*Please note before listening: There is potentially triggering content where Lindsley shares more about her eating disorder between minutes 25-27, or about halfway through this episode. Feel free to skip over if you would like. Tune in: Anchor iTunes Spotify Photo Courtesy of Lindsley Kump.Learn more about Lindsley: Lindsley Kump is a mama, wife, fur baby mom, oral surgeon’s assistant, and runner. Originally from Hawaii, Colorado has been home to her for 18 years now. Running has been a key part of my life for almost 6 years and over the last year, she has been transitioning primarily into tra ..read more

Guest Post Submitted by Tessa Webb Photo from the HPU media team — shared by Tessa Webb. I have never been short on self-control. As a child, I would set myself homework to make sure I was on track with my studies, creating elaborate projects about butterflies and space that nobody asked for.  My self-discipline and work ethic shone through as I grew up and eventually became my biggest strength when I started running competitively. That was until control turned to compulsion, and I almost lost everything.  When I first started training and racing at around age 13, I felt fresh to the ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Sandi Nypaver. Tune in on Anchor, Spotify, or iTunes: Sandi is a competitive mountain ultra trail runner and one of the co-founders of Higher Running, where she intertwines her passions of running and helping others. She’s pushed for positive changes in women’s equality in sports, supports creating a healthy, body-positive culture, and advocates for the environment, animals, and health through a plant-based diet. Her personal philosophy is to “serve and grow with a compassionate heart” and through her adventures and lifestyle aims to live a passionate and comp ..read more

Photo from Cherie Turner. Cherie Turner (she/her) is a runner, podcaster, writer, and traveler. She is a lifelong athlete with a growing curiosity about how to move through aging in a healthy way: physically, mentally, and emotionally. And she is always going after a new challenge. Cherie has a strong interest in storytelling, especially about women athletes; in hand with storytelling, she emphasizes topics that highlight women’s unique physiology, strengths, and requirements in racing, training, and wellness. She explores this through Strides Forward, her narrated podcast focus ..read more

Listen to this episode on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/strong-runner-chicks/embed/episodes/Episode-164-Kara-Bazzi-of-Opal-Food–Body-on-Identity-in-Sport-and-ED-Recovery-etjd1n Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked in the field of eating disorders for almost 20 years. Her passion for the work was born out of her own experience of struggling in her relationship with food and exercise as a collegiate athlete. Kara, along with two colleagues, opened Opal: Food+Body Wisdom in early 2012, an eating disorder treatment center in Seattle, WA, whose mission is t ..read more

Photo provided by Jinghuan Liu Tervalon. Jinghuan Liu Tervalon is a mother runner based in the Altadena and Pasadena area of Los Angeles. She has been running for over 13 years and training with a group Fortius Altius Citius Training (FACT) for the past 5 years. She is a mother of two kids, in a mix-raced family, an insights and strategy professional with the Coca-Cola Company, and a Get-Out-The-Vote activist. She’s at her happy place running with her friends from the Pasadena Pacers, on the track or trails. She also serves as a local leader for Oiselle Volee, and on the advisory board of Runn ..read more

*Please note before listening: There is potentially triggering content where Lindsley shares more about her eating disorder between minutes 25-27, or about halfway through this episode. Feel free to skip over if you would like. Tune in: Anchor iTunes Spotify Photo Courtesy of Lindsley Kump.Learn more about Lindsley: Lindsley Kump is a mama, wife, fur baby mom, oral surgeon’s assistant, and runner. Originally from Hawaii, Colorado has been home to her for 18 years now. Running has been a key part of my life for almost 6 years and over the last year, she has been transitioning primarily into tra ..read more

We’re beyond thrilled to welcome a new SRC team member… Shelby Gottschalk! Shelby reached out to us over the holidays about helping out and becoming involved with outreach efforts at SRC. Since joining us only a few weeks ago, she has already provided an incredible amount of insight, ideas, and enthusiasm to our team. We look forward to working with Shelby this semester and hope that you get the chance to know her, too! Learn more about Shelby below. Please introduce yourself (Name, Age/Grade, Where are you from?, Club/Team/Coach) Shelby Gottschalk, Sophmore, Arkansas, Lyon XC/Track & Fie ..read more

Tune in on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-150-hilary-spires-trail-running-women-podcast/id1476972434 Hilary is an all around sports junkie. Her perfect day would include running 50 miles, watching golf, talking baseball, and coaching hockey. Before she found endurance sports she played NCAA hockey, high level fastpitch and fought in kickboxing and BJJ. She married her ski bum husband in the beer garden in between games at a slo-pitch tournament in their dirty uniforms, and they now have a 1 year old toddler named Baker – after the mountain. She’s run multiple ultras, ha ..read more

In this episode, we dive into RED-S and nutrition for runners, including the rundown on RED-S and how fueling properly can help prevent and/or address it. We also discuss Kristin’s running background, as well as her business and how she helps educate runners on fueling to perform well and empower their bodies for sport. Kristin LaFontaine is a health educator, nutrition coach, mama to a 15 month old son, and former collegiate distance runner turned marathoner. When Kristin looks back at the years she spent competing in both cross country and track in high school and college, she realize ..read more