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We live in a time when it has never been easier to collect data about ourselves. We can track our sleep, recovery, stress levels, heart rate variability, glucose responses, daily movement, calorie intake, and just about every other aspect of our health. With a few taps on our phones, we can ...

Building More Than Furniture: How Assembling a Vanity Reflects Running (and Life) 

This weekend, Kevin and I spent three hours building a new vanity for our daughter. And when I say building a vanity, I mean opening a giant Amazon box and finding what felt like hundreds of pieces spread all ov...

 There's a quote I keep coming back to lately: if you stare too long at the closed door, you won’t notice the opened one behind you.

There’s been a lot on my mind lately, with our daughter graduating 8th grade, and it’s one of those bittersweet moments where I am feeling ALL the emotions. 

Ha...

When your runs start feeling harder than they “should,” most runners immediately assume the problem is their fitness.

They think they need more motivation. More mileage. More discipline. More speed work.

But what if the issue isn’t your training plan at all?

What if your body is simply carry...

Have you ever felt like you’re doing all the right things—hitting your runs, staying consistent, checking the boxes—and yet… nothing’s really changing?

Or worse… your body starts whispering (or yelling) back with tightness, fatigue, or those little nagging injuries that just won’t go away?

Th...

Every so often, something happens in sport that quietly reshapes what we believe is possible.

The recent London Marathon was one of those moments—where not one, but two runners pushed past the two-hour marathon mark. Whether you focus on the exact context or the symbolism, the impact is the sa...

Fuel Like a Runner: Stop Eating Like It Doesn’t Matter

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, in the peak of diet culture, shaped how I thought about food and my body in ways that I’m still uncovering. 

Eat less, move more. 

The next diet, diet pills, always trying to make myself smaller. 

I know I...

If you’re a runner, you probably care about getting better.

You want to run farther, feel stronger, and hit paces that used to feel out of reach. 

Maybe you just want to get stronger and be healthier. 

Either way you want to improve something.

That desire is not a bad thing. Growth is part ...

Embracing the Journey: Should You Really Do It Before You're Ready?

We hear it all the time: “Do it before you’re ready.” 

Scroll through social media, flip through a motivational book, or listen to a podcast, and this advice pops up everywhere. 

On the surface, it’s empowering—it urges you to ta...

You’ve probably heard the phrase “choose your hard.”

On the surface, it makes sense because no matter what path you take, there’s going to be some level of discomfort.

Running is hard…Not taking care of your body and dealing with the consequences of that…also hard.

Strength training is hard…...

As runners, we love a challenge. We love the doing. If we aren’t seeing the results we want, we usually think something is missing — that we need to ADD something in and do more. 

But what if it’s not about doing more?

What if you could make more progress by clearing out what’s getting in you...

Overcoming Shiny Object Syndrome: How to Stay Focused and Actually Improve Your Running

Shiny Object Syndrome.

That feeling that maybe the answer is a new training plan… a different app… a new race… or some piece of gear that’s going to finally make things click.

I’ll be honest—this is somet...