3.3.2025
“Timothy Olson is an elite ultra runner and the former record holder for the fastest known time on the Pacific Crest Trail. Follow his incredible journey as he battles record-breaking heat and encroaching wildfires, racing against nature—and time— to reach the finish line before his daughter is born. With the unwavering support of his wife and children, Olson pushes his limits to average over 50 miles a day for 50 consecutive days. Will he emerge unscathed, or will the relentless pressure leave him forever changed?” -National Geographic via YouTube
In this week’s email:
Chicken Nuggets: Dino nuggets + high split running shorts? Perfection.
Honey, where is my super(shoe)?!": Another week, another super shoe - this time, from Saucony
Virtual Challenge: Stay motivated through the end of bitter winter with an Alcatraz virtual 5K
👇Read a Cadence-recommended article: Gold Medalist Kristen Faulkner had anything but a normal rise to fame/top of her sport. She didn’t know how to ride a bike, she was in finance and wasn’t a professional athlete of any sorts - let this be a lesson that passion finds us in the strangest of places, but it’s your drive that takes you to the top.
Funny Post of the Week:
Tidbits
WFH - Outdoors: Working from your balcony or back patio when the sun is shining, and it’s that perfect sweet spot of hot-but-not-too hot, is a big perk of remote jobs. If you’re one of the millions of people that live where you experience 4 seasons - you probably find yourself wasting away during the winter months at your indoor desk, getting a glimpse here & there of the sunshine. This journalist vowed to work OUTSIDE for 30 days during winter - and he…kind of loved it?
✅Harry Styles is a Marathoner: We really feel like since COVID, plain ol’ running has kind of had a comeback. Now, every Instagram influencer, boy band singer and Page Six celeb is either training for, or has run a marathon. Harry Styles just crushed Tokyo Marathon in under 4 hours.
✅Motivation Loading: This is your reminder that you need to stop waiting on other people to do the sh*t you wanna do. Moving your body is a privilege; don’t take it for granted.
✅Endurance FBI Agents: Have you ever heard that women make the best FBI agents? Give them a first name and a single other tidbit of info - they can find out everything there is to know about that person. Now, the girlies are taking their superpowers to the endurance world. Enter: shooting your shot by way of live marathon tracking. Genius.
@spibelt Ultimate wing woman 🫡 #spibelt #marathon #austinmarathon #halfmarathon #halfmarathontraining #raceday #powerpointnight #austintx
✅Extreme MTB park: Do we own $2000 mountain bikes? Yes. Do we have the b*lls to hit a park like this? HELL NO. Is it that these riders have blatant disregard for personal safety, or they really are just about the Full Sends?
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