Three Runners Who Finally (!!) Hit Their Time Goals
Another Mother Runner
Sarah Bowen Shea
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This episode is ideal for any athlete who sets goals and strives for them, regardless of whether that goal involves a time on a race clock or not. Host Sarah Bowen Shea and Molly Williams talk with three women who achieved long-held time goals—one in a 5K, another in a half-marathon, and another in a marathon. The guests share:
-how to find (+ maintain!) the requisite mental commitment;
-how intentional training can reignite a passion for running;
-the wisdom gained from consistency;
-how running taught one gal to be more flexible; and,
-how to “hang on” in the final miles of a race.
Before the first guest joins around 9:50, the hosts reminisce about the half-marathon in which Sarah helped Molly achieve her goal time (complete with too-short running skirts!). Head here to sign up for notifications about Sarah and Dimity’s next steps.
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| 0:29.8 | Welcome to another mother runner. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm joined today in studio by Molly Williams. |
| 0:34.3 | Hello, Molly. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:36.3 | So good to be here. |
| 0:40.6 | Yes, yes, yes. So given our topic today, which I'll introduce in a sec, I'm thinking it would be fun if you and I reminisced a little bit |
| 0:45.4 | about a race that we did together. Because today we are talking about reaching a long-held |
| 0:51.3 | time goal. Yes, and it is one of my favorite types of our podcast when we talk to several quote unquote |
| 0:57.4 | regular runners and hear about their experiences. |
| 1:00.9 | So that's what you and I are going to do. |
| 1:02.8 | We're going to talk to three gals who reached a long held time goal. |
| 1:06.3 | And folks, I want to say that if running for time isn't your jam, |
| 1:10.6 | I really think you'll still enjoy |
| 1:12.2 | and gain a lot from this episode. We have guests fill out a Google form before they hop on. |
| 1:17.4 | And I know from reading through those that these people have a lot to say about running and |
| 1:22.8 | goals that are not time related. This episode was prompted by a text from one of our guests, Sue, who has attended a bunch of our retreat, so I know are in person. And she told me that, quote, after six tries, I finally achieved a sub five-hour marathon, 455. Woo-hoo. Wow. Yeah. And we'll hear from Sue last as we're going to go in order of race length with our guests, a 5K half |
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