Cindy Present | Get Out Girl

Smiling after running 17 hours in blistering heat when everything hurts and you're drop dead tired; applauding when you are scared and about to enter 52 degree water for your first Ironman swim; not thinking about the grueling hill ahead, but the crunch of the gravel where you're at. Telling yourself "This Girl Can" instead of asking how the heck will you do it when a huge blood blister shows up on the ball of your foot during mile one of your marathon during Ironman in Kona? Positivity was the difference between a DNF and a "got 'er done"! We LOVE this article in this month's Trail Runner on the science behind how positivity influences your performance!   Click Here!

100 Days of Blue. To be in, near, on or under the water for 100 days consecutively between Memorial Day and Labor Day (ok, plus one extra day if you're truly counting). It's all in the spirit of Blue Mind, the growing science that behind  how water not only positively impacts our lives but our minds as #waterismedicine. We spent 4 days with Wallace J. Nichols over Memorial Day. Many hours sitting in casual conversation with others, in, around or near the water. A recently divorced mom of an 11 year old struggling to find balance, connection, herself. A counselor of vets with PTS and children with anxiety, constantly giving her all to others and not considering herself. A wife, mom, sister-in-law and grandmother, all rolled into one, and consequently carrying the hardships, pains and struggles of a family of over 25 people. A young woman dealing with a chronic auto-immune disease who is discovering water to be her solice, her source of movement, her secret for less pain. Th