Many Happy Miles: Paralympian Melissa Stockwell

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode, the hosts welcome Melissa Stockwell, a mother runner, military veteran, and four-time Paralympian. Melissa shares her incredible journey, from joining the military to taking up triathlon after losing a limb in combat. In the show, you’ll hear about: The events of 2004 that changed Melissa’s life and how she found her way into adaptive sports; Melissa’s multiple trips to the Paralympics and serving as Team USA’s flag bearer; Her thoughts on the growing visibility of the Paralympics and her experience in Paris compared to previous Games; and, Melissa’s role as an advocate for adaptive sports, and more. Curious about our Hike Like a Mother: Arizona trip? Click here to learn 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 Get $5: Download the free Ibotta app + use code AMR when you register. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Whether it's a little trotter on the block to see some Halloween decorations
0:55.0	or a full 5K in a costume,
0:58.0	we're here to say yay and boo to it all.
1:01.0	I'm Dimmity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. booed
1:04.9	I'm Dimmity McDowell co-founder of another mother runner and I'm Sarah Western Flynn and you're inspiring me to
1:08.4	enter this 5K that's on Halloween or right around Halloween that I did a few years ago and I'm like
1:13.6	thinking back to the costume I were I was like that was really cute I got to do
1:16.7	that again yeah what was the costume what was the costume I think I was just
1:20.8	kind of like a punk like 80s girl and I tried to you know incorporate any
1:26.0	pink and hot pink that I had in my running gear and I put lots of sparkles on and I
1:30.9	had like a side ponytail and I wore two two which I've never done before and it was so fun and it was called like the Boo 5K and everybody got dressed up and there was this guy dressed as Waldo and every race picture it was so funny he was like in the background and you could see Waldo.
1:47.4	That was like that is so clever he's like totally like where's Waldo? I gotta see if they still do that raise you just
1:54.1	totally reminded me of that but it was really really fun yeah I did one 5K
1:59.2	with my kids a long I mean Ben was Ben was little I think yeah and Amelia I can't remember I mean I have only done one it was in wash park it was fun
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