Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
Sarah Bowen Shea, Dimity McDowell
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1449409865
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the authors of the “run†away success Run Like a Mother, a book that fans are clamoring for on how to train for a race, including practical advice on all aspects of race preparation presented with the authors’ trademark wit and empathy.
Since the publication of their first book, Run Like a Mother, the authors have built up an engaged, vibrant tribe of women runners--more than 10,000 fans on Facebook and an average of 2,500 daily visitors to anothermotherrunner.com--who are clamoring for another book. At its core, Train Like a Mother will comprehensively cover how to train for a race, including training plans for four race distances (5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon) for both beginner and more experienced runners; the importance of recovery; pre- and post-race nutrition; strength training; injury prevention (and rehab); and everything busy women need to know to add racing to their multitasking schedules. It is all presented with the same wit, empathy, and tone the avid fans connect and identify with.
The book is divided into 13.1 chapters--the distance of a half-marathon, the sweet spot for many mother runners--narrated by both Sarah and Dimity. Like the first book, Train Like a Mother chapters have plenty of sidebars, including Practical Motherly Advice (helpful information about training- and race-related advice), Take It from a Mother (advice and answers from the growing tribe of running moms), and Racy Talk (entertaining, race-related stories from the authors and other moms). The .1 sections are entertaining "commercial breaks" celebrating the sport of running and the added thrill of racing.
know the best Band-Aid ever, and I’ll keep putting it on until I can’t do it any longer: I go for a run. PRACTICAL Motherly ADVICE FLYING SOLO “I have mad respect for single moms, running or not,” says Kelly, a mother runner who responded to a blog post we did about all the single ladies. “Mad respect. I don’t know how you do it every day. I don’t think I could.” Our sentiments exactly, Kelly. Even though we occasionally get irked at our husbands when they hit Chick-fil-A three times when
whether you ran it together or separately. Obviously, be sensitive to your friend’s feelings about her finish. Again, honesty is the best policy (oh, gosh, I’m turning into my mother, aren’t I?): If you’re feeling cruddy about your time, ’fess up, but don’t have an extended pity party if your pal is celebrating. Snap some pics together, whether or not you crossed the line as a team. You were there for each other in spirit, and a picture to prove it, as the cliché goes, is worth a thousand words.
and make reservations on the earlier side, as there will likely be a bunch of runners who need to be fed. Italian is always a good option, as are American-fare restaurants, where you can usually grab a salad and some form of pasta. I always opt for a salad and a relatively simple, noncreamy pasta dish. MORNING-OF BREAKFAST: Searching a Monterey, California, supermarket for satisfying, make-in-the-hotel-during-predawn-hours breakfast options was honestly what made me opt to run my hometown
stretch—crossing an ankle over one thigh, then sitting back as in a chair—is a good one) as well as your quads, hamstrings, and calves. Free (and you accrue AMR Spa reward points if your children or dogs crawl on top of you while you stretch) TAKE IT From A MOTHER ARE YOU A SERIAL RACER/TRAINER, A MOSTLY RUN-FOR-FUN’ER, OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN? “A bit of both. I really love to be on a training schedule, but I also really enjoy the few weeks after a race when I run for pleasure.” —ALLYSON
state all 4 years in high school track.) “I had hairline fractures in both shins, but it took awhile to get a diagnosis. I ran a 21-mile run on the fractures but was unable to complete marathon training. Now I get new shoes every 400 miles, and I don’t push myself beyond my limits.” —COURTNEY (Next on her running list of things to do: speedwork.) “Yes. In the weeks leading up to my first half-marathon, I was having extreme leg and hip pain. The elliptical didn’t seem to aggravate it, so I did