by Stephanie Artis | May 10, 2016 | Kelly's Blog
Multiple people the week after Wildflower (which was last week) kept telling me how tough I am. Which I thought was funny. I told my husband, Steve, this and he also thought it was funny, so that’s either encouraging or not. I don’t feel tough. I feel like I had...
by Stephanie Artis | Apr 17, 2016 | News
After a winter of hard training, Team Freeplay was more than ready to get the race season started. There have been all kinds of, what we like to call, “tune-up” races over the last few months: running races, mountain bike races, Spartan Races. But now the...
by Stephanie Artis | Mar 1, 2016 | Kelly's Blog
Short version: I ran 1:26:27 according to my watch and 1:26:29 according to the official results. Apparently, I was so out of it at the end that I came to a complete stop as I pressed “stop,” and then it took me an extra two seconds to walk all the way across the...
by Stephanie Artis | Jan 25, 2016 | Dina's Blog, Uncategorized
My Fight Song – Remembering my greatest season, as the next is on the horizon… “Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all...
by Stephanie Artis | Mar 11, 2015 | Anna's Blog
Leading up to the race: Just a week before the race I had hit the infamous training wall so many athletes hit. It is a common physical and emotional reaction towards heavy training blocks or after a big race. I had all the typical symptoms and this made for a very...