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 …
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 …