Lauren Fleshman on the Power of Journaling

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Fans of writing and running—or folks looking to forge their runner identity—will love this episode about keeping a running/movement journal. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin, guest Lauren Fleshman, former pro runner, entrepreneur, and co-creator of the Believe Training Journal, shares: -the multi-faceted power of journaling; -advice for how to start keeping a running journal; -the power of looking back at past journal entries; -how messiness can serve a purpose; and, -how journal-writing can foster + strengthen your running identity. Before Lauren joins the conversation around 08:24, the hosts share anecdotal advice on how to enjoy weight training—even a Turkish get-up! (And listen to the very end for bonus content: curly haircareadvice from Lauren!) When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Topo Athletic for its long-time support.
0:03.0	I'm devoted to Tobo shoes because they allow me to move naturally with a roomy
0:07.0	toebox, secure midfoot, and low heel-to-to-to-to-to-drop.
0:10.3	Save 15% on any full-price purchase at Topoathletic.com with our new code, AMR Winter 2025.
0:34.3	Welcome to another mother runner.
0:35.6	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:37.1	I'm joined today by Amanda Loudon.
0:43.8	Hello, Amanda. Hey, Sarah. How's it going? Good. It is almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the East Coast, and you have yet to shower, my friend, I hear. That is correct. And I ran at 7 a.m. for those at home.
0:53.3	So is that sheer laziness?
0:55.8	Is that work?
0:56.9	What is the rationale?
0:58.2	Honestly, it's been such a busy work morning and I was going to try to fit it in right
1:02.4	before the podcast, but I was out walking the dog and I came back.
1:05.4	I'm like, oh, I've got 20 minutes.
1:07.2	What's a better use of my time?
1:08.8	Shoot off a couple of emails.
1:10.0	So.
1:11.2	Wow. Wow.
1:14.4	So you told me before we started recording, you're working on something interesting for the Washington Post.
1:20.1	Tell us about that.
1:21.1	Yeah, so I'm doing kind of a reported essay on how I came to enjoy strength training because like many runners, you know, for years,
1:33.5	I was always one of those should do things, but didn't really like it, didn't really do it,
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