Women’s Rise in Running

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Everyone who’s interested in the steps it took to get women runners to where we are today needs to listen to this enlightening episode. Maggie Mertens, author of Better Faster Farther, joins hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Tish Hamilton to talk about: -why the 1928 Summer Olympics were such a watershed event; -period incapacitation: what it is and how it affected inclusion; -how the 1970s running boom democratized the sport; -the mind-boggling reality of 20th-century running gear; and, -the enduring importance of women-centered spaces + races. Before the guest joins at 6:33, Sarah details how her half-marathon training is going. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code TOPOAMR2024 at topoathletic.com Insoles for all your active pursuits: Use code AMR15 for 15% discount at Currex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks topo athletic for its long time support of another mother runner.
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0:15.9	2024. Thanks to curix for its continued support, whether it's running, hiking, biking,
0:21.0	court sports, golf, and even on your feet all day jobs,
0:24.4	Curix Insults are engineered for unequal comfort, performance, and injury prevention.
0:29.1	For 15% off, visit Curix.com and use code AMR 15. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by Tish Hamilton.
0:54.0	Hello, Tish. Hi, Sarah. You're coming to us from West Virginia instead of South Carolina today?
1:00.0	I am coming to you from West Virginia instead of Georgia which is where it's Georgia.
1:03.8	Sorry. Oh my gosh. Why do I always get that and I always get?
1:09.2	I do. I'm sorry. I think maybe I want the alliteration of Savannah, South Carolina, you know, the
1:16.2	only person who does that actually.
1:18.2	Oh, I'm so glad.
1:19.4	It's pretty common.
1:37.2	But anyway, I mean, we're in West Virginia because Savannah is so, so, so hot and all that my partner Rick just can't deal so he likes to rent a house up here in in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
1:40.4	Sure.
1:41.4	And it is a good central point. My daughter Nina is in college and works at
1:47.6	college over the summer in New York City, but she has August off so she comes
1:51.6	down. My niece and nephew-in-law live just across the river and my
1:55.6	mother and sister are in the and rest in Virginia which is about an hour so it's a
2:01.6	really good central point for all of us to get together.
2:05.0	Oh good and this is the Harper's Ferry as in like in the Civil War.
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