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When Traveling, Always Take the Guided Running Tour!

When Traveling, Always Take the Guided Running Tour!

Bergamot Posted by Bergamot on July 25, 2017 8 Comments

Moving to Europe has provided me with plenty of travel opportunities. I’ve taken many trips with friends and countless ones with my boyfriend, but every now and then I crave a solo adventure. Recently I headed north from Spain to explore Prague.

When I made this decision, I felt the usual excitement that precedes solo travels and immediately got to work planning my itinerary. It included things I would not usually do if I were traveling with others, things like trail running!

Spoiler alert! When all is said and done I left thinking, EVERYONE MUST ALWAYS TAKE THE GUIDED RUN TOUR WHEN TRAVELING!  Read more >>

Categories: Travel Running
Tags: guided trail tour, Prague, traveling, vacation running
Should You Bring Your Kids to an Important Race?

Should You Bring Your Kids to an Important Race?

Parsley Posted by Parsley on April 5, 2016 16 Comments

imageAny parent with a big race on the calendar has faced the question of whether or not to leave the kids at home on the big day. On one hand, we want our kids to be a part of our lives and share in our experiences. On the other hand, we want to arrive at the starting line having had some sleep and not having to worry about whether we adequately packed the diaper bag.

After qualifying for the Olympic Trials, I wrestled with whether to bring my one- and three-year-old to L.A. It would obviously be much easier to travel by myself or with just my husband. My youngest, especially, doesn’t travel well, and the logistical jungle and additional expense of bringing them made it seem like a bad choice.

Ultimately, though, I wanted it to be a family experience. My girls are my training buddies. I ran more miles with them than with anyone else, including by myself! They were part of the process to get there in the first place. And I wanted them to be included. Not that a one- and three-year-old would remember much of the experience, but one day they can at least say, “I watched my mom run in the Olympic Trials!”

I thought I’d share a little about the experience to help you decide whether to take your kids to your next big destination race.  Read more >>

Categories: Marriage & Family, Racing
Tags: destination races, Motherhood, Olympic Trials, parenting, traveling
The Key to Short and Sweet (and Inexpensive!) Runcations

The Key to Short and Sweet (and Inexpensive!) Runcations

Bergamot Posted by Bergamot on November 5, 2015 4 Comments

With winter coming, a long weekend running somewhere warm with a beach would make a great option!
With winter coming, let’s take a runcation somewhere with a warm beach!

Here is my logic: If you are a woman who loves to run and travel and you have lady friends who also love to run and travel, why not make a short and sweet trip out of it? A run-cation!

A runcation is a short vacation centered around running. It usually involves a race, but need not. The best runcation will be easy to get to and affordable. In 2015 I went on two perfect runcations that I want to tell you about today! Read more >>

Categories: Travel Running
Tags: Chicago, Nashville, traveling
Going the Distance: Pros and Cons of Destination Races

Going the Distance: Pros and Cons of Destination Races

Honey Posted by Honey on August 26, 2015 2 Comments

All packed up and ready to go! Running shoes are the first thing to go in the bag.

Yeah, I know everyone’s going back to school, but I’m not ready to give up thoughts of summer vacation. Sleeping in, long days, lazy picnics, and maybe cashing in those frequent flier points. Summer always puts travel on the brain. For me, as a teacher, I like to get far away (usually far, far away) from the places of my daily grind. And as a runner, I’m not a sit-on-the-beach-all-day-with-the-latest-E.L. James-book kind of vacationer. I prefer something much more active. With the summer months being a popular time of year for many races, I’ve gotten into the habit of picking a goal race in an interesting and far-flung place to build a vacation around.

Traveling is one of my favorite things. Top of the list. My answer to the “What would you do if you won the lottery?” question. However, running is pretty high up there too. So why not just put the two things together? Shouldn’t it be the equation for a perfect race experience?

Well, turns out the answer is a little more complicated.

How can you balance the equation of determining if a destination race fits your competitor profile? Read on for some things to consider.

Read more >>

Categories: Features, Running + Life, Travel Running
Tags: destination races, Honey race reports, traveling
5 Reasons Maine is Perfect For Runners

5 Reasons Maine is Perfect For Runners

Cardamom Posted by Cardamom on July 31, 2015 16 Comments

fri5In the summer I just can’t get travel out of my mind, and after Sage’s recent post about great places to run in the West, I figured the East could use a little love too!  So this weekend I’m headed as far east as I can go in the continental US – Maine!

When you take off on the road it’s great to run new trails and check out the local routes, but personally I like to plan around a race.  That way I not only get to take in the sights, I also get to feel competitive and accomplished.  This time, my “racecation” is planned around The Beach to Beacon 10K, where I’ll be racing toward the iconic Portland Head Light!

