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Who's heading to the NYC Marathon?! 🏃🏻‍♂️🙌 Join me and others at a Group run w/
@TeamStopTheClot x @hoka
on Sat. at 10AM at 5th Ave! We'll run about 3 miles (5km) easy towards Central Park. All levels welcome! Hope to see you there! ✅ www.eventbrite.com/e/shakeout-run-in-nyc-tickets-1…

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Anyone ride gravel bikes? After having a road bike in Boulder (good pavement!) and then getting a full suspension mountain bike for gnarly singletrack in the mountains of CO...I've finally gotten on a ‪@poseidonbike‬ (X Gen3) Gravel Bike 🚲: and wow this is fun! The best non-impact xc for runners?!

2 months ago | [YT] | 4

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Over on our ‪@HigherRunning‬ Coaching Channel we have a new informative Training Talk video up by our very talented Running Coach Rachael! It's on "Age Considerations For Training as more of a 'Masters Level' Runner"...(however the tips may also apply to you younger whippersnappers in your 20s and 30s too!). Check it out there and thanks for your support!

3 months ago | [YT] | 9

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✅Do you HAVE to run the 100-mile distance? 🏃🏻‍♂️🙌 Why don't "sub-ultra" mountain races get the media attention and respect that some "shorter races" might not get? In a new film 🎞️ over at ‪@mutrunning‬ we asked several world-class mountain-trail runners this question. Check it out here! A new film on #trailrunning by Stephen Gnoza:

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Laugh of the Day! 🤣 Gotta admit this animation by ‪@TheSeriousShow‬ is pretty spot on for the state of some "Influencer Running" these days! 🏃🏻‍♂️🙌: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LTp...

5 months ago | [YT] | 20

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So let me get this straight..."Runna" did a sponsored "5km Race" event
in NYC recently and made the road course (an "out and back" course no less!) like 2.9 miles long (an actual 5km is 3.11 miles in distance)...is this so everyone could like inflate their times and be more likely to get a "PR"? What a joke! No, it's not legit if you didn't actually run the full distance. Maybe add like a full minute to your time! Here on Strava we see dozens of data points that a GPS device should actually read more like 3.15 miles + for an accurately measured 5km (due to not running perfect tangents, wheel measurement, USATF standards of cert. etc). What's happened to the honesty and integrity that used to be so cornerstone in our sport of distance running? The value of a standard race distance?! If a course or race event (especially a road event!) is short...then own up to it! People make mistakes (intentional or not). Even running "influencers" should know better than to promote this crap and fakeness... otherwise just call it a "fun run that was short of 5km" or a "park run roughly near 3 miles" or something. 🤷🏻‍♂️. We don't need this fake inflation these days imo.

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Exactly 4 years ago my life changed forever (pictured): I was hospitalized and diagnosed with a bilateral pulmonary embolism (substantial blood clots in both lungs)🫁 ❤️‍🩹🩸It’s likely I had been suffering from this for 5 weeks: I wasn’t able to run at all because of labored breathing, I had been coughing up blood, and the pains in my lower back and chest were so intense I couldn’t lay down to sleep some nights. Eventually chest pain that felt like I was going to have a heart attack prompted me to have @sandinypaver drive me to the hospital (my fears of a 5-figure medical bill 💰instantly became true despite having health insurance). Financial stress had caused hesitation despite the pain.

✅However #pulmonaryembolism s and #bloodclots are life threatening conditions and it’s worth following @stoptheclot for educating yourself on the signs and symptoms. 🩸

In my case, since blood had been blocked from some of my lung tissue for so long, the tissue started dying and scarring. The result of this has changed my #running ability and breathing as my once lab tested Vo2max dropped from about 69 pre-embolism to being tested at 45-47 more recently. Running up mountains (what I used to consider my biggest forte and strength) has now seemingly become my “weakness.”

Some #bloodclot and #pulmonaryembolism patients aren’t so lucky: Being in my 30s I had relative youth and fitness on my side. My heart could handle the extra pressure without going into cardiac arrest. I had no evidence of a DVT and I didn’t get a stroke. Still, the scar tissue and laboured breathing seems permanent. It’s reframed my whole relationship with not just competitive #running but also with life.

A lot of this reframing (and how the rest of my 2021 went) is captured in an excellent film called “Starting Over” by my friend and filmmaker ‪@TheSeriousRunner‬ (see 🎬 below)

Things haven’t been smooth sailing since 2021 and I often find myself still frustrated with my body and how my lungs feel now & the runner I used to be. But I’m still here! And I’m still #Running !! 🏃🏻🙌. Thanks for the continued support, @hoka @corosglobal @compressport @athletebloodtestcom @squirrels_nut_butter @strava

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✅Runners - Training for a Half Marathon?! Check out our ‪@tracer-fitness‬ x
‪@HigherRunning‬ dynamic Half Marathon Training Program here: www.tracerfitness.com/programs/higher-running-half… . Get your first 2 weeks FREE! 🏃🏻‍♂️🙌

7 months ago | [YT] | 20

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✅In Boston this weekend?! 🙋🏻‍♂️. Join me and many others for a social shake out run at 9AM at 218 Newbury Street (RSVP link below) tomorrow (Saturday). Demo the new @hoka
Clifton 10 and Cielo X1 2.0 running shoes 🏃🏻🙌. Hope to meet you there! RSVP link here: #HOKA #FlyHumanFly #BostonMarathon
hokashakeoutrunwithsagecanaday.splashthat.com/

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A must watch! 🤣https://youtu.be/F0JZm1nOUks?si=iozGj... (subscribe to ‪@TheSeriousShow‬ )

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