#379: Runner Identity + Its Effect on Health

Sarah and Ellison jump into the topic of identifying as a runner—and how wearing that mantle affects your health and lifestyle choices. The duo talks with a researcher plus two real-life mother runners, addressing issues like: -ways to get comfortable calling yourself a runner; -why ID’ing as a runner helps make exercise a stick-with-it habit; -how a health scare made one BAMR jump on the exercise bandwagon; -the ways being a single parent stripped one woman of her athletic identity; -how one mother runner is trying to get over her “imposter syndrome.” Books recommended in the intro conversation are Less by Andrew Sean Greer; American Spy: A Novel by Lauren Wilkinson; Haunting Paris by Mamta Chaudhry; and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. The runner-ID conversation begins at 16:25. Discover the immersive total-body training you can get from Peloton Tread. To get $100 off accessories with purchase of a Tread, go to onepeloton.com and use code amr Thanks, Cove. For a limited time, get your doctor consultation and first month of treatment for just $30, with no medical insurance required, at withcove.com/amr Get started today at StitchFix.com/KIDS/AMR to try Stitch Fix with no styling fee and get an extra 25% off when you keep everything in your box!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices