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Why the weight room is my friend

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 my collegiate soccer career with Sweet Briar College, it became especially apparent just how much…
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Getting real- How journaling is helping me with my anxiety disorder

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 while they may have been hard times and caused me a lot of pain and…
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Jogging and Jotting

  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 great creative outlet. Working on an engineering degree for the last 5 years left me…
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The power of the newbie (mindset)

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 even own a running watch (also me when I showed up to my first day…
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Progress Report

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 only go back to the fall of 2014, when I first started my running journey,…
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The Transition from One Level to The Next

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 will ever have. I would say that my transition from collegiate to professional running has…
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