Positive Results by Sabrina

Category: Training

Why the Turkey Trot and Santa Runs are IMPORTANT

I adore the diversity of ages, races, sizes and pace that you see for these races. When the races are promoted by local businesses and organizations, the participants tend to look more like our local communities, as they should!
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Goals and Perspective

Your goals and perspective can change by the year or by the minute. In running as in life, different encounters can open your eyes and different events can open your mind to change the path that you are on, or remind you to be more flexible in how you choose to head towards your end…
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Rochelle the Rockstar

This is Coaching. This is Motherhood. This is true friendship. This is the awesomeness of our running community. We show up for each other. We surprise each other and ourselves. We encourage each other to reach for new goals and no matter what they are, and how they differ from our own goals, we cheer…
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The Runner I’m Becoming

I trained for my smaller races with plans from the internet and a free app that I liked. I trained for my first half marathon with a basic plan and unplanned intervals but it got the job done. I knew so little about what I didn’t know and that was fine with me because my…
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Ask Coach Sabrina L: How do I commit to a training plan without feeling like I’m deserting my family?

As our goals get larger, they occupy more time in our schedule. It can feel overwhelming trying to figure out how to schedule everything that you want to achieve, but at the end of the day, it’s worth it!
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Accidental UltraMarathoner

As a Mother Runner and a Coach, I have very different opinions now of what an athlete can achieve when they set their mind to it. I have heard that at any given time, you can double your achievable distance but I never believed it. When I was being talked into my first half marathon,…
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Parallels and Visibility

Admittedly, I’ve spent more time in my adult years hiding than I have creating visibility and it is still often my reflex. It was not until I heard a podcast reminding us all to show up and let others see us that I truly thought about it. People may be quick to say “no one…
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Are You Vacation Ready?

People may tease about staying fit enough to outrun the zombies when they take over but having a ‘moderately active’ level of fitness should not be a joke for most adults. Do you struggle to bring your groceries into the house? If your car broke down somewhere unsafe with no cell service, would you have…
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One of the MANY times I quit the gym

In real life, it’s important to make small, incremental changes. This helps guarantee that you can stick with them and they will have lasting change. I’ve told you this before and I’ll continue to tell you. We are training for the long term. We are training for life.
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I Completed Over 14 miles

When I agreed to run with her, she said she had 12 miles on the plan. That was the maximum I imagined running that day. I let the voices get to me and I was planning the finish before we even began.
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