Finding Finish Lines

I was listening to media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk this morning when he said something that stopped my in my tracks. He said, "You can build a billion dollar empire on good."

It got me thinking, why do we always think we are supposed to figure it all out and then start? That's silly!

As we all have this time to sit with our dreams, I have seen brave women declare their next steps. You are speaking up for the first time, changing your diets, or exercising more. It's amazing.

The best part? When we take a step and make a change, we can bring others along with us! We don't have to have it all figured out to be impactful. 

So what are you going to do? What is your billion dollar empire that you can start with just plan good? 

Let me know! Leave a comment at https://FindingFinishLines.com/23 or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram  (and don't forget to hit the follow button while you're there!) or email me at [email protected]. 

I can't wait to hear!

In our sport fitness life, we are all navigating between reasons and results. Beachbody Coach and friend, Maria Trees, joins us today to share how finding a community in running, and later through her home workout programs, makes showing up for yourself so much easier.

Do you ever think that you are far too busy for your workout routine? Believe it's not worth starting because you will never have the results you want? Do you want out of the dark spaces of postpartum depression and anxiety? Maria has been there! She wants to share what worked for her.

PLEASE NOTE: I am not a Beachbody coach, nor do I have any financial interest in the programs. I created this episode because I respect how Maria shows up for her community, and I believe these programs have value for all athletes in this strange time. These are NOT affiliate links. 

Find Maria Trees on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariatrees

For more on the programs Maria mentioned:
21 Day Fix
10 Rounds
Barre Blend


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Though it might seem like every woman in the world (except you) is handling this pandemic life by pulling a cork before the afternoon, it's just not true!

For the incredibly brave women handing all of the responsibilities of this pandemic while staying true to yourself and your sobriety, I SEE YOU!

YOU ARE AMAZING!

Let's be sure that we are making our group calls and socially distanced community meet-ups a welcoming space for our sisters who are walking the road to sobriety.

If you are in need of resources to support your sober journey check out:

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Hotline at: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

The Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous

Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery at Park Valley Church in Haymarket, Virginia.

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I'll be back on Monday to bring you a chat with a runner who has transitioned to home workouts and is crushing it! You won't want to miss her. 

Until then, carry on, Women of Valor.

It's Spring of 2020 and many of us are searching for ways to bring the joys of outdoor training indoors. Whether it's the weather, childcare constraints, circumstances in your area or out of an abundance of caution, it has become more desirable than ever to make training a 24-hour, safe possibility.

Which is exactly why it is nearly impossible to buy a Peloton bike!

Yes, many of your friends might have one of these deluxe training tools, but there are other ways to have a blast while getting sweaty that cost substantially less and you can start almost immediately.

Thank you so much for hanging around with me for 20 episodes already! I'm so excited for the future and grateful that you are allowing me to be part of yours. <3

Check out these links from the show:
If you make a purchase after clicking a link in the show notes, I might make a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show!

For more information about bike trainers, visit DC Rainmaker's Youtube Channel

Cycleops

Wahoo

Zwift

TrainerRoad

FulGaz

Sufferfest

NordicTrack

Beachbody with Coach Maria  <--- This is actually a list of FREE workouts she put together for you!

Orangetheory At Home

Yoga with Adriene

GoNoodle

Just Dance 2020

Finding My Voice by Mike Reilly

Rev 3 Tri Quarantri

Rev 3 Tri Williamsburg

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Until next time, be well and carry on, women of valor!

Welcome to Spring 2020, where everything feels a little upside down.

While everyone under the sun has a new "Unique" message for you about how you should be spending this time, maybe their methods aren't quite right for your situation.

I have one suggestion that works for everyone, without fail: Make it rain grace.

Grace for yourself.

Grace for everyone around you.

As athletes, the advice we hear most often is that we need to be consistent, and there is so much value in that message.

For now, though, let's let our consistency be in our grace.

Ask yourself, "What can I do to be most gentle with myself and those around me today?"

If the answer involves training, EXCELLENT! Go to work, girl.

If it involves resting, that's equally valid.

Be consistent with your grace now.

Consistency with your training will come.

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Why should we allow comparison to get in our way?

Though we might like to, we can't completely avoid comparing ourselves to others. It's just part of our human experience. Instead, let's recognize that sometimes it can be illuminating.

When we compare ourselves to those around us and it stings, it shows us the areas where we are maybe a little raw, a little vulnerable. It can point us in the direction we need to go to make positive changes in the places that have the most impact.

This is especially important right now, when we all have just social media to keep in touch with our people! It's so easy to fall into the scroll-trap and walk away completely convinced that we will never measure up.

Check out the three ways that we can overcome the endless comparison paralysis and get started.

1. Accept imperfection
2. Recognize the highlight reel
3. Move your body.

Thank you so much for joining me today!

Starting this Friday, the podcast will come to your ears twice per week. You will find regular episodes on Mondays and Five Minute Fridays will be a short message to bring you into your weekend training. Make sure that you are subscribed so that you never miss an episode!

This show exists for you! I can't stress enough how much it would help me to know what you like and what you don't, what you want to hear more of, and any other tidbits. Reach out!

