Have you started creating your personal guide to health and performance? I’ve used a few tools to work toward creating my athlete user manual. 1) Inside Tracker Biomarker Analysis, 2) Body composition testing, 3) Heart rate monitored test effort, 4) Keeping a training log, and 5) Identifying my physical strengths, weaknesses, and imbalances. In my […]

Whether it’s with training, racing, treatment modalities, or nutrition, the physiologist in me always likes to experiment. With the ever changing ideas about optimal training, health, and nutrition and the fact that EVERY BODY IS UNIQUE, finding the best way to keep yourself healthy and fit should be an evolving process. I’ve learned from the […]

This weekend was my first Atlas Race and only my third ever obstacle course race. After a fun and challenging experience at the Warrior Dash in the Fall, I took the great opportunity to join the Atlas Pro Team. So I approached this weekend’s Atlas Race as a learning opportunity. What did I learn? 1) […]

A couple weeks ago, friend and fellow blogger Becca Rhodes with Caffeinate Your Life nominated my blog for a Liebster Award. You can get to know me a little better by reading that post (click here), but I also hope you’ll take a minute to check out the blogs of some of my Liebster Award […]

Although we don’t always look good when we cross the finish line, I think there is some truth to the saying “look good, feel good.” But more importantly, if we make something about race day special, we often get a little added energy and confidence. Not all of us can pull off the lacey cap […]

I have been nominated for the Liebster award by Becca Rhodes with Caffeinate Your Life! The Liebster award is given from one blogger to another as a fun way to get to know new bloggers a little better. How it works is I answer the 11 questions my nominator gave me. I will nominate 11 […]

In high school I was a multi-sport athlete, soccer and a little cross country in the Fall, basketball in the Winter, and cooking and restaurant management competitions in the Spring (yes, I actually lettered in culinary). Although these were distinct seasons of training and competition, there was also a great deal of cross over and […]

So, a lot of people have asked what got me started in obstacle racing and trail running this year. It goes back to that bittersweet feeling after the last track race of the season. Getting a little better every year isn’t enough when everyone else is getting better too, which means training has to be […]

Thanks to some amazing people in my life and some incredible opportunities, 2014 has been an adventure that I’m really excited to continue into 2015. The highlights of the year have come in the last several months, with my wins at the Warrior Dash World Championship and Xterra Trail Run World Championship. But so much […]

Terrified. That’s the only way to describe how I felt the night before the Warrior Dash World Championship. I had done one other low key obstacle race to qualify for this one, in which Julia Webb smoked me on every obstacle. Luckily, the steep hill climbing on that course saved me. But as we previewed […]