Many Happy Miles: Adventures in Antarctica

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is the episode for all the big-dreamers out there: The guest is Becca Pizzi, who has completed marathons on all seven continents, and she's now the first (and only!) female race director of the Antarctica Marathon. Along with hosts Dimity McDowell and Sarah Wassner Flynn, Becca shares about her adventurous life, including: how her own running adventures led to her gig as a race director; the logistics and challenges of organizing a marathon in one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth; and, behind-the-scenes details of what it takes to participate in and direct a marathon in Antarctica. If you’ve got adventure on your mind but Antarctica is a little out of reach, we’ve got a brand new hiking program geared towards the Mammoth March or a similar 20-ish mile hike. It’s sixteen weeks long, and has all the workouts, details and information you need to have a great day on the trail. 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 Many Happy Miles, a podcast where we celebrate all sorts of forward movement, whether it's shoveling snow after a winter storm or climbing a sledding hill for the 25th time. I remember those days.
0:21.9	Your quads are like, hello.
0:24.1	We're here for all of it.
0:25.8	I'm Dimity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:29.4	And I'm Sarah Wester Flynn.
0:31.0	And yes, I can relate.
0:32.7	Actually, my kids are of the age where I can kind of let them go to the sledding hill by
0:36.4	themselves and I don't have to climb up and down.
0:38.6	But we do have some significant snowfall here in the DMV area.
0:43.4	And yesterday I went up.
0:46.0	Our neighbors have a little hill.
0:47.7	And I went up it to help Maeve come down.
0:49.8	And two little 10-year-olds plowed into me and took me out.
0:56.2	So that was fun.
0:56.9	Wow.
0:57.5	Wow.
0:58.1	Yeah.
1:01.7	I was like, that was my karma for leaving Mark in the dust when he was shoveling. I was like, I think I'd rather go sledding with the kids.
1:04.2	And then I go over there and like maybe 45 seconds later, I'm flat on my back.
1:08.5	And a little sore today.
1:10.6	So not from climbing the hills,
1:12.2	but from getting taken out by a fast-moving duo of 10-year-olds. And I was like, girls, come on.
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