Many Happy Miles: The Unforgiving Hours

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you ever wondered what drives someone to run 100 miles, swim across the English Channel, or dive into near-freezing water—all in the name of pushing limits—this episode is for you. We’re joined by Shannon Hogan, author of The Unforgiving Hours, a new book celebrating the grit and grace of "ordinary" endurance athletes. In the episode, Shannon shares... Her own “unforgiving” athletic feats; How the subjects in her book prove that mental toughness can often trump physical ability; Lessons from endurance sports that apply to everyday life…and more. Note: This is our final Miles of Books segment on Another Mother Runner. Starting Tuesday, April 22, Miles of Books launches as its own podcast! Episodes will air every other Tuesday, alternating between nonfiction (hosted by Coach Liz + Sarah) and fiction (hosted by Sarah + Ellison Weist). We’re excited to share more stories—and grow our community of book-loving runners! Join us for your own adventure this fall at the Grand Traverse. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Try before you buy: Get 20% off all Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2025 at TifosiOptics.com 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	Thanks to Tofosi Optics for its continued support.
0:02.7	Get this.
0:03.8	Tofosi just launched the first ever at-home try-on program for prescription sports eyewear.
0:09.4	Get 20% off any Tofosi glasses with code AMR 2025 at Tofosea Optics.com.
0:16.2	Music Welcome to many happy miles where we celebrate all sorts of forward movement, whether it's running the Boston marathon course backwards or swimming an ice mile.
0:34.8	All that's going to make sense in a little bit.
0:37.0	We're here for it. And we're
0:38.6	here for you. I'm Dimity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. And I'm Sarah Wessner Flynn.
0:44.3	And I'm saying yay to transitions, new season and new season of podcasts for AMR.
0:53.5	Exactly. Exactly.
0:54.6	Exactly.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.7	Yeah, there's no easy way to say this.
0:59.9	We are, this is our last episode of Many Happy Miles.
1:07.8	And the reason why is because we are going to launch a new-ish podcast or turn one of our regular features into a podcast.
1:09.8	On Tuesday, April 22nd, Miles of Books is going to debut as its stand-alone podcast.
1:16.9	After two plus years of being a monthly bonus segment on our Friday, another mother runner's show.
1:22.4	Several factors played into this change, including that our winter and summer reading episodes are most popular
1:27.5	Friday shows of the year. And knowing that some of you love reading as much as you love running,
1:33.0	Sarah decided it was time to launch a book-centric podcast. Miles Books will air every other Tuesday,
1:39.8	alternating focus on nonfiction books with hosts Coach Liz Water Stratt and Sarah Bowen-Shay one episode,
1:46.9	while the next one will feature fiction books discussed by Sarah and Ellison Weist.
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