When running solo or out walking Charlie, I prefer an audiobook or a podcast. Last week, I heard two podcast episodes that had me laughing out loud. It was like running with a good friend and hearing the antics of their week. The first was an episode of Another Mother Runner. The guest were Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas, a married couple who are both professional athletes and creators of Picky Bars. The part of the show I most enjoyed was their description of living in Bend, Oregon and their abundance of roundabouts. The city where I live also has a lot of roundabouts and while I love them, or at least the way they allow traffic to flow, visitors find them confusing and frustrating. Maybe this would help... Lauren and Pete on the podcast expressed that people in Oregon must signal out of the roundabouts. We don't signal in MN, but I'll admit, I've been trying to pay attention while I'm going around to see if signaling would help. I'm quite sure that giant stop light would be bad, bad, bad in a roundabout! The second podcast I listened to was with Minnesotan Carrie Tellefson. The title of her podcast is C Tolle Run. On many episodes, Carrie and the guest go for a run along the Mississippi River in St. Paul. This week's guest was Parker Stinson who is the 2019 25K US Champion (15.5 miles). He had lots of tales about racing professionally as well as at Oregon. When asked about how he started running, he talked about running with his dad and sister, then begging his dad to let him run cross country. His dad told him that cross country was for "people who aren't good at anything else." Since Parker is the 25K US Champion, I'd say he is plenty good at running and good thing he kept begging to run! This weekend is the Milaca Mega Meet which is the world's largest single day cross country meet in the world. Stephanie's kids are running and I'm hoping to go watch them. My boys ran in the meet from 2008 through 2017. It's a fun meet where there are separate races for grades 7,8,9 and 10 plus JV and four divisions of varsity races. My oldest, Blake, earned ribbons and medals several years. David earned some individual ribbons and even a trophy when he was 4th as a 9th grader. But more impressive was his faithful group of running friends who managed to win their team division as 7th, 8th, and 9th graders, then on varsity in 10th and 11th grades. When they were seniors, their coach opted them up to the largest division to get more prepared for State and while they did not win, they put on an impressive performance. I'm really missing not being a cross country mom if you can't tell :-) . I especially miss Taco Night on the eve of the Mega Meet. We hosted supper with lots of tacos, fruit and all the fixings. It was always fun to have the guys around on a day they weren't nervous about their running. Here's one last piece of Mega Meet nostalgia with David's senior year race. It was a super hot and sweaty day, but he ran excellent. We were already blogging then...check out our archives from Mega Meets past. If you are looking for a good podcast for running, driving or cleaning the house, I hope you'll give Another Mother Runner or C Tolle Run a try. I find them entertaining. If you have a good suggestion for a podcast for me to try, please put it in the Comments. Happy running! Missee
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AuthorMissee and Stephanie are two Minnesota sisters and moms who love to run. We are not experts in running, parenting or anything else, but we do have years of experiences that may be helpful or entertaining to others. Archives
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