A healthy-living blog focused on providing resources for runners.
If you watched the USA Track and Field Championships this weekend, you saw some incredible things happen. The fairytale endings and ridiculous finishes we saw are the culmination of years of hard work, persistence and long-term goal setting. These moments are brief, but the work that leads up to the them is long. It’s easy…
Maddie was my first running buddy at CU. I was coming back from two surgeries and she was nice enough to run easy with me when I definitely couldn’t run faster than 8 minute mile pace. We were both kinda starting from nowhere as far as college running goes, but we had big dreams. Maddie…
Lauren Goss was a casual runner and former swimmer when an encounter with a sober triathlete at a bar struck her interest in a new sport. She competed in her first sprint triathlon in college and has been hooked ever since. Now, she’s a professional triathlete living and training in Boulder. She just won the…
Hey. So if you’re anything like me, you thrive off of having a super busy schedule, love the challenge of hard work, and feel kinda weird and lost without structure and a plan. Sitting for too long makes you antsy and when you feel like you’re “not doing enough” or not challenging yourself in your…
I did it Mom Well! The day has come. I wrote this book about getting the most out of college running without sacrificing your health or your overall happiness. These are revelations I had during and after college that I thought would be great to share with others so they don’t make my same mistakes. Go…
“Hitting reset”, when it comes to running, is a way of stepping back completely, recovering, and returning as a healthier and refreshed athlete. It’s necessary after after wading through a pile of injuries, fatigue, less-than-perfect seasons and/or disappointment, but it’s definitely not an easy decision to make. My post “It’s OK to Quit Running“, received a lot…
QUIT RUNNING. That’s my advice to a few of you. A few of you that have lost your passion for running; are struggling to stay healthy; are stuck in an endless cycle of injuries and stress fractures; and those of you that feel that you have nothing else to offer outside of running. Stop pushing…
