Many Happy Miles: Cross Training Secrets from Endurance Coaches

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Whether you’re training for a race or simply looking to stay active and injury-free, cross training (XT) can be a game-changer. In this episode, host Sarah Wassner Flynn chats with Another Mother Runner coaches Liz Waterstraat and Jennifer Harrison, two seasoned endurance coaches and triathletes, about the importance of XT and how to incorporate it into your life. The conversation covers: what exactly qualifies as cross-training—and why it’s essential for runners; how to sub in XT for runs without compromising performance; creative and enjoyable XT options to keep training fresh; using cross-training to prevent or recover from injury; and, seasonal approaches to cross-training, including how it shifts during race training vs. the off-season. Liz and Jen also share their personal favorite ways to cross-train, offer practical advice for balancing XT with running, and provide insight on how XT can enhance your overall fitness and performance. Ready to find your next finish line? Check out all of our training programs, from triathlon to ultra running and everything in between here. Bonus: Our programs are on sale all week, so be sure to snag a discount while it’s available! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all sorts of forward movement, whether it's a long walk on a gorgeous spring day like the one we're having here in Maryland, or it's a 2,000 meter workout in the indoor
0:23.1	pool dreaming about summer. We are here to say yay to it all. I'm Sarah Wassner Flynn and today I am
0:31.3	running solo without my partner in crime, Dimity. She is off on vacation with her family,
0:40.0	celebrating among other things,
0:46.8	her 25th wedding anniversary. So happy anniversary, Dimity, happy vacation. We hope that you're enjoying all of the sunshine with your family. And usually, Dimini, I catch up and we have a little
0:53.6	chit chat before the start of the show.
0:56.3	So I'm just going to kind of just run with it here and share a little bit about what's going on because I know Dimity would be asking me some questions about track and training and all that stuff.
1:05.9	So here we are in March and I am about to leave for Boston for the New Balance track Indoor Nationals.
1:14.8	So that's an indoor meet.
1:16.4	It goes from Thursday to Sunday of mid-March, and it is going to be action-packed.
1:23.3	I have athletes running every single day, and I'm super excited for what may happen.
1:29.9	We have a couple of national titles to defend, and we got some new freshmen coming in,
1:34.7	running it for the first time.
1:36.7	So I'm just hoping that we get some podiums and some PRs and plenty of smiles and happiness
1:42.5	and joy because that's what running should bring to all of us,
1:45.8	no matter the level of competition.
1:48.0	Speaking of competition, currently I have taken on a personal mission of running a fast mile,
1:55.8	fast being relative, of course.
1:57.7	Some of you might remember that I was challenging myself last summer to a 200 meters to
2:03.5	beat Snoop Dog's time, which I successfully did. And now I'm kind of upping the ante and hoping that I can
2:11.1	beat a time in the mile that doesn't belong to a celebrity or anything. It's just an arbitrary time
2:17.1	that I think I can hit.
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