#headupwingsout

[vaultermagazine]

@mpcvaults ・ Perhaps fearlessness is not something one can merely wander into, but the gritty gold dust rising up from the ashes of every single thing they have been through. -Morgan Harper Nichols #polevault #fearless #trackandfield #brussels #oisellevolée #nyac #fibersport #headupwingsout https://www.instagram.com/p/B1b2ZF2HGT3/?igshid=mwznpgn0pcb2

[emily-unmasked]

What a race! It wasn't pleasant (there area lot of factors that go into that), but I am so freaking proud of myself! It'sthe most difficult thing I've ever done physically and I know my times are "bad" 🐢 but I am on top of the world just finishing this race. 🏃‍♀️💨. . . . #runner #running #run #halfmarathon #rnrvabeach2017 #rnrhalfmarathon #runforfun #runnergirl #fitness #runnersofig #nbrunning #girlboss #girlswhorun #womenrunners #headupwingsout

[alopeciakids]

Repost @lindsayhannah3 location: San Francisco, California tags: @oiselle @thesfmarathon @nuunhydration @honeystinger @nycmarathon @nc_volee ・・・ Humbled, honored & so thankful to have the opportunity to be apart of the Speaker Series during @thesfmarathon weekend. I ran the marathon in 2017 and it’s been one of my absolute favorite marathons. It’s hilly (obviously 😉) but there is nothing like the views of San Francisco and of course all of the fun, touristy things to do during race weekend too. • This entire organization has been so encouraging and kind to me. Truly, they’ve been hyping me up and made me feel so special, it’s been so wonderful 🥰 I am so excited for race weekend! Spots are limited so be sure to RSVP. I speak on Saturday at 1pm! There are so many amazing speakers and incredibly talented runners! Like one of my running heroes THE @mikewardian 🤯 you won’t want to miss it! https://www.thesfmarathon.com/speaker-series/ • I will also be at an Alopecia event that morning after the 5K. God is so good and I am so thankful for all of these incredible opportunities and to everyone who is always supportive. Less than a month to go! Yay! • #runthisbay #oisellevolée #ncvolee #headupwingsout #sanfrancisco #biofreezesfm #runner #running #alopecia #health #fitspo #fitness #speaker #inspire #wellness #marathon #ultrarunner #irun #whstrong #nycmarathon #teamnuun #hshive #runcali #cali #bald #clt #werunsocial #community #halfmarathon https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzfok4FH5h_/?igshid=1kov6ww8e9bn4

[jenga164]

Leg one ✔️all 6 runners and 1 Nessie intact 💪🏻🏃🏻‍♀️💚#reachthebeach #ragnar #oisellevolée #headupwingsout #runfasttakechances #ibelieveinnessie #poguemohara #bunsbyalicia (at North Conway, New Hampshire)

[lakewoodcommunityacupuncture]

It’s Week 16 of Lakewood Community Acupuncture sharing the Be Better Movement challenges (learn more about their mission at bebetter.com). Sitting, standing, walking, driving, all actions we do in our daily routine.  But are we thinking about their effects on our body? More specifically, about how we’re positioning our bodies as we go through our day. There are a few postural adjustments we can make to better our wellness and decrease pain levels while doing everyday activities. That’s why this week’s #bebetter52 challenge is to focus on our posture while sitting and standing. Below are tips for having good posture in both sitting and standing positions. Sitting Posture: 1. Keep your feet on the floor (if they don’t reach, then use a footrest). 2. Do not cross your legs and keep your ankles in front of your knees. 3. Allow a gap between the back of your knees and your seat. 4. Check that your knees are at or below the level of your hips. 5. Relax your shoulders and let your forearms stay parallel to the ground. 6. Avoid sitting in the same position for long periods of time. 7. If available, use a backrest support for your mid and lower back. Standing Posture: 1. Bear your weight on the balls of your feet. 2. Keep your knees slightly bent. 3. See that your feet are shoulder width apart. 4. Let your arms hang naturally by your side. 5. Stand straight and tall with shoulders pulled back. 6. Tuck in your stomach. 7. Keep your head level with your shoulders; Do not push it forward, backward, side to side, etc. 8. If standing for a long time, try shifting your weight from toes to heel or foot to foot. #structuralalignment #powerpose #posturecorrection #headupwingsout #standtall #sitsmart #mondaymotivation #challengeaccepted #lakewoodcommunityacupuncture (at Lakewood Community Acupuncture) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwRtu9nFDSK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8d0wzochal6x

[missylizzylucy]

Renewed my #volee membership today and thought it fitting to wear my #headupwingsout shirt while running with the pups and some former swim/triathlon students! #springbreak #puprun @pretty_penny_puppy #scoutcomestovisit

[runduedrun-blog]

