Women Runners Thriving after Breast Cancer

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Anyone who has been touched by breast cancer will enjoy listening to this episode, which features four active women who vanquished breast cancer. The four share: -how their cancer was discovered, and their treatment; -how individual every patient’s journey is; -their athletic accomplishments + training post-cancer; and, -their optimistic outlooks on life. Before the first survivor/thriver joins the show around 6:46, find out what host Molly admits to being good at sucking at! (Here is a private Facebook page called BAMR Breasties for women runners who have had a breast cancer diagnosis, and here is a link to guest Amy Lippert Hoffmann’s book.) When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Save 15% on any full-price purchase thru 12/31/23  at topoathletic.com w/ code AMRTOPOMOVE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. I'm joined today in
0:36.5	studio by Molly Williams. Hello Molly. Hello Sarah. So nice to see you this
0:41.6	rainy morning. Yes. Yes. Yes. As I told you, I ran five rainy miles this
0:46.2	morning. Lightweight wool is where to add that long sleeve was my bestie out
0:51.5	there because you couldn't be with me. I know. Well, maybe someday. Yes. But you
0:56.2	have a new athletic endeavor on your life. Yeah. So to speak. Yeah. I tried
1:01.6	pickleball or pickleball tried me. All on your own. I didn't force you into this.
1:07.2	No. No. I've been wanting to do it. I was waiting till after my knee and you
1:11.1	know feeling like I was stable. So I took a learn to play pickleball. Yeah. It
1:15.7	was it was humbling. How so? How so? Well, yeah. Just yeah. I'm used to sucking
1:23.5	hard at things. And I managed to do that with this as well. So get out there and
1:29.4	advice like keep your eye on the ball. I was like, okay, all right. Make your
1:33.4	paddle go the direction you want the ball to go. Oh, well, now there's an idea.
1:39.5	But it was fun. Got out there. Played around a little bit. And then I went to
1:43.6	another, um, you know, yeah, and then did a open play. Is that what you call it?
1:49.2	Yes. With some other women that didn't barely know how to play pickleball. And we had a
1:52.9	good time. Right. Yeah. We had our zero, zero, zero games at the zero, zero score lasted
1:57.8	for quite a long time because the scoring team could do or could never. No, we could
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