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Motivation Monday (and a thing called back-to-back)

Posted on 21. Nov, 2011 by Sarah.

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Happy Monday kids! And when I say kids you can be 3 years old or 73 years old – we’re all kids at heart ! In the USA it is Thanksgiving week and food temptation abounds! And maybe that time of year when working out gets put on the back burner. Why throw away all [...]

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November 18, 2011 (100 Mile Training Journey)

Posted on 18. Nov, 2011 by Sarah.

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When I was training for my 1st 100miler in 2009 I kept you informed via this site PLUS videos. Partly because I got questions on what my training was like and partly because when I am 80 years old it might be fun to show my grandkids what grandma did way back when. So. Here [...]

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Marathon Training is For Real Runners

Posted on 07. Sep, 2011 by Sarah.

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Time and time again I hear (and see) people who don’t take training for a marathon seriously. **Note: for the sake of this article, we will focus on marathon training, but the basic principle of training applies to all race distances. And yes, the title was picked for a reason – so you would read [...]

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Run to Overcome

Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Sarah.

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We run for lots of reasons. For causes/charity. For peace. From bad memories. To give others hope. Perhaps for love. Or maybe to prove something. We run to overcome. We run to deal with grief. We run to celebrate milestones. We train in the snow, heat, rain. We deal with injuries. We set PR’s. Or [...]

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Keep Your Cool

Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by Sarah.

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We all have heard the phrase “pain is weakness leaving the body”. I hate this phrase. While we should push ourselves beyond the point of comfort, we shouldn’t be stupid. **Note: there is a difference between emotional pain, telling yourself you can’t pain and thinking you can out run heatstroke “pain”. I have seen many [...]