Sabrina Little
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Assistant Professor @CNUcaptains. Ethics & Moral Psych. Trail & Ultra Runner. 5x National Champion. World Silver Medalist. Author of The Examined Run (OUP 2024)
Newport News, VA
Joined December 2010
đItâs publication day!đ. The wonderful âŠ@iRunFarâ© published an excerpt from The Examined Run. So grateful for their support and encouragement over the years!
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A mom of two broke the American record in the marathon today. A mom of four broke the American record in the half marathon today. Moms are really getting after it.
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One time, I went running around Notre Dame and couldnât get any of the Strava segments because a girl named Molly Seidel had them, and now I feel okay about that.
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Runners, you can only complain about the heat in August or the cold in January. Choose wisely.
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It is interesting how, if you intend to run 90 miles/week but only manage to run 88 miles, you are inclined to dwell on the 2 miles you didnât run instead of the 88 miles you did.
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âI am exhausted.â. *runs 11 miles*. âAlright, now I feel better.â.
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I will never (ever!) race Barkley marathons (#BM100), but I am glad the event exists as an outlier so that my races seem sensible and cautious by comparison.
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Chiropractor: âYouâre a runner? Some people run A LOT. A WHOLE LOT. Theyâll go outside and run 6 MILES.â.
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Iâm 8 months pregnant, so my shoe sponsor @hoka sent me a shipment of team gear, sized up, so I can keep feeling like a part of the squad while away from racing. Love this team and canât wait to line up alongside them again.
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A big shout out and friendly welcome to all of the kids who got cut from ball sports this week and were convinced to run cross-country.
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Guy leans out of truck: âMaâam, is this the same run that you were on ONE HOUR AGO? Or did you go home and rest in between the times Iâve seen you?â.
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Boulder, CO - 50,000+ people participate in the local 10K. Morehead, KY - police officer pulls over to ask if I need a ride somewhere because itâs odd to see someone running of their own volition.
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@CitiusMag @Nike I know there are bigger problems, but I would even prefer Calibri to this font.
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Having a 6-week-old and a two-year-old is the most exhausting thing I have ever undertaken. And that is saying something because, one time, I ran 180 miles at once.
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The âpro runners donât eat sweetsâ discourse is starting up again, so this is just a note to say that, throughout my running career, I didnât eat cookies everyday. But thatâs only because I like cupcakes much better.
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I stretch before I run. Way before. I stretched one time 11 years ago, and it still counts.
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Both BYU XC coaches gave interviews talking about prioritizing the character of their athletes, and both won NCAA D1 team titles yesterday. Itâs almost like character has a performance impact. Someone should write a book about that.
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Moms in the US Olympic Trials:.Kate Grace.Elle St. Pierre.Keira D'Amato.Sara Hall.Rachel Smith.Who am I forgetting? I am so impressed.
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Me: *runs 12 miles*. Also me: "Walk across campus to a different library? Wow wow wow, that seems pretty far??".
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When you look at your watch and it says 6:33, and you think, âYouâre fine; just hold this pace.âBut youâre not running. Youâre sitting in a chair. Itâs just 6:33 a.m.
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Pro tip:. Factory reset your GPS watch postpartum so that your training is not compared to earlier versions of yourself. My watch just congratulated me for a 2.5-mile walk as my longest endurance effort ever. Hahaha.
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Endurance athletes Toddlers. đ€ . Is it snack time?.
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This marathon season, remember that if you had a bad race (or a good race), our entire hobby is trying to take really fast steps and getting frustrated with ourselves when our steps are not as fast as we wanted them. It puts things into perspective.
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In my return to training, Iâve realized why people think running is very hard. Itâs because running is very hard.
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Of all of the takes (reasonable and otherwise) floating around the internet regarding doping, the worst is probably the one about how a pro runner would never eat a burrito. Sure, I donât eat burritos *everyday* but thatâs because of the existence of tacos and pizza.
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Idea:. When people share their running personal bests, they should have to share their personal worsts, too, so we get the full story.
