As the mugs, tea bags and lozenge wrappers piled up on my bedside table, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep again. The morning was supposed to have started with an energizing workout like every New Year’s Day. Instead, it was 3 p.m., and I hadn’t even crawled out from beneath my comforter. […] Read more
Personal records, or PRs as we so lovingly refer to them in the running world, are what many of us long for as we hit the pavement day-in and day-out. The idea of a personal best performance is exciting and scary and sometimes even beyond our current comprehension. But when it happens, personal records fill […] Read more
All week, I had been receiving emails about race day. One week to go. Your race day guide. Everything you need to know for race weekend. My clothes were laid out, and I was ready to go. There was only one small problem: I was running a different race. Rather than running the St. George Marathon, […] Read more
I have wanted to run the St. George Marathon in Utah since falling in love with Snow Canyon and everything about the surrounding area during a trip in 2013. This race has been calling my name and pulling me toward it every moment since our first encounter. I have waited patiently through pregnancy and childbirth […] Read more
There are two things my toddler and I have in common: we both love bananas, and we’re always hungry. While I’ve been known to be a human garbage disposal, especially after hard runs, my daughter has a dairy and peanut allergy that makes finding healthy snacks a bit more challenging. Banana muffins to the rescue. […] Read more