Running, Sustainability & Real Life

In my blog you’ll find pieces of my journey, reflections, lessons, and insights I hope you’ll carry with you.

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Training Tips

How To Learn To Love Your Body

Learn to love your body. Sounds so simple, but we all know, it’s not. It should be something we do automatically. Deep down we know how much our body does for us. We know it helps us to breathe and stay alive, carry children in our arms, give and receive…
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Beyond Running

8 Productive Things For Runners To Do While Waiting or Traveling

We love to run. It is our freedom, our self care time, our breath of fresh air in a world of never-ending to do lists and rushing from one place to the next…or lets be real, one thought to the next. We love our running, we want to get better…
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Beyond Running, Training Tips

Signs You Are Pushing Your Body Too Far

We live in a go go go world. The busier you are, the better. Who cares if you feel tired, that’s life, get on with it. It feels like everyone around you is cramming more into their morning than you get done in a day, so why are you complaining?…
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Training Tips

Be Confident For Your Next Race

When you are coming out of the deep heavy training, race day is just a few weeks away, you NEED your mind to help you, to tell you it IS possible and you CAN do this mammoth task ahead. Instead, this is a time when our heads can mess with…
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Training Tips

Stretching VS. Foam Rolling: Is There an Ideal Pre-exercise Warm-up?

Many of you LOVED my interview with the absolutely wonderful Tom Michaud. He always leaves me speechless with his knowledge and research on topics that runners are just so confused about. Tom kindly offered to write up articles on a monthly basis to give us the summary of what he…
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Training Tips

Running Safety For Runners Training in the Dark

Many runners have been waiting for this day for months; when the humidity finally lifted, you can breathe again, and the mornings feel cool and refreshing. We have been using these cool mornings as our carrot all summer, motivation to keep going, trust that it will feel amazing when it…
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Training Tips

Why Running for Time, Not Distance Might Be Best For You

REAL runners run for miles, kilometers, distance. Running by time is for the inexperienced, right? Actually, no. Running by time instead of distance might be just what you need, and since I gave it a try in early 2018, I haven’t looked back. I genuinely believe it is BETTER! I…
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Training Tips

How to Run With a Running Stroller Effectively

I never thought I would become an “expert” on this topic, and although I do not have any qualifications surrounding it, as I did recently become the first EVER mother with a running stroller to grace the cover of a fitness magazine (I think, correct me if I am wrong)…
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Training Tips

Do You Listen To Music When You Run? When To Stop.

Progression runs force you to confront those inner demons telling you that you can’t do this, they force you to notice the fatigue in your legs around halfway and say, yep, I hear you legs, but we have work to do, the second half needs to be faster than the…
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Training Tips

When You End Up With an Injury During Training for a Big Race

I get a lot of emails each week. Mostly from runners like you, who are looking for some advice, some REAL advice. Not sponsored, not biased, not judge-y. Some support for a runner from a runner without being looked at like a crazy person. As someone who owns a business…
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