The Another Mother Runner Meet Up and Book Signing

March 24, 2015

Thursday, March 12 was an event on my calendar I was looking forward to.  Dimity and Sarah were going to be at Fleet Feet in West Hartford and I was going to meet up with Kimberly Markey and her best friend Nicole, Kimberlee Dziezynski, and Anne Martin for dinner beforehand.

I had a blast!  It was great to see the girls outside of a race or on a plane!  We ate at Bricco in West Hartford.  The food was delicious and it was good to catch up with everyone!  Then, we walked to Fleet Feet.

There were a lot of women there and lots of activities to fill some time prior to the book readings.  I enjoyed the activity to get the names of two women there and the latest race distance they ran.  While doing this I got to meet two great women from CT One of them did the women’s triathlon last September that I was aiming to do last year but chose to sit out.  We talked and she told me all about the race and that it is not intimidating.  She opened my eyes to consider the idea of doing the tri again this year, but right now it’s not in my heart to do so.  But it was great to network with other and to talk about things that scare us.

Also while we mingled and waited for the readings we had to visit the merchandise table and the sponsor’s table and identify an item that we would like to own.  At the Saucony table I saw a few items that caught my eye.  The hipster pouch was something I was interested in, as well as the capri pants they had.

After mingling we sat down to listen to the readings from Dimity, Nicole Blades and Alison Overholt.  I heard their essays before on previous episodes of Another Mother Runner podcasts; but it was nice to hear them reading their essays in person. In between readings, Sarah and Dimity did raffle prizes for the items on the Sponsor table.  Unfortunately I was not a winner. But I had a great time!  After the event was over, I had both Sarah and Dimity sign my book and I hung around to chat with them and the other essayists, Nicole and Alison.  They are awesome and I hope to see them again at future events.

 

If you haven’t checked out their books or podcast already, visit their website and listen now! They also gave us a swag bag at the end of the night filled with all of these great products! Thank you to Nuun, RedFox Wireless, SofSole, Gu, Hylands, Runner’s High, Action Wipes, Heart Strides, and Trigger Point for contributing the Sarah and Dimity’s swag bag.

After the event was over we mingled some more, took pictures and had Sarah and Dimity sign our books and I did some shopping at the Another Mother Runner merchandise table.  One of my favorite sweatshrts is my Philly Mother Runner sweatshirt so I HAD to pick up their badass mother runner sweatshirt!  They are so soft and comfy.  I also picked up an Another Mother Runner soft baseball shirt.

It was such a great night and I know that it was a chance to see them for a book reading that may not happen again for a long time.  The next chance I may get to see them is at Wine & Dine in Disney in November.  They mentioned that they may attend that race, but if they are at a local race again like Philly then I will be sure to stop by their booth.  I keep tabs on where they are from their web site and their pod casts.  It was great to see them again and I had a great time hanging with the girls for the night!  Thank you Sarah and Dimity!