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11/10/2025

Feeling like fall 🍁 🍂 🌲

This time of year has always been a recovery phase for me. People ask me all the time what that looks like. So here it goes:

✨ prioritizing doing less as opposed to more
✨ running only when I want to and never prescribing pace or distance
✨ distributing volume evenly as opposed to having “big days” of training so no long runs, no intense workouts, and only 1-2 days where I might double up on a strength workout and an easy run
✨ taking 1-2 complete rest days a week
✨ listening to my body and if something doesn’t feel right, taking time to address it immediately as opposed to training through it
✨ planning my races and goals for 2025
✨ minimum maintenance miles — keeping the minimum base so I don’t feel like complete 💩 once I want to start building again (for me this is like 3-4 days of short runs a week)
✨ slowly getting back into a strength build. Prioritizing building and progressing strength over building mileage
✨doing a little more mobility work than I would normally. While this might sound counter intuitive, because my body is more sedentary now than it is during peak training, I find I need more of a movement practice to get it to feel good before a run.
✨ reconnect with my PTs post race and do a check in
✨ take time to do things other than run — cross train, hike with friends, socialize in a non-running setting
✨ and most importantly, taking a break from structured training and coaching. It’s nice not to have a schedule to follow and it allows me to feel like I’m listening to my body more

Right now, I’m enjoying having nothing on my race schedule for a while with the exception of the local untimed, unchipped, casual “I like pie” 🥧 run on Thanksgiving morning, and Boston marathon this spring. I know once December 6th hits that all change as I learn whether or not I got into Western States and plan my training accordingly. Until then, I’m milking this recovery phase as long as I can.

11/06/2025

Runners be like “I needed this” and it’s literally just ignoring everything else and seeing your people at the finish line. 🫶🏼

Is it time for another yet?!

Thanks to the team for the snaps.

11/04/2025

It’s actually romantic how much time I’m gonna be spending at this month serving up some spice on the Mega.

Wednesday 8:15/9:20/10:30(advanced) West
Friday 8:15/9:20 West
Sunday 9/10 Central
Monday 8:30/9:30 Central

Sign up, show up, repeat. See you all soon.
(And yeah we will play a tiny bit of Taylor this week. Sorry not sorry)

10/08/2025

On the mic quite a lot this month until I leave for AZ. Catch me if you can

Today 8:15/9:20/6pm West (Form Charleston inspired sequence and a Life of a Showgirl inspired playlist)

Friday 8:15/9:20 West

Sunday 9/10 Central

Monday 8:30/9:30 Central

next Wednesday 8:15/9:20/10:30 (advanced) West (yes there will be Superlunge)

next Friday 8:15/9:20 West

next Sunday 9/10 Central

See you back in the studio on Halloween morning. If you want a good scare, a close look at my feet after my race will suffice. 🎃

📸

09/16/2025

When a short workweek illogically feels like an eternity…

Only 35 seconds left in the plank

Only 1 minute left in runners lunge

Only 8 minutes left in class

And of course—

Only 12 hours till the series finale of TSITP comes out 😭. See you all in class West tomorrow 8:15/9:20 — no spoilers please

08/28/2025

Let’s talk about what brings you joy in running.

There’s no wrong answers and it’s one of the first things I want to know about a new athlete I’m coaching aside from their goals because I think in the end it is the number one important factor in getting people to reach those goals. Hear me out.

When someone tells you what brings them joy or what they love most about the sport you learn a lot about their personality, why they are creating goals for themselves and the things that are going to keep them motivated throughout the process.

And yeah sometimes, winning, being the best or just best version of themselves as a runner is what keeps people motivated and staying on track for goals. But in the training process if we as coaches don’t dig a little deeper into what keeps the athlete WANTING to put in the long hours and hard work, sooner or later their head and heart check out even if their body is the fittest its ever been.

So what brings YOU joy?

