Don’t care what anyone says… 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;...
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...
By Sheryl Collmer, Race SLO Staff, Ultrarunning.com 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,...
Samantha Pruitt at the 2017 Sea Otter Classic finish line. This experience of feeling these two recent worlds collide is beyond beautiful. By Samantha Pruitt, Founder & CEO, Race SLO Lately I have been finding great joy and satisfaction in the fact that both...
By Samantha Pruitt, Founder & CEO, Race SLO People call me wild, crazy, fearless, strong and many other colorful adjectives that may or may not be true depending on the day or amount of coffee I have just consumed. I pay no attention. Nor do I pay attention to the...
Rhonda Williams, a Temecula native, has run at the SLO Marathon + Half since 2013 and is gearing up to run it as a “recovery” run after this year’s Boston Marathon. This is her Race SLO Tribe story on the healing power of running. I began running in 2009. I was...