We return to Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) this week where Angelina Ramos, head coach of the women’s distance running team, recounts how her athletes fared in the 2016 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) championships following a disappointing start to the season. With confidence low and her reputation at stake, Angelina knew that change […]
This time we speak with Ladia Albertson-Junkans, newly minted team member of Team USA for the 2016 World Mountain Running Championships. Ladia hails from Minnesota, and now lives in Washington. We caught up with Ladia to find out what she enjoys about running, how to achieve a running / work balance, and her plans for […]
Labels are a way we use to identify others, and ourselves. They are the words we use to describe who we think we are, and add up to the sum of our thoughts. We repeat our thoughts often enough until they become beliefs, and we become the labels that we believe make up our identity. […]
[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 […]
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 […]
As athletes, we spend a ton of time training physically. It feels great, well most of the time, and we feel bad when we’re not training! We follow training programs to the letter, getting concerned if we have missed one session or workout, and wonder if this will impact our performance come race day. Ever […]
