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Continue reading →: 6 Safety Tips for Female RunnersAs a woman, prioritizing personal safety while running is crucial. Vary your routes, share your location with friends, and carry a personal safety device. Stay alert, join a running group, and hide your start and end points on running apps. Listen to your body, stay hydrated, fuel properly, and always…
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Continue reading →: 5 Tips to Unleash Your Brat Summer
This summer, embrace your inner “brat” mindset to support and uplift Kamala Harris’s presidential run. Be bold, reject the routine, and have fun while doing it. Ways to have a “Brat Summer” include registering to vote, volunteering for a candidate or non-partisan organizations, rescuing a pet, wearing pearls and Converse,…
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Continue reading →: Products I Love for Sustainable Living Choices
This post discusses the journey of beloved beauty products from start to finish, emphasizing the value of using products until they’re empty. It also highlights sustainable consumption and shares favorite beauty products for daily looks and workout support. Recommendations include Stila One Step, Tarte Maneater Mascara, Huggies Baby Wipes, and…
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Continue reading →: Tips for Planning A Girls Trip
This comprehensive post offers a planning checklist for a stress-free girls trip. It shares personal experiences and provides tips on setting a budget, choosing a destination, organizing schedules, picking a theme, finding lodging, and packing essentials. Planning ensures a great, budget-friendly experience filled with shared memories.
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Continue reading →: Festival Survival Guide: What to Bring and Wear
During summer, Chicago hosts a variety of festivals, from neighborhood street fests to larger events like Pitch Fork and Lollapalooza. Packing strategically is essential, considering bag restrictions and the need for essentials like sunscreen, comfortable shoes, and refillable hydration options. Additionally, bringing a portable battery, a meeting plan, and fun…
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Continue reading →: 10 Essential Items For Your Travel Carry-On Bag
This post provides essential packing tips for a travel carry-on bag, highlighting must-have items and guidelines for different airlines. It emphasizes the importance of checking carry-on policies, packing personal items like medications and snacks, and includes tips for long flights, ensuring a smooth travel experience.
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Continue reading →: Easy Meal Prep for Marathon Training
The post discusses the importance of grace and simplicity in marathon training. It recommends kitchen tools for easy food prep, and provides easy recipes for marathon training. The recipes include Instant Pot Spaghetti, Slow Cooker Enchiladas, Korean-Inspired Ground Turkey, Chicken Burrito Bowls, and Bahn Mi Bowls.
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Continue reading →: Group Running vs. Solo Running: Which is Better?
The author started running alone before joining a group, initially hesitant due to shyness and preference for controlling her own schedule. She realized the benefits of group runs, such as camaraderie, celebrations, friendships, accountability, and safety. However, she also enjoys solo running for flexibility, quiet reflection, and quality listening material.
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Continue reading →: Smart Ways to Save on Destination Races
Discover budget-friendly strategies for participating in destination races, highlighting various tips such as combining race travel with vacations, sharing expenses with friends, maximizing travel credit card perks, and enrolling in loyalty programs. It emphasizes planning and strategy to enjoy races without overspending, ensuring exciting travel experiences.
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Continue reading →: 5 Marathon Training Hacks for Busy Runners
In this post, the author shares five essential life hacks for marathon training, aiming to simplify the process. These hacks include combining activities to save time, ordering groceries online, using a slow cooker for easy meals, freezing meals for later, and celebrating small victories. These strategies can help anyone training…
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Continue reading →: 5 Tips to Upgrade Your Style When You’re Addicted to Athleisure
The pandemic and marathon training have affected my style, but I’m now revamping my wardrobe. I ask friends for fashion suggestions, add jewelry, mix athleisure with business casual, wear fashion sneakers, and use a steamer for non-cotton materials. Check out my Amazon links and Forward Gear Athletics for casual wear.
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Continue reading →: How to Support the Running Community—No Miles Required!
Discover creative ways to give back to the running community without putting on your running shoes. From volunteering at races to organizing fundraising events, these five non-running support ideas will help you make a meaningful impact.
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Continue reading →: Run Commute Tips: Time-Saving Advice for a Fun Commute
This content provides strategic planning tips for a run commute, discussing aspects such as choosing the best day, packing snacks, preparing the day before, and managing the run day. The author shares their experience and offers advice for integrating run commutes into a busy schedule, especially while balancing marathon training…
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Continue reading →: Packing and Prep: 5 Half Marathon Travel Tips
This post shares five best practices for traveling to a half marathon. Tips include laying out the race kit before packing, packing it in the carry-on, bringing nutrition from home, resting and walking before and after the race.
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Continue reading →: How to Become a Micro-Influencer and Grow Beyond TikTok
The post provides essential advice for micro-influencers, emphasizing the importance of diversifying content beyond TikTok to reach wider audiences and avoid burnout. It advocates for focusing on engagement rather than follower counts, transitioning to written content, and utilizing budget-friendly tools for content creation. Genuine interactions attract brands and enhance monetization…
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Continue reading →: A Lifestyle Blog for Runners & Wanderers
The author of the post discusses their journey through different blog phases, from exploring the idea of class through “Canned Beer Classy” to sharing experiences on “Relish and Mustard” and their weight loss journey in “Life and Lizdom.” They’ve now started a new blog, “Run. Wander. Wear.,” focusing on running,…
Marathon Fundraising Ideas & Tips for Charity Runners
Hi! I’m Liz
I help busy women runners simplify marathon season, from fundraising to training to marathon race-day travel, so you can focus on running the miles, not the logistics. Let’s connect!
What You’ll Find Here
Marathon training has a way of taking over your whole life. My job here is to make marathon training simple again so you can enjoy your life. Most of what you’ll find tackles the part runners struggle with most: raising the money for your charity spot and hitting your fundraising goal without it running your life. Around that, you’ll find practical help with marathon training plans, marathon training tips, destination races, and running style, all written for women fitting serious miles around a full schedule.
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