Two Coaches Put a Positive Spin on Quitting

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for everyone who has contemplated opting out of a workout, a training cycle, a race, or, heck, even a book club! The guests are Train Like a Mother Clubcoaches Jennifer Harrison and Liz Waterstraat. With host Sarah Bowen Shea, the coaching duo discusses: -how to reframe your notions about quitting; -weighing the risk versus reward of not continuing; -the importance of learning how to suffer in order to improve; -the logistics of dropping out of a race midway; and, -being strategic, instead of reactive, in your decision to move on. Before the coaches start doling out wisdom and advice around 8:17, Coach Liz shares her 8-year-old son’s goal list. (Awwww!) Later, Coach Jen details her on-going return from a debilitating injury. 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-Sham, joined today by Liz Waterstrat.
0:19.7	Hello, Liz.
0:21.0	Hi, Sarah.
0:22.5	So your son, I hear, has, it sounds like he's following in his mother's footsteps.
0:28.6	Oh, your younger son.
0:30.1	That's a very nice way to put it.
0:32.1	Yes, my eight-year-old, he's in the third grade.
0:34.6	He came home from school yesterday.
0:36.6	Their first day of school after being
0:38.1	home with, uh, it felt like four weeks, but it was maybe two weeks plus a day. That extra day really
0:43.9	pushed me over the edge. I want to talk to the school board about this extra day. Anyhow,
0:48.9	he came home with this goal sheet for the year and Sarah, the first line of this goal sheet, read 50 books.
0:58.6	Oh my gosh. Totally ship off the old block. Oh my gosh. So, so I said, I made him talk with me
1:05.7	through this whole list. And he goes, listen, there's 52 weeks in a year, mom. This is not hard.
1:11.5	And I'm like, thank you.
1:13.0	Thank you.
1:14.4	I strongly agree.
1:16.4	And there is no doubt our DNA is shared here.
1:20.2	So 50 books.
1:23.1	He wants to learn fluent Italian.
1:25.8	You know, like you got to dream big, a little guy.
1:29.6	And then his next was read a massive book, which I think he meant like just, you know,
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