1. Running is about empowerment. Running does wonders for your body…sure. But the real wonder comes in how it makes a person feel. Running is feminism at its finest. When you run you OWN yourself, your body, your breath, your thoughts and your intention. Running with your daughter provides her with the experience of body [...]
The Summer of Doing It All
September 5, 2012 By 3 Comments
The Swim, Bike, Run-A-Marathon Twice, Produce a Fitness Video, Train a Running Crew, Teach Classes, Hold Down a Full-Time Job, and Try Not to Have a Nervous Breakdown Diaries! This summer was incredibly busy — it has absolutely flown by. I simply can’t believe it has almost come to an end. I have lots of [...]
My Best Running Buddy
August 17, 2012 By 7 Comments
On the rare occasions we run together, it’s generally only for a few miles. She will urge me on ahead or turn around before I’m ready to go back. During our too-infrequent visits, she will wake and run early in the morning, come home to find me still logy from sleep and foraging through her [...]
Running Tragedies & How to Stay Safe
July 31, 2012 By 15 Comments
On January 7, 2012, my cousin, Sherry Arnold did not return from an early morning run through the streets of her hometown of Sidney, Montana. She seemed to have disappeared into thin air, a very uncharacteristic behavior for this mother of two. I still get goose bumps when I remember the call I received that [...]
Ultra Racing: Journey Into the Unknown
July 9, 2012 By 4 Comments
Ultra races and life have a lot in common. In their own way, they’re both long journeys where you’re never quite sure what’s going to come next. This past weekend I set out for my tenth 50-mile ultra running race, high in hills of the beautiful San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It just so happened [...]
Big, Strong, Beautiful, Bold: Sierra’s Story
June 28, 2012 By 11 Comments
I live and breathe in the world from the view of an eight year-old girl. I just love kids. When I started Girls on the Run, the obesity issue wasn’t much talked about. That was sixteen years ago. As anyone who reads the news knows… it is much talked of now. Couple this with the [...]
100 Miles in My Size 11 Shoes
June 20, 2012 By 16 Comments
SAN DIEGO 100 RACE REPORT – PART 1 The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart. –Bill Bowerman This report isn’t about running. It’s not about nutrition, hydration, race strategy, or how I avoided getting blisters behind my toenails. It’s not about the number [...]
Falling
June 3, 2012 By 13 Comments
I am running uphill, not fast, having a conversation in my head with him, wishing I had said the same things but differently, wishing I hadn’t seen the hurt land on his face like that, wishing I had more tact, less candor; wishing for restraint, for subtlety, for the ability to blind myself to the [...]
Cancer Treatment is Like Training for a Marathon
May 29, 2012 By 8 Comments
When I ran my first marathon, the 2010 Disney World Marathon, to celebrate turning forty, I had no idea what a roller coaster ride the next two years would be — not just for me, but for my friends and family. In the span of two years, I went from being in great physical condition, [...]
Spirit-Girl
May 25, 2012 By 4 Comments
I’ve been in the business of empowering girls since 1996 when I founded Girls on the Run. The goal of our program is to provide girls with the tools, strength and inspiration to, as one girl shared with me, “discover the center of who I am.” Thanks to our partnership with Athleta, so many of [...]