Night intervals calls for glow gear #headupwingsout #sprints #training

[lovwonderlust]

#headupwingsout https://www.instagram.com/p/BpfBjN3A6Eq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xazxaod3ia99

[rollga]

@isamarathoner ・・・ It’s Wednesday so you know for me that usually means two things: #restday and #cleanseday! Yep, enjoyed some extra sleep this morning but I still got some stretching and rolling done. Y’all, I can’t say enough how much I ❤️❤️❤️ this funky roller from @rollgahealth! And it’s SUPER light! Not an ad, just sharing a product I love! Yesterday I mentioned getting your stretching and rolling done and several people commented that they struggle with fitting it in. So what I do is make time on my rest day, and fit it in every other day when I can, like when I watch TV, helping the kids read, cooking dinner (yes, I’m weird like that). A busy schedule means you do it when you can - no excuses! Here’s to a happy and healthy Wednesday! —————————————> . . . #MarathonFest #marathontraining #irunthisbody #headupwingsout #flystyle #ihavearunnersbody #oisellevolee #oiselleFL #zensah #teamzensah #teamenertor #isarunner #mindovermatter #mmathlete #mmalpha #leavenodoubt #monumentalmarathon #bemonumental #accountabilitycoach #hansonsmarathonmethod #rollga #foamroller #rollitout #cleansedaywednesday #intermittentfasting #cellularcleansing #teamisagenix #shredday https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOi0ajATrW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ej28llmm8exd

[masongraceofficial-blog]

Is it just me or is today an incredible day? I completely understand some days are challenging, even today, we woke up feeling a little exhausted and overwhelmed. But rolling into a gratitude mindset, always flips everything back where it should be. Here’s a few things we were talking about. 1️⃣ We are grateful that so many of you hit comment every day on our posts. So many of you brighten our day and we look forward to what you have to add to our conversations. 2️⃣ We are grateful that we know that God loves us, no matter what, and so much that there’s nothing we could ever do to get Him to love us any more or any less. 3️⃣ We make a living doing our passion. For me, it feels like just yesterday I was holding bills in my hand trying to make the best choice on which to pay... even while working 3 jobs. 🙌🏼 Everyday isn’t perfect, but Gods love is and it’s unchanging and when we look we constantly see it. 😊 #countrymusic #gratitude #thankfulandblessed #headupwingsout #dailyinspirations #lifestyler #countrysinger #nashvillemusic #godisgood🙏 #godlove (at Long Hunter State Park)

[runwildgurl]

Preparing for a good long run starts the night before, plus its practice for preparing for races! 🙌🏃🏻‍♀️ #runhappy #nuunlife #pickyoats #honeystinger #nuunbassador #beets #oiselle #headupwingsout

[vaultermagazine]

Yes! @mpcvaults ・ Change is good. 😁 #newpoles #fibersport #polevault #takeflight #headupwingsout #spandos #flystyle #oiselle #nyac https://www.instagram.com/p/By54JVxnRbQ/?igshid=45v2diagjo3a

[j4jessi3-blog]

Morning you Amazing People! This is something I have often argued with myself over? Have you? Have you ever contemplated if the risk was worth the possible loss. Is it going to be a waste of your time? Sometimes it is obvious as the nose on our faces that some risks are not worth it. But the ones that leave us wondering, what if I had done that? Well those ones we never know unless we try. It's another new week of the New Year, what risks are you willing to take to change your future. Nothing will change if you don't do different things, think different things, try new things. Sometimes you will try things and wish you had never done it ;) Other times you will feel like you could have taken or left it. But then you will have times that will be sooo worth it. Worth all the times you tried something new or took a risk and thought it hadn't been worth it. Sometimes it only takes one amazing moment to make EVERYTHING worth it. So as you continue on in the new year I challenge you to pull on your big kid undies, grab a cape of courage and push yourself to do something that you have been sitting on the fence about, not feeling if it was worth the risk, and just do it! As Miss Frizzle says, "Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!" ;) :D And make this week count! Don't watch it pass you buy from your couch! #yesyoucan #keepgoingforward #keepingitreal #lifegoals❤️ #itsalwaysanadventure #headupwingsout #beyourownlight #beyouramazingself #growing #eyeontheprize #focusonwhatmatters #focusonthegoal #focusonwhatyouwant #bossmom #breakoldbadhabits #bossbabe #entrepreneurs #itsnotwhereyouare #itswhereyouregoing #neverquit #dontstopbelieving #dontstopuntilyouwin 💖

[rtracy13]

Part I: This Just In! or Rebecca’s retirement from track and field

The lack of 2017 races probably made this one fairly obvious, but I don’t think I was really ready to talk about, admit it or call it what it is till about November. So while not really a shocker here, what follows is my formal retirement letter to track and field.

