I recently returned from coaching at our Runners Connect retreat in Orlando, Florida and I have a completely new view on that part of the country. We ran our long run on this amazing rural, packed clay road that wound through rolling, open pasture dotted with orange groves. The temperature was perfectly cool and the […]
From War Zones to Ultra Podiums: Joshua Stevens
For my first episode hosting the Run to the Top Podcast, I wanted to have a guest that I knew listeners would love and one that I felt really comfortable with. So I asked Badwater Ultra Cup Champion (and my old running buddy) Joshua Stevens to be on the show. In this episode, I talk […]
The Run To the Top Podcast Has a New Host (and it’s me!)
I’ve been waiting nearly three years to write this. When Tina Muir, the original host of the number one running podcast left to start her own business, I applied for her old job as the host of Run To the Top. I didn’t get it. But I have been podcasting ever since on RTTT’s sister […]
How Dry January Can Help Boost Performance
It’s the end of January as I write this and if you’ve been like me and kept the month dry of alcohol, you are probably (like me!) looking forward to February. I’ve gone a month without alcohol before and it’s typically been strategically timed for the month ahead of a major marathon for me. Now, […]
Lift Slow, Run Fast
Most runners know that they need to do some kind of strength work, right? I find that there are two kinds of runners: those who know they should lift weights, but hate it so they don’t do it, and those who treat the weight room just like they do their running and attack it with […]
Portugal Running Retreat
That. Was. Amazing. I have just returned from Europe where I went to coach our first Runners Connect Running Retreat in southern Portugal. (Have I mentioned lately that I love my job?) This trip was incredibly special to me because I had lived in Spain in college but I haven’t been back to Europe since […]
Recharge Your Running with a Running Retreat
As a kid, I went to camp every summer and loved every second of it. Today, as a parent, I send my own kids to camp and hope that they come back with all the memories of fun times that I did. Maybe it’s because so many of us grown ups went to camp as […]
Find Your Happy Pace
For the third year, I’ll be pacing the two hour group at the Asheville Half Marathon this weekend. Since the course is front loaded with hills the first 5-6 miles, it does not make sense for anyone actually trying to run two hours to run even splits. So I plan to run by effort again […]
The Slow Simmer
It’s been a little quiet around here. I know. The truth is that I’ve been having a little identity crisis with my running and I wasn’t sure how to articulate how I was feeling about it. Running has truly become part of my identity, so figuring out how to be okay with myself as a […]
‘Tis the Season for Overdressing
“There’s no such thing as bad weather. Only inappropriate clothing.” I don’t know who said that, but he probably was a runner. A runner who ran in the cold, wet, rain. I admit that I would take the heat over the cold any day, but I would go insane if I had to spend the […]
