Amy Laub is a 47-year-old runner from Los Gatos, CA, who has regularly competed in track events ranging in length from 800m to 5K before recently stepping up to distances between 5k and half marathon. Amy recently attended our June ’16 Women’s Running Camp and shared a wonderfully inspiring story one day while the group […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text margin_bottom=”0″] Patrice Hubbard from St.Petersburg, Florida, attended a Positive Race Workshop that we held at the Yellowstone half marathon earlier in June, a race of many firsts for her. She is a vibrant, larger than life character who has found that running has changed her view of her world, and herself. We recently caught […]
Lisa Marshall is an award-winning health and medical science journalist whose work has taken her to parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. An avid runner, she lives in the foothills west of Boulder with her husband and two children, and has completed a remarkable ten marathons to date. Here she reflects on her experiences […]
Terry is a Brit who now calls Estes Park, Colorado his home. He has been an endurance runner for nearly 35 years, running 100 yards and 220 yards on the track back in his school days. Terry and his wife Jacqueline came to Colorado in 2006 with the dream of setting up Active at Altitude, […]
Melissa Roberts is an Estes Park native, and has helped hundreds of people overcome chronic health issues as a acupuncturist in Estes since 2001. In her free time, Melissa is an endurance athlete, and uses Rocky Mountain National Park as her playground for training for marathons and triathlons. She also enjoys spending time with her […]
Carolyn Weber is an Illinois native, currently living in Pocatello, Idaho. She is presently an assistant professor at Idaho State University, and is a runner. Carolyn first came to one of our camps in May 2012, spending 7 days in the company of an eclectic group of women runners. Like every returning runner, it has […]
This week’s positive running story is about a runner that ran her first half marathon in March this year. Many runners do that at each year, in fact nearly 30% of the runners at the 2016 Zion Half Marathon were first timers for 13.1 miles. The difference for Melissa Kukulski was that she was told […]
Everything starts with a dream. This positive running story is all about a dream that was on a trail runner’s mind, wondering if her dream could actually come true. Mirabelle Tinio, a trail runner from Vancouver, Canada, contacted me about attending one of our camps in 2012, and wondered if our camp could help her […]
You’ve signed up for a marathon and are ready to tackle the training. You’ve got a 20 week training plan, strength and ab workouts, and a 10 class-pack to the local yoga studio. But running is as much a mental sport as it is physical, and it’s just as important to train your mind as it […]
We can learn a huge amount about positive reinforcement from elite athletes. They are, or have been, faced with demons just like the rest of us – after all they are human too, even if their performances may seem superhuman to us! One of the many benefits that top level athletes have is that they […]
