By admin on July 16, 2012
By Elizabeth Jenkins So you ran the Dirty Dash? The Color Run? The Ragnar? The Salt Lake Half-Marathon? How about taking your running to the next level? Think you’ve got what it takes? There are plenty of opportunities to find out if you do over the next few months. With another marathon or half marathon [...]
Posted in General, Sports Psychology | Tagged adding miles., goals, going long, half marathon training, longer distances, running a marathon |
By admin on March 19, 2012
This post is about not giving up even when the stakes are low. You see, it’s easier to be motivated for your runs or cross training sessions when you are training for something, but what about when there aren’t any races on your horizon? Right now, I’m not training for anything other than to be [...]
Posted in General, Sports Psychology, Strength Training, Your Story | Tagged lost bag, motivation, running for fun |
By admin on January 7, 2012
t took a few years of repeating the same pattern until I started to notice a trend. I wasn’t a robot that could constantly follow the “ideal schedule” (life tends to throw things in our way) and more importantly, I would get burnt out by mid to late February and be totally bored of trying to squeeze everything in. It was starting to feel like a second or third job and the joy was gone.
Posted in Run Training, Sports Psychology | Tagged cerami, injuries, Running, Training |
By admin on September 21, 2011
By Elizabeth Jenkins You’ve already read Running For Beginners: The Right First Steps so you know way more than I did when I first started running. You have the right shoes, fit to you specifically for your Biomechanical needs, the right socks, a running buddy and a goal. Now that you have all the confidence in [...]
Posted in General, Injury Prevention, Nutrition, Run Training, Sports Psychology | Tagged conversation pace, first run, log, running log, stretching, warm-up |
By admin on August 11, 2011
To Cat-Callers, I don’t speak for all women runners when I say this, but I think the majority would agree- we love to get cat-called when we run. We love getting into a groove, only to find an entirely new groove as the sound of shouting causes our bodies [...]
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