Sarah Clem is the director of operations and running coach at CHAARG, an organization dedicated to igniting a passion for movement in college women.
CHAARG stands for Changing Health Attitudes + Actions to Recreate Girls. They have chapters on 115 university campuses in the US and their mission is to free young women from the elliptical and show them that fitness can (and should!) be fun.
Sarah Clem has been an avid runner for the past 16 years and started the CHAARG Run Club in order to help more women learn to love running. She’s coached over 500 athletes to complete their first 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons over the past year and is looking forward to sharing the powers of running with even more young women this fall.
Now I realize that many of the runners that typically listen to the Run to the Top are more likely to be parents of college women than college-aged yourself, but that’s part of why I wanted to highlight this topic. Maybe you don’t have quite as much influence over your daughter as you did when she was little, but if you have a dream of running a marathon with her some day, like I do with my daughter, you might want to share this episode with her and see if there is a CHAARG chapter at her school.
And for those of you who are listening to the Run to the Top because you are college age and found out about us from CHAARG, we’re glad to have you here. And maybe, just maybe, you’re dreaming about running a race with your active mom and dad and you’ll share this podcast with them.
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When coaching endurance runners of all levels to be their best, I always emphasize the need for proper hydration with the right balance of electrolytes. Most athletes I’ve coached are surprised to learn that their sodium needs are actually much higher than they expected and it’s been hurting their performance.
Part of the reason athletes need much more sodium than they think is not just because they lose electrolytes through their sweat, but also because athletes tend to eat very healthy diets. They’ve been told that salt is a bad thing in food and frequently don’t get enough for their lifestyle.
Much of the science of sodium is based on people who eat highly processed diets which also are very low in potassium. It could actually be the low potassium levels causing the issues that sodium has been blamed for!
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