Finding Finish Lines

Doesn't it feel a little bit like as soon as we get used to a new normal right now, something comes up and we need to take a break or pivot? Nothing about 2020 is "Steady State."

Which got me thinking…

Garmin devices are down all over and athletes everywhere are having a bit of an existential crisis: If it's not recorded, did we even workout? 

Y'all this isn't a disaster! It's a gift from 2020. (See…

Girl! You are holding way too much all the time!

You are making incredibly hard decision after incredibly hard decision.

You are still doing allllll of the things for alllll of the people.

Maybe you ar…

Just about all of us have been handing the disappointment of cancelled, deferred, shifted-to-virtual race announcements. We have come to expect them here in 2020 in America, and it's likely the right…

Are you still doing your workouts outside?

Great!

If not, did you now that you can actually train your body to adjust to the heat? Yup. It's going to be miserable at first. That's true. It's also tru…

It might sound a little woo woo, but it's actually super practical to consider that the best way to stay in the game is to practice love over fear.

We have to love ourselves enough to believe that we…

Just this week, several huge races had to cancel their upcoming events. It stinks. No doubt.

But even though your big running or triathlon event might have been deferred, the only person deferring yo…

Let's take a look at why we come to endurance sports like running and triathlon. I mean anything from a 5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon, ultra racing, sprints, 70.3, Ironman...any of them.

After list…

Are there words that you are holding onto as part of your identity that really just don't describe you anymore?

Clumsy. Weak. Lazy. Fat...

"You couldn't possibly run a half marathon!" 

Whatever they hec…

Once we are a little lost in our athlete lives, how do we get back on track?

I'm not sure why we are like this, but so often we can almost convince ourselves that our past achievements mean nothing ab…

Whether you are just starting a running or walking program, are coming back from a long break, or even if you are a regular runner now, join me as I share my hard-won tips for how to stay comfortable…

In order to thrive, both as athletes and as people living in society with one another, is to recognize that:

1. We are all living in a fluid state of contraction and expansion
2. The power is in the qu…

This is our time to shine, powerful women athletes.

We spend our free time training to control the controllables. We pay for opportunities to practice the skill, we base our lives around it, we brag …

Have you ever heard about another woman operating with superhuman strength or endurance? Maybe you haven't even allowed yourself to imagine doing something like that.

Well, when Sarah, a working mom …

Hey. Come closer. I have a secret for you.

You are ENOUGH. 

I know it feels like everyone else is already faster or fitter, but that's just the way the social media beast of an algorithm tells fibs. 

If…

"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?"

A friend asked me that question some months back and it set me on a trajectory to chase a new goal. So now I ask you the same question.

Now let's ad…

The normal ways that we evaluate ourselves against impossible societal standards are shifting. It can be hard for brave & wonderful women to know just how we are stacking up.

(I hope you can read the…