The Importance of Recovery for Runners

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Any athlete looking to sidestep injury and feel more centered owes it to themself to listen to this episode featuring Erin Taylor, a 20-year yoga instructor and author of Move, Rest, Recover: Your Practical Guide to Balancing Mind and Body. With hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, Erin talks about: -how + why recovery is unique to each athlete; -the benefits of short restorative stretch sessions; -recovery insight + advice for injured runners; -her three surprising favorite recovery tools; and, -the move she calls “the boss”—and why it should be your daily go-to. Sarah details a near-miss on a recent run before the guest jumps on around 08:59. Special freebie: Redeem a free month of full access to all of Erin’s content, including weekly yoga videos. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! 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	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined today by Liz Waterstrat. Hello again, Liz.
0:22.4	Hi, Sarah. It's like every day. Dejaveu. Here we are again. Let's get a little excitement and
0:30.9	enthusiasm in that voice. Sarah, I get to talk to you again. Hi, Sarah. What have you been doing in the
0:37.4	past 23 hours? Right. I think it might
0:41.5	only be 22. Yeah. Oh my goodness. This warning, I went on a six-mile run and there was some fog,
0:51.8	but the sun was definitely making a very valiant effort to come through and it's fully come through.
0:56.6	But oh my gosh.
0:57.5	So usually I, you know, I live right here in inner northeast Portland.
1:01.9	And so feels, I think some people would probably think it feels somewhat like a suburb.
1:06.6	It doesn't feel, you know, it's not a city like New York or even Chicago is, something like that.
1:11.7	But so I run in the street facing traffic.
1:16.6	But today I had to go up on the sidewalk because there was a car coming and it was just kind of a little tricky spot.
1:24.1	Oh my gosh.
1:25.5	I nearly bought the farm because I tripped on the uneven sidewalk and oh my gosh so thankfully
1:33.5	it was chilly so i was wearing gloves so at least i did think well my hands won't take too much
1:39.3	damage but i mean liz i probably got so that my face was down where my knees were.
1:45.1	Like in terms of that's how bent over I was.
1:47.7	And I was still moving forward, but able to regain my footing, keep going and not fall down.
1:57.0	Like, I really felt like for a person of my age, it was quite an accomplishment.
2:03.3	That's, you know what?
2:04.6	That's all that agility.
2:05.9	Remember this year you set the intention A for agility?
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