3rd year of medical school was hard, harder than I thought it would be anyway after everything I put myself through first and second year getting ready for the trials and step 1 exams. I had some momentum in my legs still in late 2016 after the trials, but what I lacked was the heart. I found some little things to chase again, I set a course record at the Indy Monumental 5k in 16:18 my second fastest 5k ever and actually had my first enjoyable experience in the 5k, but then 2017 and the firestorm of long hours and Step 2 studying really began to set in. It was hard to get on an outdoor track alone in the middle of winter before of after a 10+ hour day and quite honestly I found it really easy to give in to the idea that what I was starting to care more about wasn’t will I be ready to race a mile again in a couple months but will I be a kick ass candidate for residency in a year. Back in January of last year there was still a part of me that thought maybe I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon and I found myself actually ready to give all of myself over to everything it would take to achieve that dream over racing a mile again. So I got a few workouts in and I raced an 800 and a 1500 at Hillsdale. The joy of spiking up and racing was still there, but part of me knew my heart wasn’t in it. I forced it a little longer and raced the Monumental Mile in June and knew I needed to be done. It wasn’t so much I was disappointed with my 4:43 as it was I was disappointed that I knew that time was racing above my fitness level and that the burning desire to do something to remedy it just wasn’t there. The lack of that desire is what bothered me most of all and I needed to just step away for a bit, it was something I hadn’t experienced before.

Being a semi-finalist at the Olympic Trials was honestly more than I thought I could ever achieve running. I just loved to run. I never really thought I could or would make it a career. I just loved the challenge of racing people I knew were better, stronger, faster, and making my self go to that gut tearing painful place to be there with them and not left behind. I loved trying to see just how fast I could go and I knew the 4:13 I left college with wasn’t my limit. I gave every ounce of myself to a goal that 4 years before I didn’t believe I could actually achieve and I loved every often painful moment of pushing myself to get there. After the trials, I just didn’t feel like I had anywhere else I could go, I had already gone beyond what I thought was even possible for me as a runner. I was also a 2nd going into 3rd year medical student. The week I came home from trials I got my second set of board scores, I was starting my first clerkship and I was back charging down my path towards becoming a physician having finally gotten over the first and biggest hurdle to that dream, Step 1 exams. For medical students this is basically the one freaking number that either opens or closes doors in you face for residency, your time to compare against the A and B standard for whatever kind of doctor you want to be.

So sure in terms of running goals I never quite formally broke that elusive 4:30 mark in the mile and the thought of doing that certainly kept me going till the end of 2016, but after trying to race the 1500 again I couldn’t help but think, maybe I should leave my last beautiful moments with the 1500 be. The feeling of racing myself to the place where I could literally push no harder. Crying on coach’s shoulder not because I didn’t make the final but because I still couldn’t believe that we actually made it there and I competed like I belonged. The feeling of being surrounded by so many amazing past and present teammates, family members and coaches that believed in me and helped me get to where I was standing that day doing the most outrageous thing I’ve ever done. I don’t think any 1500 race I run will I ever feel like I did then, and that is how I want to remember the 1500, the amazing time I had as part of the Haute Volee of Oiselle, and the incredible journey that my coaches teammates friends and family went on with me.

So I am hanging up my spikes in the 1500. My journey with the mile has taught me so much about myself and what I can do. It has brought into my life so many amazing coaches, teammates and friends, all of whom I can never say thank you enough to no matter how hard I try. A very special shout out to Oiselle for taking a chance on a med student with a crazy dream and for supporting and traveling along with me on my crazy journey. I will proudly be a member of the flock for as long as I can to continue to support the amazing things you do for other bad-ass women with wild dreams like mine.

Headupwingsout always!

[jenga164]

It may not be my time to renew (yet), but feels like a good time to say how much I 💜 my bird sisters. Even when I can't run, they're still here for me as friends and confidants and teammates. I'm excited to meet the new ladies who are choosing our team 💕 Welcome! . . . . . . . . #oisellevolée #oiselleteam #oisellemari #headupwingsout #runfasttakechances #runnerscommunity #runnersofinstagram #sistersinsport @oiselle

[brooke80-blog]

3 miles easy @ 10:00 min/mi = 30:04.6 mins 🏃‍♀️ Average HR = 164 ❤️ 20 degrees out, so I bundled up! Crisp air felt refreshing👍🏻Next up: Quarterfinals in the Holiday Tennis Tournament @ 4pm (I’m playing 7.0 mixed doubles) . . . #zensah #zensahambassador #nuun #nuunlife #nuunambassador #fueledbynuun #oisellevolée #ohiovolée #oiselle #headupwingsout #heartratetraining #maffetonemethod #running #flyingpigmarathontraining2018 #flyingpigmarathontraining