Alexandra

Ultramarathon
Written By Mona Angéline

Meet Alexandra, a #RADrabbit ultrarunner and Hyrox aficionado! She will begin her coaching journey with us in early January after some much-deserved rest following a busy season.

Alexandra doesn't have a set racing schedule yet, but she'd like to PR in an ultra next year. Most important to her is to work around her busy CrossFit and Hyrox program.

I am often surprised that athletes see their cross training as an impediment to their running. This couldn't be further from the truth—especially for us women, where strength, short but high intensity, and even shorter, "explosive" intervals have a profound effect on mitigating the catabolic effects of progesterone.

Alexandra will do well with her extensive strength program. She's proud of her 50k and her finish in the Seven Sisters Trail Race this year, and I'm confident she'll do well in her ultras next year.

Go get that PR, Alexandra!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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