Finding Finish Lines
Let's drop expectations, judgement, comparison, pretense, ego, and anything else that threatens to stand in our way as we chase our endurance goals. I'm Sally. I'm an unashamed middle-of-the-pack marathoner, triathlete, mom, wife, and friend trying to juggle all the good things. Hang around here long enough and I'll have you believing that you can do anything...and hitting that register button. Join us for full episodes on Mondays and a quick, powerful pep-talk on our Five-Minute-Friday episodes. See ya at the start line!
Episodes
44 episodes
Running Intervals: The 2020 Running Method
Doesn't it feel a little bit like as soon as we get used to a new normal right now, something comes up and we need to take a break or pivot? Nothing about 2020 is "Steady State."Which got me thinking: maybe that's no so bad! In fact, a ...
•
Episode 43
•
21:00
Five Minute Friday: Garmin is DOWN.
Garmin devices are down all over and athletes everywhere are having a bit of an existential crisis: If it's not recorded, did we even workout? Y'all this isn't a disaster! It's a gift from 2020. (See this is the only way we are mak...
•
Episode 42
•
5:36
Five Minute Friday: Whole is Better Than Perfect
Girl! You are holding way too much all the time!You are making incredibly hard decision after incredibly hard decision. You are still doing allllll of the things for alllll of the people.Maybe you are still holding a vis...
•
Episode 41
•
5:51
Will You Be A Yes To Racing?
Just about all of us have been handing the disappointment of cancelled, deferred, shifted-to-virtual race announcements. We have come to expect them here in 2020 in America, and it's likely the right and responsible thing to do. So when...
•
Episode 40
•
28:14
Five Minute Friday: Life in 2020 Is Running in the Heat
Are you still doing your workouts outside? Great! If not, did you now that you can actually train your body to adjust to the heat? Yup. It's going to be miserable at first. That's true. It's also true that the only way to the ot...
•
Episode 39
•
6:01
Love over Fear
It might sound a little woo woo, but it's actually super practical to consider that the best way to stay in the game is to practice love over fear. We have to love ourselves enough to believe that we are capable of achieving our goals e...
•
Episode 38
•
20:20
Five Minute Friday: Love Is Not Cancelled
Just this week, several huge races had to cancel their upcoming events. It stinks. No doubt. But even though your big running or triathlon event might have been deferred, the only person deferring you big acts of love is you.Don...
•
Episode 37
•
5:33
When We Break the Chains
Let's take a look at why we come to endurance sports like running and triathlon. I mean anything from a 5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon, ultra racing, sprints, 70.3, Ironman...any of them.After listening to some of the stories that we ...
•
Episode 36
•
22:38
Five Minute Friday: Who Said You Couldn't?
Are there words that you are holding onto as part of your identity that really just don't describe you anymore?Clumsy. Weak. Lazy. Fat..."You couldn't possibly run a half marathon!" Whatever they heck the words are ...
•
Episode 35
•
5:35
Rebounding After Going Off-Plan
Once we are a little lost in our athlete lives, how do we get back on track?I'm not sure why we are like this, but so often we can almost convince ourselves that our past achievements mean nothing about who we are or what we are capable...
•
Episode 34
•
24:01
Five Minute Friday: Pivot When Plans Change
I’m positive that 20 years from now, I’ll look back on 2020 as the year that I learned how to pivot when plans change. This week, I have been thinking about how all of us are becoming absolute experts on how to thrive in an environm...
•
Episode 33
•
5:50
Great Running Gear for Beginners
Whether you are just starting a running or walking program, are coming back from a long break, or even if you are a regular runner now, join me as I share my hard-won tips for how to stay comfortable out on the run! Do you have any runn...
•
Episode 32
•
32:40
Five Minute Friday: You Are Good Enough
I wish you could hear how your actions speak so much louder than the words that you use to hide from your greatness. If you are brave. If you lace up those shoes, or squeeze into the suit, or practice those transitions, then I thin...
•
Episode 31
•
5:38
Contraction, Expansion, and Quiet Hard Work
In order to thrive, both as athletes and as people living in society with one another, is to recognize that:1. We are all living in a fluid state of contraction and expansion2. The power is in the quiet, hard work.Please kno...
•
Episode 30
•
26:39
Why Worry? Control The Controllables, Brave Athletes
This is our time to shine, powerful women athletes. We spend our free time training to control the controllables. We pay for opportunities to practice the skill, we base our lives around it, we brag about it to unsuspecting non-enduranc...
•
Episode 29
•
5:56
100 Mile Ultra Racing with Sarah
Have you ever heard about another woman operating with superhuman strength or endurance? Maybe you haven't even allowed yourself to imagine doing something like that. Well, when Sarah, a working mom of two beautiful kids, found herself ...
•
Episode 28
•
41:24
Feeling Defeated? This Will Make You Show Up Right Now.
Hey. Come closer. I have a secret for you.You are ENOUGH. I know it feels like everyone else is already faster or fitter, but that's just the way the social media beast of an algorithm tells fibs. If you go out...
•
Episode 27
•
5:53
Dream Thieves & The Proven Power of Being Brave
"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?"A friend asked me that question some months back and it set me on a trajectory to chase a new goal. So now I ask you the same question. Now let's address 3 of the most common li...
•
Episode 26
•
25:33
Five Minute Friday: 3 Powerful Tests To Know If You Are Doing Great
The normal ways that we evaluate ourselves against impossible societal standards are shifting. It can be hard for brave & wonderful women to know just how we are stacking up. (I hope you can read the sarcasm in my voice there. Much ...
•
Episode 25
•
5:04
All You Need to Know to runDisney For The First Time
It's almost general registration day for the 2021 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend! To celebrate, a couple of my runDisney race partners have joined me to share some very important runDisney information with you!If yo...
•
Episode 24
•
54:11
Five Minute Friday - Built on Good: Starting Somewhere
I was listening to media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk this morning when he said something that stopped my in my tracks. He said, "You can build a billion dollar empire on good."It got me thinking, w...
•
Episode 23
•
5:43
A Sport Fitness Community with Coach Maria Trees
In our sport fitness life, we are all navigating between reasons and results. Beachbody Coach and friend, Maria Trees, joins us today to share how finding a community in running, and later through her home workout programs, makes showing up for...
•
Episode 22
•
35:54
Inspiring Women in Recovery are Absolutely Welcome
Though it might seem like every woman in the world (except you) is handling this pandemic life by pulling a cork before the afternoon, it's just not true! For the incredibly brave women handing all of the responsibilities of this pandem...
•
Episode 21
•
5:07
Awesome Peloton Alternatives You Need To Know
It's Spring of 2020 and many of us are searching for ways to bring the joys of outdoor training indoors. Whether it's the weather, childcare constraints, circumstances in your area or out of an abundance of caution, it has become more desirable...
•
Episode 20
•
33:45
