Midweek Musings: finish lines and steep hills

It's Wednesday. Good old halfway-through-the-week-day. Here's a few musings from the week so far:  Women's Running Magazine Blogger. I'm very excited to be joining the blogging team over at Women's Running Magazine. I'll be posting for them weekly, sharing running tips, insights and musings. You can check out my first post for them HERE.

Run through the Finish. By now you may have seen the heartbreaking finish for Molly Huddle in the 10K at World's this week. She had the bronze, but eased up at the end and allowing Emily Infeld to sneak past her on the inside and win by a stride and a lean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=u7KKySANnxQ

It's so easy to ease up when we know the finish is just steps away, you know there's a finish to the pain and it's right there. Sometimes we do that in life. We see the end in sight and we stop trying, thinking we've got it in the bag and then we lose it all. Always run through the finish, pick a point beyond the finish line, beyond your goal and shoot for that.

Embrace the Steepest Hill. In case you want to race the steepest race ever you can. The World's steepest race is coming to the USA, sponsored by Red Bull this race up a ski slope comes to Park City, Utah on September 26th. It looks like you run up the ski jump and finish at the top, gaining 200 feet in 400 meters (.25 mile). It's kind of crazy and I would totally do it if I could.

Be Defiant. I read this great post from Krysten and it really resonated with me. As she described her younger self I couldn't help but picture my own strong willed, five year old daughter. She's defiant and strong willed, asks tons of questions. Sometimes it's a little tough to handle. Reading Krysten's post reminded me that it's a character trait I should help Sophia cultivate and harness, rather than try to "parent it out of her" by forcing cooperation and obedience.

Would you run the steepest race in the world?

--Sarah

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