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There is some guy in my new town who appears to have started his GPS watch every time he drove around town in his car in 2017. He owns every Strava segment. I am trying to be a big person about this, but I am *Little.*.
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It seems like the entire trail running world is in Chamonix, France, but I am running laps around parking lots in my neighborhood today. Shout out to everyone else doing the same.
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Really glad the Barkley Marathons event exists so that I can draw attention to it so that, by juxtaposition, my hobbies seem modest and reasonable.
After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 9:54. The 2023 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100.
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Itâs called WIN-ter because you have to train through it to compete well on the other side.
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Iâve seen almost this exact photo at the trail world champs. People ask why thereâs been a resurgence in American womenâs distance running. This is why. Weâre outdoing one another instead of undoing one another in competition. We work together & are much stronger that way.
Americans Sara Hall, Emma Bates, and Keira DâAmato shine in World Championships Marathon yesterday.
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Some news:. I have accepted a position as assistant professor at Christopher Newport University in Virginia @CNUcaptains, for Fall of 2022. It is an interdisciplinary (Phil/Psych) role in the department of Leadership & American Studies. I am grateful and excited to be a Captain!.
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Do you know that feeling when youâve had a nice hour-long session on the bike trainer, but itâs only been 4 minutes?.
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Fitness: feeling like youâre dying at a much faster pace than you used to feel like you were dying at.
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Some news: I am writing my first book! I am officially under contract with OUP. I argue that virtue ethics provides a vocabulary for athletes to better understand their own formation in sport, & assists them in developing a vision of what a rich athletic life can look like.
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This is incredible. 40+ 54-ish miles per day would be tough on any surface, but the Appalachian Trail is rooty, rocky, wet, involves a lot of ascent/descent, is often easy to get off trail, has snakes, loose dogs, and ticks. Tara is amazing.
There's a new Appalachian Trail record holder! . Tara Dower set an overall supported FKT on the 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail in 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, to be confirmed. Details:
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I felt tired and nearly skipped a tempo today. Instead, I had a snack and promised myself I would just start it to see how it felt. It ended up being my strongest session in a few weeks. You never know until you're out there.
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Every runner I passed this morning looked miserable. You guys, if we donât get our act together people are going to figure out our sport is terrible!.
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- Olympic marathon trials qualifier .- 50-mile road world record holder .- WS 100 course record holder. Now the first American man to win UTMB and in a course record . Jim has RANGE.
.@walmsleyruns wins the UTMB in a new course record of 19:37:43 and the FIRST AMERICAN MALE đșđž to ever win the race! #UTMB2023 #UTMBlive.
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Those who claim that running is 10% physical and 90% mental should know that, 100% of the time, we use our legs.
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My article, âA Case for Shame in Character Education,â was accepted for publication in Studies in Philosophy of Education. I am very excited about this one. I worked really hard on it. Abstract below:
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I regret to inform you that I did active stretching before my run like we are supposed to, and it did make a positive difference.
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Marathons are the perfect length. Theyâre not too long so that the training takes too much time out of your life, but theyâre long enough that you get to have some hard conversations with yourself during them. đ. 1st place, 2nd overall at Cave Run Lake Trail Marathon today!
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Young ultrarunners: Donât emulate the training of new, ascendant ultrarunners. You canât tell in the first few years whether their training is sustainable. Emulate athletes who have been in the sport for a long time, whose families & friends still speak well of their training.
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An annual greeting and hearty welcome to all of the kids who got cut from ball sports this week and were persuaded to join cross country! . However you got here, we love you just the same.
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If I made one mistake today, it was thinking I was ready for a much longer race than I was, rather than finding a race suited to where I currently am. I ran a 100K team qualifying time & my 2nd fastest 50-mile ever. Small wins. More: đž: @howiesternphoto
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Raise your hand if you are also a trail runner and not currently in Chamonix.
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My friends and family always ask how far/fast Iâve run that morning, and whether I say something grand or comparatively modest, they are equally congratulatory and pleased for me. The people who love you, love you, not your feats.
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Raise your hand if you a trail runner and are not racing in the Alps right now. đ.
