MOMS ON THE RUN

We had a rockin' good time at our second destination run weekend, Run Arizona, Jan. 13-17, 2023. More than 120 runners with Moms on the Run gathered in Tempe for Rock 'n' Roll Arizona, a race series featuring a 5K, 10K, half and marathon — complete with live music throughout the race courses!. It was fun to see so many represent MOTR with our bright shirts and smiling faces. 

Moms on the Run is excited to host a live podcast during our Run Arizona destination weekend featuring Olympian Carrie Tollefson and Sara Slattery, speaker and author, head coach of men's and women's cross country for Grand Canyon University and successful NCAA and professional runner.

Sara is one of the all-time running greats from the University of Colorado; she graduated in 2003 with a degree in economics and earned a master's degree in secondary and adult education in 2005. She was a four-time NCAA champion, 10-time Big 12 champion and a 10-time All-American as a student-athlete, setting three school records (indoor mile, indoor 3,000 meters and outdoor 5,000 meters). In 2016, Sara was inducted into the Colorado Athletics Hall of Fame.

Sara was a professional distance runner, competing in national and international competitions. In 2007, she was the Pan American Games champion in the 10,000 meters in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. She was an alternate for the U.S. team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and has been a member of other U.S. national teams.

Sara and two-time Olympian Molly Huddle co-authored "How She Did It: Stories, Advice and Secrets to Success from Fifty Legendary Distance Runners," an inspiring book about women's athletic achievements. A book signing will follow the live podcast; pre-order the book here.

Moms on the Run National Fitness Director, Olympian Carrie Tollefson, will host the live podcast, with special guests Moms on the Run founder Karissa Johnson and OOFOS' Wendi Kremlin, at the Rock 'n' Roll Arizona expo on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m.

We are excited to welcome Jacky Hunt-Broersma, our featured speaker at our Run Arizona destination weekend. She will be speaking to us at our Sunday night dinner with an inspirational message titled "I can do hard things." Jacky is considered one of the most accomplished amputee ultramarathoners — completing 104 marathons in 104 days in 2022!

But she wasn't always a runner. In 2016, Jacky lost her leg to Ewing's sarcoma — a type of bone cancer. She said in an interview with CNN, "I thought runners were crazy...but I kind of just gradually got addicted to it a little bit." Now, her favorite running distance is 50 miles.

Jacky has garnered an impressive amount of records in a few years. Not only does she hold a few world records, she was the first amputee to take on the brutal TransRockies mountain stage race (Trail race) in Colorado — a brutal race that covers 120 miles and 20,000 feet of climbing and running.  She also become the first amputee to take on the The Naturalist 25K trail race in Franklin, NC, which covers some of the most challenging terrain in the southeast and has a total of 5,500 feet of climbing.  

If you are attending our Run Arizona destination run weekend, we can't wait for you to hear her inspiring story! Find out more about Jacky here.