Runcation Travel provides international running vacations for runners. Liz is the founder and produces all the content for the website, social, and newsletter. You can find our newsletter archive here.
Liz has contributed freelance print and online articles for Competitor Magazine (now Podium Runner), including this piece on the San Quentin Marathon.
Liz has contributed freelance writing to METER Magazine for Tracksmith, such as this piece on Dirtbagging: The Unconventional Lifestyles of America’s Elite.
Liz has worked in an editorial role in the 2018 update of Moon Travel Guide’s 101 Great Hikes: San Francisco Bay Area.
Liz served as the Principal Investigator (PI) on research examining the health benefits of physical activity on young adult cancer survivors, which was published in the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology. Liz is familiar with reading scientific journals and translating study results and scientific language into terms that can be shared and understood by broader populations.
Study Abstract:
Despite the health benefits of physical activity (PA), limited research has examined PA interventions in young adult cancer survivors (YACS). This study used a two-group parallel design to examine the effects of a 7-day outdoor adventure camp vs. waitlist control on PA levels among YACS. Secondary aims examined effects on sedentary behavior and PA correlates.50 camp and 66 control participants were assessed at baseline, end of camp, and 3 months.Intent-to-treat analyses indicated that, relative to baseline, camp participants had significantly (p = 0.0001) greater increases in PA than controls during camp (+577 vs. +9 minutes/week) and 3 months post-camp (+133 vs. -75 minutes/week, p = 0.001). Camp participants also reported significantly greater improvements in TV viewing (p = 0.001), hours sitting (p = 0.001), PA variety (p = 0.0001), barriers to PA (p = 0.007), and enjoyment of structured activities (p = 0.04) during camp but not 3 months post-camp.A week-long outdoor adventure therapy camp increased PA levels during camp and 3 months after camp termination, although effects were attenuated over time.Outdoor adventure therapy camps may increase PA and its correlates in YACS, but future research should explore methods to promote sustained PA after camp termination.
Like the Wind: For Mount Tamalpais, A Topographical Love Letter. Like the Wind Magazine Issue 19
Liz contributed as a columnist to Weekend Sherpa researching outdoor adventures and contributing her writing and photography.
Liz is a an experienced running coach and kinesiology instructor based in Lake Tahoe and the Bay Area, California. She offers personal running, nutrition, and training services here both online and in person around Lake Tahoe, Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been coaching since 2009 at the high school, collegiate, and adult level.
You can also find her at Whole Athlete and Ran Marin as a running coach, and the Distance Coach for Branson Track and Field. She served as the Head Track and Field Coach at College of Marin for four years, has worked as a trainer for The North Face’s Mountain Athletics program, taught strength training and Kinesiology classes at the College of Marin, and worked with Girls Stepping Up For Change, a young women’s empowerment program through athletics.
Her athletic background includes competing as an NCAA Division 1 cross country and track and field athlete for four years at Columbia University and a year at University of Southern California (fight on!). She was recently inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the first women's team to be inducted in school history. She currently competes for the Impala Racing Team in distances ranging from the track to ultramarathons on the trails. She has worked as a cross country and track coach, backpacking guide in Central America, manager of an adapted paddling program for individuals with mobility impairments, sea kayaking guide, group leader for high altitude service learning trips in Kenya and Peru, and is in her seventh year directing the summer running program for RanMarin.com.
She offers online and in-person coaching to individuals and groups. Liz has worked with youth soccer teams on speed and agility, adult and youth on learn to run clinics, and held sports nutrition and women’s specific running clinics. Her group running clinics can cover the topic of learning to run, gait analysis, injury prevention, speed and agility, or building stamina and endurance. Some of her recent clinics include a women’s running clinic at Sports Basement San Francisco, a 3-week series with Girls Unite San Francisco, a Learn to Run program at Nueva School’s Intersession Program, and a Learn to Run clinic at College of Marin. Get in touch to find out more about Liz’s coaching clinics and training programs.
Purchase an individualized coaching program here for runners, including online training programs, in-person coaching, gait analysis, and group coaching sessions. Online training programs are available as well as in-person and group sessions in Lake Tahoe, Truckee, and San Francisco Bay Area.
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