Dani

Ultramarathon

Nov 19

Meet Dani, who finished Black Canyons 100k recently and is now back for more! Dani is training for the Bay Area 100, a new race in the hills of the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area.

Dani’s main goal is to not lose focus after a few months when training for a big event. This isn’t an uncommon scenario, and I have fallen prey to it in my own running. I don’t think anybody can train intensely for months or years on end without having a bit of mental and physical downtime to doodaddle and do other things.

To help Dani, we will set up a plan that includes recovery weeks or periods where the goal is to expressly “lose focus” and focus on life while doing a few easy runs. Having an end date to the break when a coach checks back in and motivates a runner to begin again helps stay on track.

We can’t wait to see Dani shine come next June!!

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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