AMR Answers: Pre-race Warm-ups; Banishing Plantar Fasciitis

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This is the ideal episode for runners, like Stacy, who have been sick and want to know how to ease back into training. Or runners like Christine, wondering the best practices for warming up before a race. Then there are all the runners like Tianna suffering from plantar fasciitis, who will be grateful for the insight and advice on overcoming that pernicious foot ailment. Before the Q&As start at 9:21, Sarah tells tales of her workouts on a recent East Coast trip. Please call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771) to record your question. Here are details about Better Together and Grand Traverse. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to AMR Answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimity McDowell. And Sarah, you're back from a little jaunt out east.
0:14.2	I am. I spent close to a week out there. I first went to New Jersey to see my son John in two performances of the show,
0:23.1	Oklahoma. It confused people that I was going to New Jersey to see Oklahoma. I am talking about
0:28.9	the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, not the state. And then I went up to the Hudson Valley to see
0:36.1	my best friend Chalkley.
0:39.4	And, oh, my goodness.
0:45.1	So, okay, so, dim, you know, I didn't have access to a gym or a pool or a pickaball court.
0:45.7	So I ran for six days in a row for a total.
0:49.2	I was going to say, did you go through withdrawal?
0:51.9	Is that what you're going to say?
0:52.9	It is that.
0:53.9	It is that. It is that. Yeah, I didn't miss the lifting, but I definitely missed the pickleball in the swimming.
0:57.6	But, yeah, I ran six days in a row for a total of 30 miles. That's a lot. It is. I mean,
1:05.6	back in the day, I would have been like, oh, yeah, no biggie. And now I'm like, oh my gosh, I ran six days in a row for a total of 30 miles.
1:11.9	So, yeah. And, you know, I didn't, I didn't limp. My back didn't hurt. My knees didn't hurt. I mean, it was kind of a miracle. So that's amazing. That's amazing. Did you have some good spring weather? Oh, my goodness. It was so beautiful. Although, oh, okay, so my son goes to school in
1:30.4	Montclair, New Jersey, as I might have mentioned on a few other podcasts. And the school itself is on a hill.
1:36.8	And John often complains about how windy it is. And so we get to New Jersey. And I mean,
1:44.0	it was so windy.
1:45.2	We were saying in Airbnb like my husband and I do.
1:48.6	And the wind was just howling around this place.
1:52.6	And so I thought, oh, it's Montclair, whatever.
1:55.5	And then, oh, no, it was an extreme weather thing on the East Coast for several days. And I am, we just don't have
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