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My thoughts on Power. Purpose. Passion.
(Read by me publicly at the lululemon Worth 100% speakers event in San Luis Obispo, Ca.) Thank you to lululemon for the invitation to speak. It is truly an honor to share my short story with you all tonight in hopes that you too will exercise your power, connect to...
Going tiny to live BIG
The third week of September, my husband and I began the massive task of downsizing 20 years of stuff ignorer to move into our California Central Coast tiny house.
Endurance Town USA Podcast Features Sports Icon and Survivalist Nellie Ballengee
For the latest episode of the mini-series Faces Behind the Races, presented by Race Roster, the Endurance Town USA podcast host Samantha Pruitt traveled to Moab, Utah, to sit down with the successful race director, endurance adventure athlete, professional coach,...
FIERCE AT FIFTY
Many of you know I'm a podcast junkie (and the host of Endurance Town USA podcast). I L.O.V.E. human connection and authentic storytelling. But last month while out on a long run I heard one that stopped me in my tracks. Why? Because I am about to hit my halfway mark!...
How I Reached 180 Miles At Born To Run Four Day 2018
I’ve had a couple requests for how the Born To Run Four Days went so I’ll try to summarize as best as I can. First, I’m 50, I'm 215lbs, I undertrained, and I had a 4-day goal of 150 miles. I honestly had no idea if that was even possible but it started at 100 miles...
Conquering Iditasport Impossible – 1,000 miles across Alaska
The alarm buzzed. I opened my eyes to darkness. My first breath turned my lungs into ice blocks. My head was surrounded by frost. Outside, my equipment looked old, all grey with a thin layer of ice and snow. I stuffed my bivy into my sled bag and it cracked and...
Choose Adventure
May 8 thru 14th was a grand adventure! Just what the doctor ordered. A spirit refill of wild leaps down the path of my New Year's resolution to “choose adventure.” This quest to fill my adventure deficit actually started in December when I wrote down “choose...
Don’t Look Back, You’re Not Going That Way!
The 150 mile Desert Rats stage race, 70.3 mile Ironman, 100 mile mountain bike adventure I have already planned for 2018 now took on new meaning.
My New Year’s REVolution
On both my Summer time birthday and then again at my end of year Winter Solstice I like to hit pause and breathe deep. These biannual gifts of time and space that I give to myself create slack. This invaluable slack allows for honest personal reflection, followed by...
The Big Gulp
New Year’s is a great time to set goals. There’s a collective energy in the air, as everyone looks ahead, and we feed off each other’s dreams.
It’s a good time to tackle a goal that scares you a little, say the experts in human motivation; it’s how we grow. If the goal doesn’t intimidate you, it’s not pushing you out of your nest.
So I’ve picked a goal that scares me a lot. Gulp.
Sandra Villines’ North American Transcontinental World Record
By Sheryl Collmer, Race SLO Staff, Ultrarunning.com Confucius say: “Man who moves mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” The mountain Sandra Villines moved was the female world record for the North American transcontinental run. That record had been immovably...
Sandy Villines Is Running Across America…And She’s Nearly There
She’s in Ohio. If I write too slowly, she’ll be in Pennsylvania before I finish. Sixty miles a day will get you a long way in a hurry.
From San Francisco’s City Hall, Sandra Villines has now traversed California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio. That’s around 2,400 miles in 44 days.
