As a distance runner, do you lift weights at all? A question I get asked wayyyyy too often! Growing up almost exclusively as a soccer player, the weight room was always an important and integral aspect of my training from a young age. After beginning […]
Finally, 4 days into 2019, I feel like I have had enough time to digest all that 2018 was. For me 2018 was full of both positives and challenges. I refrain from calling the adversities that I experienced in 2018 ‘negatives’ as I feel that […]
For the last few months I have been working on a bullet journal. For those of you unfamiliar with this crafty trend, you buy a blank notebook or journal and then create your own planner of sorts. This appealed to me because it was a […]
THE NEWBIE: comes late to practice on the first day, gets lost on trail runs, has no clue how to run a certain pace, no idea what racing is, running more than 1 mile a day is a HUGE accomplishment (me circa spring 2014), doesn’t […]
Out of curiosity (and being the number junky engineer that I am) I decided to create some graphs of my running times over the years. I have created graphs for several distances in the sport including both track events and cross country. While my times […]
Transition periods are weird and uncomfortable. Logistical nightmares. An anxious person’s own personal hell (@me). But at the same time, they can be exciting and are perfect opportunities for rapid growth and learning. Often, they are catalysts for some of the best experiences and memories we […]
And just like that my collegiate running career has come to an end! June 9, 2018 will forever go down in history as not only the date of the last ever steeplechase to be run at the Historic Hayward Field but also the last NCAA […]
It has been a while since I last wrote because the last few months have gone all but smoothly for me. With wisdom teeth surgery, then a case of shingles (WHAT 22 yr old gets shingles?!), all on top of the added stress and anxiety […]
A long distance runner: long, lithesome, gazelle-like, the pinnacle of physical aesthetic fitness… Right? WRONG. So very wrong. Body image issues in the running community, especially those surrounding young women like myself, are something I feel very strongly about. While I am sure this will […]
How you handle yourself in the face of adversity really defines you an individual, and this is true both on and off the course/track. So this small snippet of advice: when you fall down, get back up really has some truth to it. I have run […]
