Hannah

Meet Hannah, our speedy energizer bunny! Hannah is training for the 2025 New York Marathon. But just running isn’t quite enough for her—she also teaches Hot Pilates four times a week and goes on multi-hour bike rides for fun, always a smile on her face.

Hannah ran a Boston-qualifying time at her very first marathon, the OC Marathon in Orange County. She’s now back for more. She came to me because her hip flexors complained after a speed workout. The injury continued to dampen her joy of flying down the trails and streets of Santa Cruz, and with two months to go to the race, she took three weeks off running, worried whether she’d toe the line come November.

Looking at her training plan, we saw that her speed workouts were scheduled on Mondays. After her weekend long run, Hannah did not want to get out of bed for some of these tough sessions, but she did anyway. But Hannah’s body was right—an interval session on a Monday offers no time to recover from the long run.

I moved her workout to the middle of the week and also assured her that her easy miles could follow a much slower pace.

“Slower is WAY more fun,” one of her Strava titles says. And it’s reducing injury risk, too!

Keeping injury risk in mind, we created a path out of injury that also works around Hannah’s intense cross-training regimen, and now, her pain is minimal to none.

I’m confident Hannah will be the unstoppable energizer bunny she always is come race day!