Many Happy Miles: Louise Butcher, the Topless Runner

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, co-hosts Dimity and Sarah WF welcome Louise Butcher, also known as the Topless Runner, a mother of two, a breast cancer survivor, and a trailblazing advocate for body positivity. In this inspiring chat, the hosts cover a gamut of topics with Louise, including: Going viral for running races, including the 2024 London Marathon, without a shirt following her double mastectomy; Her mission to normalize mastectomy and to challenge the stigma around it; Her decision to run topless and promoting body acceptance; The reactions she gets while running topless…and more! When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Make the most of every rep: Get $200 off your Tonal purchase with code AMR at tonal.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to tonal for supporting our show.
0:02.0	Powered by AI, tonal learns with every rep
0:04.6	so it can deliver workouts personalized just for you.
0:07.5	Tonal is offering our listeners $200 off your tonal purchase
0:11.6	with promo code AMR at tonal.com. Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all types of forward movement.
0:30.0	Whether it's the Twin Cities 10 Mile, one of my favorite races ever that was just last weekend, or a nice stroll by the Mississippi River,
0:37.0	we're here to say yay to it all.
0:40.0	I'm Dimmity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:43.3	And I'm Sarah Wasser Flynn, and today I am saying, yay to setting a, I guess going after a personal
0:51.9	goal, falling a little short short but still going after it and
0:54.6	celebrating all of that comes with it so yeah so you so you I saw this on social
1:00.9	media you not you you don't even bring it up like in our meetings but you did
1:04.3	you do two back-to-back one mile races? No, no I just did one. I just did the one and it was about
1:20.0	two weeks ago. So earlier in the year I decided I was going to do a fast smile. It was actually in June and
1:34.5	unfortunately it was cancelled and so I was like I still have to do the mile I still have to train for it and then life happens you know and I went on my little quest to do the fast 200 and I got that done and then I kind of was really enjoying the speed session so I found a road mile that I had done eight years
1:39.1	ago that's still around and I signed up for it was $25 is the cheapest race I've done in a very long time and I got up and I went and did it and my goal was really I mean I have you had ups and downs with life and training and so I wasn't like going
1:56.5	after something crazy but I did set the goal of breaking I wanted to break six minutes really wanted to break 550 but I also wanted to be the
2:05.6	women's over 40 champion so I was like whatever it takes to be the fastest
2:10.0	woman over 40 I wanted to get that. So I did win my quote, fastest over 40. And then I
2:18.0	went 554, which was the satisfactory time and I finished feeling like I could have gone a lot faster so I've been
2:25.9	pursuing road miles and unfortunately there just aren't that many in this area so my mile my next mile might have to wait for a little bit but I do have
2:35.6	confidence I can go faster now well first of all major congratulations I mean that
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