Many Happy Miles: Hello, Hybrid Racing

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, hosts Dimity and Sarah WF welcome Robin Legat, an accomplished athlete in the world of hybrid racing. Robin shares how she found her competitive spirit later in life, her experiences in competitions like Spartan and DEKA races, and her passion for helping others build confidence through fitness. The conversation touches on: hybrid racing: what it is and why it’s attracting athletes of all levels; Robin’s journey from running a fitness studio to competing in obstacle racing and hybrid fitness events—and how she landed a dream job in the industry; and, tips and motivation from Robin on how to embrace athleticism, build confidence, and stay active well into midlife and beyond. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support. New AG1 subscribers: Go to drinkAG1.com/AMR for a FREE $76 gift when you sign up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to many happy miles where we celebrate all sorts of forward movement, whether it's a round of roller derby or competing in a functional fitness race.
0:19.7	Promise that intro will make sense in a little bit.
0:22.2	I'm Dimity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:25.5	And I'm Sarah Wassner-Flynn, and I'm saying yay to sunshine, because even though it's freezing
0:30.4	cold here today, we're not getting snow.
0:33.1	We are supposed to get pummeled by snow this tomorrow, and tomorrow. And instead, it went out to sea. So it's
0:38.8	he had a sunshine. Yeah, but, but, but, but no out to see. I love it. Yes, I know. But nothing like
0:45.3	the sunshine that you had in Arizona. I mean, that looked like a beautiful, wonderful trip. So tell me a
0:50.5	little bit about that. Yeah. I mean, we had probably, I think about 30 or a little over 30 women coming to the Mammoth March,
0:57.6	Arizona.
0:58.2	They trained with us for 16 weeks.
1:00.7	And then we met in what's called McDowell Regional Park.
1:05.1	Sarah, you and I and April and Kathy, our little train like a mother team, did it last year as kind
1:10.1	of scouting.
1:10.8	And this year we bought a group of amazing amazing women there and they all nailed it.
1:15.3	It was great.
1:16.4	It's 20 miles.
1:18.3	Like I said, they trained pretty hard coming up to hiking five hours on their own, which
1:23.3	is a long time to be with your thoughts and going at a pace, especially in the wintertime where
1:29.6	the snow can slow you down and that kind of thing. But it set them up beautifully for a great day
1:34.8	on Saturday. You know, everybody came into aid stations looking like they had a lot of energy.
1:41.3	The biggest issue, there were two issues. And the first one was the sun,
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