Simple Mental Strategies to Improve Your Running

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Anyone interested in training their brain as well as their body needs to listen to this insightful episode. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, guest Carrie Jackson, a certified mental performance consultant and author of On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance, details: -how to create your own race reports to learn from them; -ways to stay grounded in the joy of sport; -how to sidestep self-sabotage; -why resilience is more important than confidence; and, -non-vomit-inducing ways to bolster gratitude! Before the guest joins around BARRY INSERT TIME HERE, Sarah dives into revealing her and Molly’s planned weekend-workout. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code AMRwinter2025 at topoathletic.com Seeing is believing: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2025 at TifosiOptics.com Get rolling: Get 15% off any new ElliptiGO bike with code AMR15 at ElliptiGO.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Topo Athletic for its long-time support, I'm devoted to Topo shoes because they allow my
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1:01.1	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined by Liz Waterstrot. Hello, Liz.
1:14.4	Hi, Sarah. So Liz, Molly and I are going to take the plunge this weekend. We are doing our debut pond swim for the year. Ooh, that's exciting. It's early, too. It is early. Look at you. You pay attention. You must really like me. Yes. I keep notes
1:22.6	about all this type of stuff because I'm a nerd like that. And I actually note it on, I have a placard, a parking
1:29.0	placard, and I write things with a Sharpie on the back. So I know for a fact that two years ago,
1:34.1	we didn't have our debut swim until early June. And then last year, it was Mother's Day, so mid-May.
1:40.9	And last year, when we went swimming, I thought, oh my gosh, this is so lovely.
1:45.1	It's not at all chilly.
1:47.1	Like, it must have been nice like this.
1:49.8	It's not like a, you know, they suddenly turned on electric heat or something.
1:53.2	Like, it must have been nice for at least a week or two leading up to that.
1:57.7	So right then and there, I'm like, Molly, next year, we are going in earlier.
2:02.2	So that's what we're doing. So nice. Well, that's exciting. Good luck with that.
2:07.3	Thank you. Thank you. I don't know. We, so we've never been in the pond in April. So I don't know what
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