This week we speak with Angelina Ramos, women’s cross-country/track & field distance and middle-distance coach for Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). Angelina has been training a group of eighteen athletes since being hired by SVSU in 2015 to revive the women’s distance program. The team had just come off of a bad year: SVSU had […]
Positive running story – Lauren Jones
This week we are delighted to be able to speak with Lauren Jones, trail running enthusiast and visionary behind the Denver-based Life’s 2 Short Fitness, an organization dedicated to inspiring and encouraging women to enjoy the great outdoors. We find out how Lauren developed her passion for trail running, how she connects with her joy, […]
Positive running story – Ladia Albertson-Junkans
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 […]
Undoing negative labeling
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. […]
Positive running story – Diana Norcross
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 – Terry Chiplin
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, […]
Positive running story – Melissa Roberts
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 […]