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Sierra Nevada Recovery Meal Recipes
Sierra Nevada Recovery Meal Recipes Sierra Nevada, CIM’s official beer sponsor, provides CIM a premier post-race beer garden experience for people that are passionate about fitness and an active lifestyle. Here are 2 great recipes specifically designed by...
26.2 Miles for the Babies
I’m set to run the California International Marathon in Sacramento. I’ve been training for months, but preparing for years. I’m ready to shiver, sweat, and push my way to the finish line. This will be my fifth marathon, but my first since our twins’ very...
Healthy and Safe Running: A Detailed Guide
By Summer Banks on Oct 17, 2017 Running is probably the easiest form of exercise for beginners to get into. Some of the benefits of running include burning calories, building stamina and endurance and even improve overall health. The history of...
Let’s Talk Pacing
Whether you’re running your first marathon or your 100th, finding your pace is key to a successful (and enjoyable) race. I’ve run 13 marathons and have pretty much done it all — positive split, even split, and even the elusive negative split. In this blog, I break...
Getting to the Finish Line with Positive Self-Talk
In September 2015, after I had completed four half marathons, I took the plunge of something I never expected myself to do. I registered to run my first marathon, the 2016 Santa Rosa Marathon. As someone who had only been running for a few years after a...
Do Your Own Thing
One of the most frustrating things I found when I first started running was all the advice from various articles, books, and magazines. The advice mostly pertained to fueling in terms of nutrition and hydration. What I found to be most frustrating was that each source...