Episode 53 | Jaime Maher on Reframing Your Mindset in Life and Running
by Nikki Parnell — April 23, 2021 — 📸: Mile 90 Photography
This week we talk with Jaime Maher – an ultrarunner, mother, behavior consultant, coach, run club leader and positive impact maker on everyone she meets. To give a snapshot of that last qualification listed, this is how she runs (and wins) ultras: she smiles through every second of the race, slows down and talks to every single person she passes and knows everyone’s life story by the time they cross the finish line. And did I mention that she still wins?!
One of Jaime’s superpowers is reframing the negative – in life and running – and turning it positive. She helps runners do this along race courses and she helped Stef and I with reframing current parenting struggles (thank you Jaime!)! She reminded us that, “Everything is temporary – the good the bad and the ugly, whether it’s in life, whether it’s in running, whatever it is, it’s all temporary so just soak it up. Even the pain! Soak it up because you can use that later to your advantage.”
Jaime and her husband have a sweet partnership and are an ultrarunning power couple. Together they lead a 1,700+ member running club based out of St. Louis where they foster a welcoming and uplifting place for the running community to come together. We also get to hear the story of when they both trained for and raced THE SAME 100 miler (that’s hard for parents to do!), what the race was like, how Jaime got through a hypothermic experience, and how it went having both parents recover from a 100 mile journey. She shares how she trains as a busy mom, the key being that every mile has purpose (quality vs. quantity) and she prioritizes cross training and one day off a week which means that she never went over a 67.3 mile week in prep for her 100 miler! That’s good news for any mom wanting to tackle a big distance but feels too overwhelmed at the time it would take to try.
We’re lucky that Jaime shared her “highly excitable” nature and encouraging mindsets with us and we hope you love this episode as much as we do! To listen, click the link below or search “Run Hard Mom Hard” on any podcast platform. Don’t forget to subscribe and share with the runners in your corner! Thank you!
Show Notes:
Follow Jaime on instagram
Check out Jaime and Ryan’s Arch City Run Club on Facebook!
Get in touch with Jaime about run coaching and check out her website!
Jaime’s husband’s pod: The Endurance House Podcast
Jaime’s Fave Race: Voyageur 50
Jaime’s Fave Meal: Tuscan Chicken made by her 7 year old, Dempsey!
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