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We love you, Frannie. On Saturday, we welcomed our second daughter, Frances Louise Little. 7 lbs, 4 oz and 20.5â at 41 weeks. We are all doing well and are thanking God for Frannieâs good health. Lucy (age 2) is thriving in her new role as big sister.
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I park next to the car in the faculty parking lot with 13.1 stickers on it to increase the likelihood that one day its owner and I can casually become best friends.
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I rarely disclose my 2nd vocation unless asked directly, so I wonder what my kidâs babysitter thinks about the 12 pairs of @hoka sneakers I have at the front door or the fact that I have so many sets of matching workout outfits that I look like a cartoon character.
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Sorry, but if you tell your professor you are running your first marathon, she may show up to at least two locations and scream her brains out. Congrats to everyone who ran One City this morning!
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Marathons are not hard . until they are very hard. then briefly not hard again (maybe!). then they are much too hard, but you are too invested at that point to stop.
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Physical feat aside, the restraint and mental fortitude Nick exhibited to run nearly perfect splits for 24 hours on a track, executing his own plan regardless of what anyone else was doing, through mounting fatigue, was the most impressive athletic performance I have ever seen.
There it goes! đ„ . Aravaipa Racing Teamâs own, @nickcouryruns just broke the American 24 Hour Track Record with this morningâs overall victory of 173.015 miles at the Desert Solstice Invitational Track Meet. Way to go, Nick! .đ· @howiesternphoto .#desertsolstice
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When your watch says 6:20, and you think, âGood, just hold this paceâ. but youâre not running. You are sitting in a chair. Itâs just 6:20 a.m.
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You guys! Sheâs at it again. Exemplary athlete and human @courtdauwalter #ws100.
Courtney Dauwalter leads the 2023 Western States 100 at Rucky Chucky (mile 78) in 11:58 elapsed. Sheâs 50 minutes under the record and pressing against the sub-16-hour barrier. History is happening. #WS100. Watch our pre-race interview with her:
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I am so grateful to see these generous blurbs from people I admire in both of my worlds--academic philosophy and running.
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I received an Accept with Minor Revisions for an article, but the recommended revision was to include a female voice in there. It seems like I did that because I wrote the article.
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Any time my toddler tries to run away from me instead of doing what I tell her to, I think, âI have been training for this my whole life. Unless you are prepared to run for multiple days, this will not be successful for you.â.
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I didnât know that there was a track and field to NFL pipeline, but now that Devon Allen has signed with the Eagles, Iâd like to announce to all of the other NFL teams that I am available and got an A in the football unit in high school gym class.
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When someone messes up, can we hold them accountable, while also not plowing them over? Can we sanction without demeaning?. Apropos of recent events in ultrarunning:.
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The Kate Grace, Leah Falland redemption tours are the feel good narratives I didnât know I needed.
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Two years ago today, I ran 80 miles around a track in AZ to secure a qualifying mark for the world 100K team. One year ago today, I was holding a newborn, putting in 12-hour writing days to finish a book. Different seasons đ€·đ»ââïž
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Happy Olympic Marathon Trials Day! I am losing my marbles already.
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Running in the pouring rain for 60+ minutes: Itâs not that bad. Walking across campus in light rain for 3+ minutes: I cannot abide this. May not survive.
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.@fast_women Yesterday, Devon Yanko won the Umstead 100 in a course record (14:23) and was the first outright women's winner in the 27-year race history!
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It is wild how a swing of 15 seconds per mile can mean the difference between 'I can run this pace all day' and 'I want to lie down on the sidewalk.'.
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Chiropractor: Iâve noticed that many runners even run in the rain. Me: Wow. Bunch of psychos.
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When my training is going badly itâs helpful for me to remember that my training has always gone badly. Iâve outperformed my training every single time Iâve done anything well because my running has never been positioned to be the number 1 commitment in my life.
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You know youâre in an area where there arenât many runners when a police officer pulls over to ask if you need a ride somewhere. Nope! Stranded myself out here on foot intentionally.
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When running pros write about running itâs called running prose.
