Dimity McDowell - Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
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In Run Like a Mother, authors Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea offer both inspirational advice and practical strategies to help multitasking women make running part of their busy lives.
McDowell and Shea understand the various external and internal forces in everyday life that can unintentionally keep a wife--mother--working woman from lacing up her shoes and going for a run. Because the authors are multihyphenates themselves, Run Like a Mother is driven by their own running expertise and real-world experience in ensuring that running is part of their lives.
More than a book, Run Like a Mother is essentially a down-to-earth, encouraging conversation with the reader on all things running, with the overall goal of strengthening a womans inner athlete. Of course, real achievement is a healthy mix of inspiration and perspiration, which is why the authors have grounded Run Like a Mother in a host of practical tips on shoes, training, racing, nutrition, and injuries, all designed to help women balance running with their professional and personal lives.
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Run Like a Mother copyright 2009, 2010 by Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews. For information, write Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.
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To Grant, Amelia, and Ben
Dimity
To Jack, Phoebe, John, and Daphne,
my most ardent fans
Sarah
The Real Reason We Run
October 10, 2005
To: Sarah
From: Dimity
So on my walk this morning, Im thinking: marathon in spring 2007? Wanna? It was drizzling, like it did in NYC in 1997 (!) and made me nostalgic for running 26.2 while my feet are sopped.
To: Dimity
From: Sarah
So are you talking you and ME doing marathon, or just you!?
To: S
From: D
Im thinking we run it together. Well, maybe not exactly together, as youll be way faster than me, but we will keep each other accountable for training (more for my benefit than yours), then meet up in a cool city and run, run, run. No pressure: Theres over a year to commit.:)
Just heard the peanuts heartbeatwhat a sweet sound. Yay.
To: D
From: S
YAYYYYYYY! Heartbeat!!!! Soooo excited for you!
Id LOVE to do a marathon with youalthough you will be the speedier one. I tell you, I am SLOW now. While I was carrying the twins, my pre-pregnancy running partner dusted me. Shes 48 and just did her first marathon (Portland) 3:56. She qualified for Boston. Its KILLING me!
Oh, marathon MUST be flat or flat-tish and in a city west of Chicago, if not even closer.
October 31, 2005
To: S
From: D
OK, you have some qualifications, but I think we can work around them. Lets place it on the back burner, and revisit next fall.
And, BTW, I gotta say, the Nike Womens Marathon sounds really appealing. I know its in the fall, and I doubt I would be ready next fall, but maybe fall 2007? Im thinking if I run sub-4:30, Ill be feeling like Tegla Loroupe. The other good thing about Nike: Its also got a half-marathon. Not that I wont aim for the 26.2 stars, but just in case.
April 10, 2006
To: S
From: D (5 days away from due date with second kid)
Just took Dharma for a walk. 45 minutes is my max now, and its mostly on flat roads. Cant WAIT to get back into shape. Still thinking about Nike marathon in 07. Wish it could be this year, but Im kidding myself.
To: D
From: S
Babe, I am not ready for marathon this fall! Fitness is coming back, but slowly. Im in ma-thetic shape (ha ha!). I hear you on being READY to not be preggo anymore!
May 30, 2006
To: S
From: D
Went for my first run. Pathetic. Five minutes of running (at a 10 mph pace, being optimistic) and 5 minutes of walking x 4. It really hurt. Decided to wait until post-July 4th to try again, and try to do more fast walking/hiking in the meantime. Thought about pitching Nike Womens Marathon to Runners World though: Do you think theyd bite?
August 23, 2006
To: S
From: D
Had EXCELLENT run last nightovercast, in the low 70s, hadnt done cardio in about 4 days (so I had energy), listened to Dixie Chicks and Lucinda Williams. Ran for 50 minutes, with a 1-minute break about minute 26 (to switch from the Chix to Luci). Marathon seemed possible.
Also got my brain thinking about angle we could use:
Long-distance training partners. How slow was your ma-thetic pace again? Thinking if were about the same pace, we get put on the same training plan/same workouts, and we can bitch about them and tell how we squeeze workouts in, etc. Could also see how two people on the same plan produce different results. Thinking we type you as competitive, me as laid-back. (Id rather win silver than gold. Honestly.)
December 8, 2006
To: S
From: D
Ive been running more: 4 x 45 minutes this week, and am feeling good. Lets get a marathon pitch to RW by end of first week in January? Sorry I havent moved on it.
To: D
From: S
Yes, lets pitch RW. My only concerns now are that Nike Womens Marathon and Head of the Charles are the same weekend! But lets HOPE we have such problems: having to decide b/t the two. Please, I havent done anything either! But I FULLY intend to any day now, I swear.
New rule: no apologies.
A few phone calls follow, during which Sarah and Dimity dont think a plain old marathon is compelling enough to pitch to Runners World, but the Transrockies, during which teams of two cover 125 miles in 6 days, is being held for the first time that fall, and we pitch it. They bite, and we freak out: No way can we train for 125 miles.
To: Tish, Executive Editor at Runners World
From: Sarah
Dimity and I are psyched RW is so excited by our Transrockies proposal but, as you might guess, we let our enthusiasm get the better of us when we put it together. After sending it off without much thought about how long 125 miles really is, and how much wed have to train to get there, reality set in. Separately, we both realized the training for the raceand the race itselfwould do us (and our marriages!) in. Images of disgusting houses, disgruntled husbands, and kids eating cheese pizzas for dinner every night because were too tired to make anything else were enough to make us reconsider.
But we dont want to abandon the idea totallyjust downsize it a bit. We were thinking we could run the Nike Womens Marathon in October. Because 26.2 isnt, well, 125and the train-wreck appeal isnt therewe could factor our mentalities into the equation and either play them up as they naturally are or train to balance them via a sports psychologist or similar expert. (Something like, Dimity has to actually go at a pace that hurts, while I have to try to chat up at least one person a mile.)
Anyway, we look forward to hearing from youheckling included.
To: D
From: S
Twinge of regret/sadness went thru me when I just hit send on our reply to Tish. But, honestly, at this point in our lives, the race would have done us in. Otherwise, our next joint assignment would be, Physical studs, mental wrecks: dealing with divorce and kids while being in the best shape of our lives.
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