The Runner's Trip: Run Long, Travel Far, Discover More
trail running and travel blog by Sarah Lavender Smith
In six weeks I’m hosting a big event to extol the virtues of long-term travel and encourage people to think outside the box in terms of their career and life choices. Yet I find myself struggling to walk the talk. Taking a big, meaningful trip again is starting to feel impossible for a number of […]
Do you want to take a break and travel the world? Of course you do—who doesn’t? It’s the ultimate dream. The trick is moving from dreaming to doing. Attend the Meet, Plan, Go event I’m hosting October 18 to find out how. Here’s info on the panelists, along with career and travel advice from one.
When I connected with a new advertiser, Urban Adventurer, they lifted my spirits in the midst of a jaded blogging moment. Find out what an Urban Adventurer is.
In many ways, the year after the year away has been a journey for us, too. This post highlights the challenges and rewards of “re-entry”–of returning home, re-establishing a routine, and adjusting professionally and personally after extended travel.
This guest post from my friend and fellow runner Christine Chapon is not your typical Paris running guide, but it’s authentically Parisian! Her “memory lane” run is a celebration of the buildings, streets, houses and monuments of significant persons and events associated with times she spent living in Paris.
This post comes from Monica Scholz, who traveled around North America to set a record of running the most 100-mile races in one year. She managed to travel, on average, every other weekend and complete these endurance events while holding down a demanding full-time job. Here’s her advice, which is targeted at ultrarunners but in […]
Imagine running a 100-mile race. Now imagine doing it every two weeks, and sometimes on consecutive weekends. That’s what Monica Scholz, a full-time attorney from Canada, did in 2010. I profiled her to find out how and why she set a record of 25 100-mile races in a year. “Running was not the hardest part—it […]
In this guest post, Taylor Chase describes how a run one day in Budapest planted the seed for starting Blaze Travel Guides. Blaze is a travel-guide startup geared toward runners and other active souls (or should I say “active soles”?). I recently discovered Blaze and wish I knew about the company’s super useful city running […]
I love to travel but hate to fly. Thankfully, I found a person to help me cope with my irrational fear (but is it really irrational?) that I’m going to fall out of the sky.
Our running gear made our bags burst. Here’s how we kept our promise to pack only what we easily could carry, and still have the gear we needed to run on our trip.