This week we speak with Diana Norcross, a Boulder resident and member of Colorado’s Revolution Running Training Club, who managed to break down her running barriers by drawing upon the support and camaraderie she found in her local running group. Find out how Diana dealt with those early setbacks, achieved those PRs, and ended up […]
Positive running story – Amy Laub
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 […]
Positive running story – Patrice Hubbard
[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 […]
Positive running story – Lisa Marshall
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 […]
Positive running story – Mirabelle Tinio
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 […]
Positive running story – Karen Adams
For most of us, the worst we face when building up to a race is thinking about our training history, worrying about our race strategy, what is the weather going to be like, and will the alarm clock wake us up. Karen Adams from Mesquite, Nevada, may have had all the usual concerns. However, they […]
Mental training: how to prepare your mind for a race
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 […]
Positive reinforcement for you
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 […]
Visualize your best race performances
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 […]