So with Maine on my mind, I decided to bring you this week’s Friday 5, all about why Maine is an excellent destination for your next runcation! Read more >>

Categories: Friday Fun, Travel Running
Tags: Maine, traveling
5 Western Trails Worthy of Your Next Running Vacation

5 Western Trails Worthy of Your Next Running Vacation

Sage Posted by Sage on July 17, 2015 4 Comments

Friday 5Traveling is great, but as you’ve probably experienced, it can certainly interfere with training. I planned on spending the summer in Boulder, running along Boulder Creek Trail, Wonderland Lake and Coot Lake, hiking the numerous trails in the Indian Peak Wilderness, cycling on Left Hand Canyon Road, reading books and starting some new writing projects. Instead, we sold our home there in June and have spent much of the first half of the summer on the road.

I love to travel but not so much in a car: my body aches from sitting for so long and unless I’m driving I get motion sickness on winding roads.  But when life hands us lemons… I decided to take advantage of the change in plans and convert some of my scheduled training runs into a way to explore new areas. Running is a perfect excuse to get up early, check out local trails, and get the body moving before getting back into a car.

As we’ve traveled throughout Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and back to California I’ve had the pleasure to run some truly amazing trails, and thought they might make some nice food for thought next time you’re planning a running vacation! Read more >>

Categories: Friday Fun, Travel Running
Tags: trail running, traveling
Oh, Canada! Honey’s Toronto Women’s 15k Race Report

Oh, Canada! Honey’s Toronto Women’s 15k Race Report

Honey Posted by Honey on July 7, 2015 6 Comments

There are plenty of reasons why I give traveling to faraway races a thumbs up.  (Even if they don't all give you shiny temporary tattoos.)
There are plenty of reasons why I give traveling to faraway races a thumbs up. (Even if they don’t all give you shiny temporary tattoos.)

I love to travel and I love running, but I might be finally ready to accept that traveling and racing like a boss don’t exactly go well together. I just got back from running a women’s 15k race in Toronto. I signed up for this race because 1) Toronto is close enough to New York City that I could do it in a quick weekend 2) I have a friend in there whom I haven’t seen in years and could catch up with 3) said friend was kind enough to let me stay with him and 4) I’ll admit that I wanted to add another finishers necklace to my collection -this was one of those Nike races where you get the Tiffany necklace in lieu of a medal- and 5) This would be a great way to explore a city.

I left New York on a Friday night directly after my teaching day. I kicked off the weekend with a cocktail and a snack at La Guardia airport. So far so good. Read more >>

Categories: Race Reports
Tags: Honey race reports, traveling
5 Things About Beach Running

5 Things About Beach Running

Tarragon Posted by Tarragon on July 3, 2015 2 Comments

fri5I recently returned from a vacation at the beach. Ahhhh, vacation! Fruity drinks, relaxation and fun in the sun. At least that’s what normal people think of when they think of a beach vacation. Us runners, though? Shoot. How am I going to get my training in? You know you’ve been the secret vacation buzzkiller kind of dreading days at the beach because it might interrupt your regularly scheduled training plan. You might think I’m here today to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way. but I’m not. Instead, I’m bringing you 5 observations about beach running to help you adjust your beach vacation training expectations. Maybe they’ll help you get your training in or maybe they’ll help you let go a little and enjoy your beach vacation a little more. Either way, win! Read more >>

Categories: Friday Fun
Tags: traveling
A Quick and Salty Guide to Running in Chicago

A Quick and Salty Guide to Running in Chicago

Jasmine Posted by Jasmine on September 17, 2014 Leave a comment

Going to Chicago for the weekend? In the middle of marathon training? Like cities where people drink… a lot? Great. You’ve made it to the right place.  Chicago is known for its deep dish pizza, friendly Midwestern people  and 15 professional sports teams. Though as runners we know it as the city that hosts The Chicago Marathon. Since its inception in 1905, the race has been one of the major world marathon growing to about forty-thousand runners last year. But you don’t need to run in the marathon to enjoy running to Chicago!

Chicago Lakefront
Chicago Lakefront (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you’re heading to Windy City and need a little rundown on the running scene, this post is for you! Read more >>

Categories: Features
Tags: Chicago, running groups, traveling
Running in Nashville: A Quick Guide for Visitors

Running in Nashville: A Quick Guide for Visitors

Catnip Posted by Catnip on May 15, 2014 6 Comments

Nashville Post Card / Southwest Airlines mural

Do any of you Salty readers have country music on your iPod? How about a road trip to Nashville?

I put a few thousand miles on my legs while living in Nashville earning my M.S. from Vanderbilt. Although deservedly famous for the music scene, Nashville has a great running community as well!

Whether you’re there to stay or just there for a short trip, I’ve got the skinny on the best way to have a great time running through Music City, America! Read more >>

Categories: Training Basics, Travel Running
Tags: Nashville, traveling
Sucking Wind: Running at Altitude

Sucking Wind: Running at Altitude

Garlic Posted by Garlic on April 9, 2014 10 Comments

Check out the view from my hotel!

