Attaining Big Goals—And Then What?

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Anyone looking for inspiration to go after an ambitious goal—and folks looking to get over post-achievement blues—will love this episode. Recorded at AMR’s Lake Placid retreat, hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin talk with four goal-chasers, who discuss: -how to step up to longer triathlons; -thoughts + emotions of closing in on 50-state marathon goal; -pushing a disabled daughter in a wheelchair in a marathon; and, -rebounding to regular workout-life after a lengthy run-streak. In the intro, Amanda reminisces about doing the inaugural Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon. The first guest joins at 8:37. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! See for yourself: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2024 at TifosiOptics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Fosi Optics for supporting another mother runner.
0:03.0	Tofosi is the only brand of sport sunglasses I wear, whether running, play pickleball, cycling, or driving.
0:08.0	Get 20% off with code amr 2024 at toofosi Optics. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boenshe. I'm joined here by Amanda Louden.
0:34.0	Hello Amanda.
0:35.0	Hi Sarah, we are in the Adirondacks.
0:38.0	Yay!
0:40.0	Yes, we are. This is being recorded in front of a live.
0:46.0	Audience at our Lake Placid retreat at the lovely High Peaks Resort in downtown Lake Placid.
0:55.0	And so speaking of that, you told me that you have an amazing anecdote from the 1999 Lake Placid Iron Man.
1:05.0	And as we so often say, I said,
1:07.1	save it for the podcast.
1:08.4	So now's the podcast, Amanda.
1:10.3	Right, here we go.
1:11.5	So we just dated me, right? 1999. You were a mere child.
1:15.0	Right. So my really kind of fun story with it was I was on the run and there was a guy who we kind of kept switching places and he came up alongside me and he said you know I can't I can't drop you but I'm also
1:30.4	you know you're not dropping me so do you want to run next to each other and I said
1:33.7	sure and we were maybe six miles into the marathon at that point and he
1:37.9	reached ever and he introduced himself he said my name's Chris and and I said
1:41.9	oh I've got a brother name Chris and I said my name is Amanda and he said I've got a sister named
1:46.2	Amanda so I felt like we were meant to run together and we really did stick to it the whole
1:52.3	rest of the race together.
1:53.9	It was really like if he had a bad moment needed a walk I would walk with him and
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