08/22/2025

In the 8 years since this photo was taken, I’ve run 6 more 100 milers, numerous other races. I’ve moved from my mid 30’s to mid 40’s. Lived through a pandemic for goodness sake.

To say my body doesn’t do this anymore is an understatement. Not that I can’t, but things are just different. Am I still flexible, sure. To someone that’s naturally flexible, flexibility isn’t hard (the great words of Jason Crandall right there). But I don’t even push myself here.

We evolve and grow. And there was a time where skandasana was a thing I did on the daily. Not so much any more. And not because I can’t (though that ankle dorsiflexion is a little iffy 😬). But because I don’t need to. I don’t have to prove to anyone that doing THIS pose makes me a better yoga practitioner. I don’t need THIS pose to make me a better runner (which has been my priority for the better part of a decade). I don’t need to do it for myself either.

Look, I’m glad back in 2018 I had a chance to take some cool photos. But a lot of things change over time. And judging by my dirty feet, a lot of things don’t 🤣

08/18/2025

It’s just a couple weeks from my 44th birthday and I wanted to honor that by writing a letter to my younger self. Aging isn’t linear because we don’t just get older, we evolve. So here it goes.

💃🏼 🍕 🎉 🏃🏼‍♀️ ⛰️ 🐕 🌿

You’re not going to know it, but by your mid 40’s you’re going to be fitter and more fabulous than ever before. But more importantly, you’re going to be more authentically and unapologetically yourself. You’re no longer going to be afraid of what other people think of you — to have opinions and feel secure that while you’re not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, you’ll eventually find your people and they will love you for all your quirkiness, your brashness, your love of saying the wrong things at the wrong time, the fact that you’re just as proud of your NYT crossword PR as your marathon PR and that you’re always the last to leave the party or a bar at last call. They will embrace your loud voice and your pizza earrings and call you strong in your weakest moments. And more importantly, you’ll love those parts of yourself too.

Your relationship with running and fitness will be healthy. Your body might change shapes a bit but it will be a good shape in the end. You’re still going to get carded (once in a blue moon) and you’re still going to feel young at heart.

You’ll lose friends, sure. But you’ll make key adult friendships that will grow with you. You’ll have a complex relationship with your family (as always) but it will get so much better with time.

You’ll have your own business. Be your own boss. Can you even imagine?! And you’ll get to do something you absolutely love and do it every day.

You’ll be married to an amazing man who is patient and loving and all the things you hoped for and wrote down in your little journal when you were in middle school.

You’re going to live near the mountains but travel frequently to places and people you can’t stay away from.

You’re not going to have it all figured out yet. And you’re going to make a lot of mistakes and do a lot of dumb stuff trying. But that’s ok too. The good stuff is still around the corner. Just hang in there and know the universe has your back.

📸

08/11/2025

Lately in my I’ve been trying to find sneaky ways to get extra upper body work in because I just can never get enough.

So I’ve been sequencing a little differently. It’s been a challenge because it’s easy to overload the same muscle groups and arm position causing students to then take a break which defeats the whole purpose. So I’ve been adding in a few combo moves here and there and keeping you in upper body moves a little longer. You might not even notice it at first but when I cue “we are going into our first block of arms”, there will be signs 🤣

📸 with the good snaps

08/11/2025

Dear legs, just a few more finish lines this year, I promise*…

*And then we do it all over again, I’m sorry 🤣

Tis the season to pin a bib on. Fall races are upon us and sending all the good vibes to all my athletes racing everything from Santa Rosa to Headlands to Sydney to Javelina to Lake Sonoma to Quad Dipsea to CIM and beyond. And when it comes to your legs, it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission when you find yourself browsing ultrasignup for 2026.

08/05/2025

Breakfast Club is Aug 7 8:30am!

Meet on the zoom for a little mobility and of course, catching up with the community. Plus a little early release of the “Up Marincello, Down Old Springs” sweatshirt that you’ve been waiting for. 🥳

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