:37.0 | community. Now here's your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello. Tina Muir. Hello, this is Tina Muir. Thank you so much for being here with me for the latest episode of the Ranners Connect |
| 0:50.4 | runs of the top podcast. So last week we talked to Phoebe Wright who's a professional |
| 0:55.3 | 800 meter runner with a fun relatable perspective on how the changes we go |
| 1:00.9 | through in our lives really define us. She was really honest |
| 1:04.6 | about how she struggled through her professional career over the last five years and |
| 1:08.7 | we actually talked about eating disorders within the running world and what we can do as friends and family to help. |
| 1:14.3 | Today we're going to get a bit more specific, well I guess kind of, this is |
| 1:19.6 | something that the majority of runners will have to work around at some point, but you may have already |
| 1:25.2 | been through it years ago or have it at some point in the future, but this may not be you right now, |
| 1:29.7 | but it's going to be a beneficial episode anyway. I thought it was about time we had a pregnancy |
| 1:35.0 | special and with professional runner Sarah Brown being all over the media right now for her |
| 1:40.4 | journey to the Olympic trials during and after her pregnancy. |
| 1:44.4 | I thought would be a great time to hear her story. |
| 1:47.0 | Do you remember last year we had a special podcast episode where we talked about cross |
| 1:51.1 | training, how to stay in shape when you're injured or injury |
| 1:53.9 | prone. Well in that episode I don't know if you remember but the Ellipsego guest who |
| 1:59.2 | talked about his wife and how she'd managed to race incredibly well of cross training. |
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