AMR Answers: How to Start a Running Group; Marathon Pre-Hab

04/02/24 • 34 min

Listen to this episode if you’ve ever contemplated starting a running group, like Sara. Or if your daydream is a marathon, like Heather, you’ll appreciate Coach Dimity’s advice. Finally, the host duo answers Mary’s questions about rest time between speed-building intervals.

Dimity details her personal step-count challenge (hint: it deals with college campus visits) before the hosting duo dive into questions. Register to Go the Distance. Call to record a question: 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771).

When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.

We appreciate your—and their—support!

See for yourself: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses

with code AMR20 at TifosiOptics.com

Improve deep sleep: Use code AMR

for 15% off 1st purchase at LagoonSleep.com/AMR

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.

We appreciate your—and their—support!

See for yourself: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses

with code AMR20 at TifosiOptics.com

Improve deep sleep: Use code AMR

for 15% off 1st purchase at LagoonSleep.com/AMR

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Previous Episode

One Runner’s Quest to Qualify for Boston Marathon

This is the ideal episode for folks striving for any big goal: The guest is Sheila Gencarelli, 57, a pharmacist and mom of two who has been attempting to run a Boston-qualifying marathon time for more than a decade. In a lovely, honest conversation with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Molly Williams, Sheila shares:

-how the seed of desire to run Boston was planted for her;

-the heartbreak of (repeatedly!) missing her time goal by seconds;

-the power of shifting her focus from the race to the training;

-that mid-race potty-breaks are her Achilles heel; and,

-how being on time (or early) IRL might be her ticket to BQ’ing finally!

Before the marathoner joins around 7:18, Molly talks about her strength training routine. Bonus content: Miles of Books starts around 58:55, with Coach Liz detailing Wander, a memoir about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.

When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.

We appreciate your—and their—support!

Run the Rose City! Use code AMR20 for $20 off

registration at portlandmarathon.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next Episode

How Emotions and Virtues Shape Runners

This is the ideal episode for anyone who gets a bit contemplative on a run: The guest is Sabrina Little, Ph.D., a former pro runner and author of The Examined Run. With hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, Sabrina shares:

-her heartwarming start in ultramarathons;

-that pride doesn’t help you as a runner, but envy can;

-how devices can “separate” us from our surroundings as we run;

-how to rediscover wonder while on a run; and,

-the role of suffering in the lives of runners.

Sarah shares the continuing (!) saga of her son’s wayward birthday card to her before the guest joins around 6:10.

When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.

We appreciate your—and their—support!

Take steps to better running:

Use code AMR15 for 15% discount at Currex.com

Trust Fabric to protect your family:

Apply at MeetFabric.com/AMR