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Can You Maintain Or Improve Your Cycling Performance As You Age?
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we answer listener questions about whether we can still make progress as we age. Can we perform as well or better? and what is the difference between health, fitness and performance? We also discuss what it means if...
Well, We Made It Through Blue Monday + Quitters Day!
The third Monday in January is also known as Blue Monday, and apparently is the most depressed day of the year. And bonus, it's followed by 1/19, deemed Quitters Day by Strava as the day most people stop their resolutions. Insert Sad Trombone Here. It's the week most...
Do You Need a Sunday Reset as an Athlete?
I love a Sunday Reset in general, as someone who works for herself and as someone who—by nature of working for herself from home—tends to have a few household things pile up over the course of the workweek. But I’m also realizing that a Sunday Reset is also an...
Training
A Couple Important Night Running Lessons I Learned
You're only as good as your headlamp! That's it. That's the post. But seriously. I don't do a lot of nighttime running, simply because my more flexible work schedule means that I can train in the daylight, and I am pretty big on having evenings at home whenever...
Going to the Leadville 100 MTB Race? Start Your Training Now with Our 8-Month Training Plan
The 2022 Leadville 100 Mile MTB Training Plan is here and ready to help you get ready for the race! Sure, race day isn't until August, but starting now maximizes your training potential over the next 8 months, and sets you up to crush it on race day. And our plan is...
Crewing Tips for Ultra-Running: How to Crew for a Runner Doing a Big Race
I can now say that I've been on all sides of the ultra-running equation: I've been a crew member, I've been a pacer, and I've had a crew and a pacer. Back in September when I was part of the group that was crewing and pacing my friend Karen to her epic FKT of the...
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Mindset
New Date for How To Be Outside Speaker Series Announced: October 9, 2020
On October 9, 2020, rather than retreating to our sofas for another night of Netflix, or heading to the basement for another treadmill sufferfest, let's come together and talk about a topic that is near and dear to our hearts: How to Be Outside. The speaker series was...
How To Be Outside INSIDE: Free Virtual Summit at 8PM on April 18
Join us on Zoom and on Facebook Live and @MollyJHurford's Instagram Live on April 18, 2020 at 8PM for a 90-minute preview of what's coming at the How To Be Outside Speaker Series when we can all congregate in real life in Fall 2020. (If you join on Zoom, you'll be...
Healthy Living a Week Into Self-Quarantine
We're more than a week into self-quarantine and it's been interesting to see how quickly we've adapted routines not just to being in the house, but to being home in general. In some ways, I was already heading towards this even before we had to actually get into...
Nutrition
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Lifestyle
Live a Great Story: Austin, Texas
These stickers are everywhere in Texas: Live a Great Story. What awesome advice! So, this is my Austin story. I think it was pretty great. Last week, I headed to Austin, Texas, for the second time this year. The first time was the wet, chilly week in January when US...
My (Seriously) Life-Changing Sneakers: VivoBarefoot Evo Pure
A barefoot shoe that feels truly barefoot, works on the road and on the trails, looks good, and feels comfortable walking, running or hanging out, even on the first wear? Yeah, that's a shoe that I want to keep around. The VivoBarefoot name is pretty well known...
Working with Badass Women: The Journey
Growing up, as a rule, I didn’t have many female friends. Blame it on the fact that my neighbor was a daredevil boy who baited me into being part of his adventures, or a clique-y middle school (think Mean Girls but not as well dressed/without people actually...
Women Specific
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Gear
Road Pedals, MTB Pedals, or Flat Pedals?
Pedal choice may not seem like something that should be contentious but there is something about using clipless pedals over flat pedals (and vice-versa) that sparkes polarizing discussions and screaming matches. There is also enough 'cross' over thanks to disciplines...
Making Your First Custom Cycling and Running Kit
For 2020, I've started working with custom athletic clothing brand Champion System to create some wicked custom Shred Girls kit for me to shred on bikes and on trails in this season, and going through their custom design process was super interesting. I've never been...
8 Products I Loved in 2019… And 4 I’m Excited About for 2020!
2019 was a solid year as far as cool new (or new-to-me) products went, but I have to admit, I spent more of the season actually whittling down my collection of gear, letting go of some of my (older) bikes, handing off some kit to younger riders in the NJ NICA leagues,...
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