Song

Ultramarathon
Written By Mona Angéline

Meet Song, who's training for the Wild Woman 50k in June! Song's main goal in running is to listen to her body and focus on her journey rather than the outcome of one particular finish line.

In running, we can have outcome goals like finish times, but process goals like feeling strong, staying fueled, running healthy, and much more are just as important—if not more! Song hits the nail on the head with her desire to run for longevity, because that sort of thing keeps the body (and soul!) much happier than a temporary race time can.

As a coach and chronic illness warrior, I have first-line experience with training for health. Running can be so good for us, yet it can drain the little we have if we're not careful. I hope to bring some of my wisdom into the next few months before Song's race so she can finish strong and keep moving for years to come!

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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