Lifespan Blog Treadmills tend to take a lot of heat from runners as something that is to be dreaded which lends to their nickname as “dreadmills”. Don’t get me wrong, completing anything above 4 miles on a treadmill can feel like the equivalent achievement of …
Like a lot of good things, sometimes you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Sometimes it takes not being able to do something to realize just how much you appreciated doing that thing. I began college in the fall of 2013 and …
I think by now we can all agree that 2020 has been a year of unprecedented challenges and hardships. As the year draws to a close, it is important to take a moment to reflect on, and acknowledge, the psychological and emotional stress and trauma …
The Management of the Wolves (Canis lupus) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem By: Grayson Murphy The gray wolf (Canis lupus), a native to the greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE), has had a complicated history in the last several centuries since coming into contact with human development …
Image by Kody Kohlman As the popular Buddhist saying goes “suffering is optional”. In a year full of uncertainty and unprecedented challenges, I keep coming back to this saying to help me stay grounded. I am sure I am not alone when I …
I always thought that if someone were to describe my career in one word, I would want it to be “consistent”. I looked at “being consistent” as one of the biggest compliments I could ever receive. If people were to say “well at least she …
But what does a *trail* runner look like? Not a rhetorical question I promise, I will answer it by the end! (Just need to get out a little rant first). “You look like a marathoner.” “You look like you probably run long distances.” “How much …
You must learn to walk before you run Walking during a run? That’s absurd. Walking during a RACE? LUDICROUS. That shouldn’t ever be a sentence. Prior to my first trail race, this was my school of thought. No hill was too steep to run you …
Chapter 1- Sending it Running can be done on many different surfaces, in all sorts of distances, and in a multitude of capacities. There are running races like the Spartan series that involve obstacles like spear throwing and carrying buckets of cement. There are triathlons that …
Northern Arizona (NAZ) Elite is known as one of the best distance running groups in the nation. With multiple US Championship titles on both the men’s and women’s sides across several distances and disciplines as well as elite PR’s in events from the 1500 up …