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Trail Sisters Half Marathon & 10k

September 13th • Buena Vista, CO

Trail Sisters Half Marathon & 10K

September 13 • Buena Vista, CO

How to Plan a Thru-Hike in Under a Month

Planning a thru-hike in a month or less is a gargantuan task, but it can be done. It requires attention to detail, focus, and also a willingness to let some things ride. It helps if you have done a long-distance hike prior. Familiarity with the trail you intend to hike can really help as well. If you’re crunched for time and think you have what it takes to pull off the planning here’s how to do it!

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Adventure
Heather Anderson

How to Plan a Thru-Hike in Under a Month

Planning a thru-hike in a month or less is a gargantuan task, but it can be done. It requires attention to detail, focus, and also a willingness to let some things ride. It helps if you have done a long-distance hike prior. Familiarity with the trail you intend to hike can really help as well. If you’re crunched for time and think you have what it takes to pull off the planning here’s how to do it!

Empowerment
Ray Nypaver

Speak: A Guide to Becoming Unshakable 

There’s a lot going on in the world. It can feel overwhelming. It is important to stand firm.
With that, it’s easier for change to feel more tangible when it is something we can affect a little more directly, like when we look at the communities we belong to, such as our little trail running community.

Inspiration
Cristina Oliveri

Running on Empty: A Woman’s Journey Back to Herself

There comes a point in every woman’s life when the quiet voice inside gets drowned out by the relentless noise of responsibilities, deadlines, family obligations, and the never-ending demand to be everything, for everyone, always.

Empowerment
Doreen Jarman

Bikini Strong

Last week I found an old drive full of photos from my first digital camera. There were files full of pictures from 2005 to 2009,

Family
Melissa Boisvenue

Grief, That First Run, and the Women Who Carried Me

If you opened this story because you’ve experienced pregnancy loss too, know this: you are not alone. There are women like you and me, from every corner of the world, who know the hurt you’re feeling right now. In what can feel like the most isolating experience — a grief that shakes you to your core — there exists a quiet, bonded community. A sisterhood of women who carry both love and our grief through the trails. We carry it together.

Health & Fitness
Sarah Mitchell

Running as a Form of Meditation

Moving meditation erodes my millennial guilt. It’s a unique blend of guilt that was built by the insidious undertones of pop culture iconography I grew

Chuckant 50k Finish
Trail Sisters

Ask TS: First 50k

What’s your best advice for someone training for their first 50k? How do you balance building up a base for long distance mileage, while also getting enough rest?

Contributors

Cristina Oliveri

Melissa Boisvenue

Zoë Rom

Johanna Dehning

Angela Millet

Tricia McFadden

Sarah Mitchell

Christina Mather

Sara Manderscheid

Marybeth Bohn

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