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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Racing Tips

How to Decide What Your Race Goals Should Be

If you are in taper, if your goal marathon is still a good few months away, or even if your race is a shorter race like a 5k or 10k, as we approach race day, we start to get the question. Not just from others, but from ourselves. What are you…
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Beyond Running

Time to Say Goodbye: When You Have Grown Apart From What You Love the Most

WARNING: This is gonna be a MONSTER long post, I am literally sharing my biggest secret, the one I have kept from you this whole time. If you do not want to read the whole thing, I have made a video, which will be at the bottom. You can watch…
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Mental Training

How to Guide: Visualization for Runners

Being back at the Raleigh Relays, a meet I cherished when I was in college, brought back lots of warm memories. I always loved this event, and it gave me a great opportunity to see not only how fast time has flown by, but how far I have come. It…
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Mental Training

7 Ways to Recover Your Confidence After a Bad Race or Run

Today I wanted to talk about something that happens way more than it “should”, but based on what I talked about last week with the way social media destroys our confidence, we think we are alone in just how often we have a bad workout or race. Recovering from a…
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Training Tips

Why Hills are the Best Workout to Return to Running

It doesn’t matter if you are returning to running after an injury or getting back into shape after time off, no matter what way you look at it, running is so hard to stay positive when you feel unfit. We know in theory that everyone goes through this, but it…
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Mental Training

How to Get Over the Fear of Losing Your Fitness

A struggle very close to my heart, but yet again, a struggle that is never talked about in a real way. I am going through this right now, and it sucks. I don’t even have it that bad. Firstly, if you are in the situation where you had to have…
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Mental Training

Why It’s Okay to Admit You Are Struggling

Awhile back, it came to my mind that there was a wonderful story I wrote about a few years ago about this very thing, not speaking up. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of your competitiveness when you are just trying to enjoy a run or to even make the most…
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Training Tips

When the Soreness Has Faded

With each marathon I have done, the soreness has lasted less time, which is a good sign, right? Well yes, you don’t look like you have been beaten up while you walk around, and of course, not being in pain is good…although a sick part of me kind of likes…
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Mental Training

How to Use Mental Bottles to Believe in Yourself

I have heard about friends dedicating the final miles to loved ones and people who helped them get there. I loved the idea of that, and I believe you should give it a try to see if it helps you, but for me, I just couldn’t get it to work.…
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Training Tips

We HAVE to Believe: That Defining Moment

I remember when I was in college. When you had a bad race it seemed like the end of the world. You felt like that race would be with you for that race for the rest of your life. You could barely wait to prove yourself the next weekend in your…
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