A few weeks ago it was February vacation week here in the Northeast, which for my family meant our third annual trip to the Canyons Ski Resort in Park City, Utah.  I did some running while we were there and marveled as I always do at how challenging even a 30-minute easy run seemed at 6,800 feet elevation.  On our second day there, returning from a run winded, sweaty and beat, I was teased by the bellmen hanging out in front of our hotel.  “Tough run?” one asked me.  When I agreed, he reassured me, “Don’t worry, you’ll be able to go home and run marathons after a few days up here!”

But was that really true?  Was I really getting any training benefit from the six days we spent in Park City, a mile and a quarter up in the sky? Read more >>

Categories: Training Basics
Tags: altitude training, traveling
Hit the Road: Fitting in Your Running While Traveling

Hit the Road: Fitting in Your Running While Traveling

Sassafras Posted by Sassafras on December 20, 2012 6 Comments

Your bags are packed, but do you have a travel running plan? img frankensteined by SR’s Cinnamon

It’s that time of year when so many people are hitting the road, whether it’s for year-end business, vacation or trips home for the holidays.  As I have mentioned in my logs the past couple of weeks, I recently snuck away for a mini beach getaway (and a family visit, too).  The good news is that while I was gone I managed to stay on track with my training, which isn’t always easy.

As runners, one question that always comes to mind when making travel plans: how to fit our runs in while away from home.

Read more >>

Categories: Travel Running
Tags: traveling

A Visitor’s Guide to Running in New York City

Kyle Gorjanc Posted by Kyle Gorjanc on August 16, 2012 8 Comments

Greetings From New York City
Welcome to Gotham! Ready to go running? img via Boston Public Library

You’ve made it, baby!  New York, New York! The city that never sleeps! Home of the hot dawg, Broadway theater, the Mets and the Stock Exchange. Where rents are as high as the skyscrapers but you can get a slice of pizza as big as your head for a buck. No matter what brings you to the city–THE City, as we residents call it–as a Salty reader you’re probably going to want to run.  And if you aren’t a local you’re bound to step out of your hotel, look at all the hustle and bustle around you and wonder where are the best places to run. How are you ever going to find them in such a fast-moving concrete jungle?  It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Seems like most visitors give up on finding the best that New York City running has to offer and just run the loop around Central Park.  There’s nothing wrong with that, but in a city of 8 million people with 29,000 acres of parks*, a flagship running club that serves over 300,000 runners* AND the world’s largest marathon* we’re bound to have a little more to offer than the loop around Central Park!

Well, lucky Salty you, I couldn’t be a better expert on running NYC if I were a Tammany.  Read on if you want to run the Greatest City in the World like I do! Read more >>

Categories: Travel Running
Tags: New York City, traveling
Clove’s Olympic Adventure:  When It’s More Than Just Running

Clove’s Olympic Adventure: When It’s More Than Just Running

Clove Posted by Clove on August 15, 2012 8 Comments

It’s Clove – live from the London 2012 Olympics!

I was nine years old in 1984.  The Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles and I watched Mary Lou Retton with the fixation of cat-to-mouse.  I was too young to know that the Cold War was raging on, with Russia boycotting our Olympics as payback for our boycott of the Moscow games four years prior.  I was too young to know how big the world really was, and that Germany was split into two pieces divided by a wall, and that people killed each other over petty things like color and religion and oil. I just thought the different costumes were cool.

I was living with my grandparents that summer, staying at their house on Chautauqua Lake.  The living room was large with white carpet, the television to the left in a built-in console on the floor.  I would lie on that carpet for hours that summer, the only time I gave up swimming in the lake, to look at the costumes and the flags and the colors.  I was too young to know too much, but I did know that the Olympics were a very big deal.  And more than that – they were magical. Read more >>

Categories: Travel Running
Tags: elite running, Olympics, traveling
It’s How Much? Making Races Fit Your Budget

It’s How Much? Making Races Fit Your Budget

Sassafras Posted by Sassafras on July 21, 2012 6 Comments

2009 Races
You might need some smelling salts if you added up the cost of all these bibs and medals. Image via luxomedia.

We’ve all heard that saying about running being cheap; all you need is a pair of shoes. Well, if you’re just running around your neighborhood that might be true, but if you’re running races, the costs can add up quickly! Think about it: the race fee itself, gas or airfare and a rental car, new shoes, a hotel and don’t get us started on managing an injury … it’s all about the Benjamins. Runner’s World‘s Mark Remy even quotes his colleague Bart Yasso as saying that “the average marathon medal costs about a thousand bucks“. I’m here to help you navigate the world of marathons and half marathons while softening the blow to your bank account. Read more >>

Categories: Racing, Running on a Budget
Tags: budget running, traveling

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