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Or even email me at [email protected].

Until next time, carry on women of valor. 

Life is strange right now, right? Luckily, there are 5 truths that endurance athletes know that we can lean into to get us through.


I don’t want to add to the to-do list in this time, but because I love you, I’m bringing you the reasons why moving can make you feel much better.

-There is space for incremental change

-We don’t have to decide between doing nothing and doing everything

-Why did you set your first fitness goal? Did you evolve after?

-Shout out to the Peloton App, with it’s free trial for 90 days.

-Evolve or stay the same?

-Where are you right now? Want to stay there?

Episode with Angie about becoming a runner.

Episode with Ashley about trail running

Women who compete in endurance sports have an advantage for 5 reasons:

1. We do hard things for fun

2. We jump right in

3. We know we aren’t alone

4. We know we can change our story

5. It’s good for our family.

I’d love for you to leave me a quick message. Tell me what you’re trying, share with me what you like about the show or what you’d like to grow. Is there a topic you’d like me to cover or a person you’d like me to talk to? Let me know! Go to https://FindingFinishLines.com/17 and leave me a message through SpeakPipe.

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And don’t forget to subscribe to the show and share with your friends and family who could use the lessons from endurance sports. 

...and lace up & go. 

Until next time, carry on women of valor. 

While we are all at home with either nothing but time (Hello single friends) or seemingly less time that normal (Hi Momma! You got this!) maybe now is the perfect time to give a new practice a try.

Today, I mean yoga.

In today's culture, hearing the word yoga is equally likely to have you imagining ancient Indian symbols and really long words you can't pronounce as it is to make you recall that shirt you saw on the 'gram that says, "Namastay in bed."

Well today, I'm just focused on encouraging you to try the practice of stretching, settling in to unsettling postures, and giving that body of yours a great stretch.

Today, I talk to my favorite yoga teacher. I am very privileged because she is my sister!

Join us as we debunk some yoga myths, try to persuade you to try it even from the comfort of your own home, and discover improvement in your endurance sport of choice by showing some love to the parts of your body you often neglect.

MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

Hot Spot Power Yoga - this is where you can sign up to practice with Hayley

YOD Yoga - a combination of traditional yoga and High Intensity Interval Training

Cosmic Kids Yoga on Youtube

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

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As always, you can find a full transcript of this episode on our website at https://findingfinishlines.com/yoga-for-everyone/

Until next time, carry on women of valor! 

It's just the reality of the moment. For many of us, our A-races, the ones we have been visualizing and training for, have been either cancelled or postponed. What do we do now?

It's a bit of an endurance athlete existential crisis.

But it doesn't have to be!

Join me for a bit of tough love today. Since your race is cancelled, let's dive in and examine our "Why." We know that in life our reasons need to be stronger than our excuses. If the race itself is the reason, we owe ourselves better!

Then, once we have established some common reasons why we endurance athletes challenge ourselves in this way, it's time for us to identify excuses that might present themselves and ways to overcome them.

Today, I'm all about making sure that you are still moving your body even after this disappointment. Sure, your race is cancelled. That doesn't mean all of your future races will have the same fate. Do you want to show up to your next starting line the kind of woman who took months off nursing her sadness or a resilient, well-trained athlete that never lets anything get in her way?

I thought so.

Maybe you will decide that this is the perfect time to make the jump to multi-sport. If that's the case, then you will definitely need my list of what you do (and DON'T) need to try a triathlon this year. Find it at: https://findingfinishlines.com/try-a-triathlon-gear/

Find a transcript of today's episode at: https://findingfinishlines.com/your-race-is-cancelled/

Mentioned on the show:

Rev 3 Quarantri - the virtual triathlon at the end of April. DO THIS! Let's support our local race directors.

Peloton app - currently giving a 90-day free trial

Yoga with Adrienne

If you have found a cool way to keep moving, share it with me so I can share it with others! We all need to be a little creative right now.

Please let me know how you are doing! Connect with me by:

Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FindingFinishLines/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingfinishlines/
My website: https://findingfinishlines.com
That's all for now. Until next time, carry on Women of Valor.

After a few years struggling to find consistency with activity, Ashley decided to forget what she told herself about running and try a local 5k...and she loved it!

Join us to hear how blossomed from training with an app that told her when to walk and when to run (VERY helpful at first!) to flying down hills on the trails as an ultramarathoner.

What will you try next?

FROM TODAY'S SHOW:

Have you tried guided meditation yet? Check out last week's episode for a quick guided meditation with Hayley, or check out Women's Meditation Network for a whole host of podcast meditations to start, or continue, your practice.

If you are looking for a way to fill in your Sunday morning service gap, or if you are just looking for some answers with a dash of hope, join me in the livestream of Park Valley Church, my local church's services on Facebook or through their website, ParkValleyChurch.com.

If what we focus on magnifies, let's focus on what is beautiful. Come on over to Instagram and share moments that you are noticing in this crazy time using the hashtag #ForcedPause. I'd love to join you in recognizing the beauty all around us.

For more Finding Finish Lines, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, or on our website at FindingFinishLines.com.

Until next time, carry on, women of valor.