One Runner’s Quest to Qualify for Boston Marathon

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This is the ideal episode for folks striving for any big goal: The guest is Sheila Gencarelli, 57, a pharmacist and mom of two who has been attempting to run a Boston-qualifying marathon time for more than a decade. In a lovely, honest conversation with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Molly Williams, Sheila shares: -how the seed of desire to run Boston was planted for her; -the heartbreak of (repeatedly!) missing her time goal by seconds; -the power of shifting her focus from the race to the training; -that mid-race potty-breaks are her Achilles heel; and, -how being on time (or early) IRL might be her ticket to BQ’ing finally! Before the marathoner joins around 7:18, Molly talks about her strength training routine. Bonus content: Miles of Books starts around 58:55, with Coach Liz detailing Wander, a memoir about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Run the Rose City! Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at portlandmarathon.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Run the Rose City by doing the Portland Marathon presented by OHSU Health.
0:04.5	The marathon and the half marathon both features several crossings of Portland's iconic bridges
0:09.4	and both races have a downtown start and finish.
0:12.0	Use code AMR 20 for $20 off registration
0:15.7	at Portland Marathon.com.
0:18.3	Hey, stick around to the end of this episode to hear Liz and me on Miles of Books. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boenshe. I am joined in studio today by Molly.
0:47.4	Hello, Sarah. It's so nice to see you. It's lovely to see you too. We did see each other on Monday night at Book Group. We did and you've
0:55.8	got your curly hair. You look so good from the hairdresser. Oh thank you, thank you.
1:00.3	Yes and as usual I did not read the book at Book.
1:03.0	Oh yeah, it was Wounded in the vial.
1:05.0	It was a wonderful book.
1:06.0	Right, Eric Larson.
1:07.0	Yeah, all about Churchill.
1:09.0	Yes.
1:10.0	Which you will never know about now.
1:11.0	Hey, I watched the Crown.
1:12.0	Oh, yeah.
1:13.0	Well, and did you ever watch Churchill?
1:15.0	That wasn't called Churchill.
1:16.5	There was a movie about Churchill.
1:18.5	Oh, anyway.
1:19.5	Very good.
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