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Throwback to that time I flew to Texas to race RR100 and visit my âfriendâ David, who crewed for my race in torrential rains. Anyway, weâre married now.
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Big week in the Little house: My daughter learned to ride a bike!
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I havenât been able to do one of these (âŹïž) stair races in a while, but when I return, it is OVER for you guys. This semester I teach on the third floor and always carry my Collected Works of Plato.
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These courses are not even similar. đ @courtdauwalterâs skill set is just all of the skills. Every single skill!.
Courtney Dauwalter (Salomon) wins the 2023 Hardrock 100 in 26:14:08, finishing 4th overall. This shatters the womenâs counterclockwise course record of 27:18:24 set by the legend Diana Finkel in 2009, and the overall womenâs record of 26:44:36 that she set last year. #HR100
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Best way to explore a city!. I am very fun to travel with if you like running to breakfast.
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My dad sent me some photos to see if I look like my children, and (1) no, I donât and (2) I had forgotten that my parents used to dress me like I was an associate dean of a small liberal arts college.
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Fully vaccinated â
. 2.5 weeks out from a COVID-responsible in-person race â
. Never going to take breathing in public for granted when all of this is over â
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Listened to a podcast ad about socks today that named athletes, including me, who wear those socks. (I do wear them.) Thatâs good targeted advertising because I am precisely the demographic that would wear the socks that I wear.
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Things Iâve missed:. -quadruple knotting my shoe laces with the care and attention of an elementary schooler.-tucking myself into the pack of men on the start line.-really racing! . then trading phone numbers with new friends at the finish line. I am so grateful to be back at it
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Thanksgiving break so far:. Attacked by a pack of dogs while on a run â
.Rabies shots and stitches â
.ER doctor asked me to explain Kantâs categorical imperative while I got rabies shots â
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Hope someone tells Harveyâs students what he did this week.
After four and a half days and 460 miles, Harvey Lewis has won BIG'S #backyardultra with 108 loops. A new WORLD RECORD. He is. the last one standing.
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First run in the 6-minute pace range again since probably June! I am not a fan of rebuilding fitness from scratch postpartum. But legs are like elephants. They never forget.
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My daughters hold hands on stroller runs. I know more interesting things are happening in the world, but this makes me endlessly happy.
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Workouts are for building fitness, not demonstrating that you already have it. Writing this for myself.
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This was somehow the most controversial tweet of my life, and thatâs wild because I am a philosopher. Sorry for the ire I generated. đ I was trying to call myself out for my own fickle waysâwhining in both the heat and the cold. đ€·đ»ââïž.
Runners, you can only complain about the heat in August or the cold in January. Choose wisely.
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Runner thoughts:. Wondering how the Grinchâs heart growing three sizes might impact his aerobic threshold.
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I wonât say who it was, but one person started chanting âall done! no more!â 0.8 miles into our hike.
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Imagine doing the same activity everyday for the better part of your life. Imagine how significantly that activity would shape you. Lots of setbacks this year. But I am back doing my everyday activity againâputting pennies back into the training jar, one penny at a time.
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Mom things: . yelling âfire truck! Wee-oh-wee-oh-wee-ohâ and then realizing the toddler is not in the car with you. You are alone.
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People often ask whether I am afraid of bears on trail runs. Yes, they are definitely something I think about, but my greatest woodland foe is geese. Welcome back to goose season, runners.
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The virtue of magnanimity:. -rightly perceives oneâs abilities.-aspires to great things.-does those great things. Congratulations to @courtdauwalter.
Courtney Dauwalter (@SalomonSports) wins the 2021 #UTMB in 22:30:54. Itâs the fastest time run by a woman on a full-length UTMB course. She finishes seventh overall. Our pre-race interview with Courtney: .
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Pro tip: If your watch is telling you to move, take your watch off.
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Itâs time for another start line!. After an 8-year sabbatical (đŹ), this weekend, I will return to the loop format style of race at @aravaiparunning #DesertSolstice. Excited to see everyone. Itâs been so long that I feel like a novice in the event.
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