12/23/2023 0 Comments Skedaddle half marathon![]() ![]() So, that Saturday, when I went out for my training run, I guess I was a little surprised.” “Not me, I couldn’t relax, and it was all kind of depressing. “We were cooped up that first Thursday/Friday, at home we didn’t have to go anywhere and didn’t have anything to do, and you’d think we could relax,” Hulstein said. However, Hulstein’s mindset proved anything but lazy after the initial weeks of the state’s stay-at-home directive and, like most, her mind and body couldn’t take it anymore. Life happens, things come up, COVID happens and you don’t feel like focusing as much… get into a lazy mindset.” “I’m not as diligent as I should be, and I tell myself I’ll have to be more so if I do another full (marathon) again,” she said. Still Hulstein might not be the best poster face of distance running, and she’s the first to admit her training methods aren’t always on par with her fellow harriers. “HIIT workouts (high-intensity interval training) and lifting (weights) can make such a difference.” ![]() “The training and teaching classes help me stay active and in shape, and for a lot of people running alone doesn’t help you get better,” she said. And Hulstein joined friends and fitness junkies Tracy Musch, Shelly Ludolph, Naomi Lorenzen, Theresa Draper and Shelly Kozlowski in races and for some training, eventually doubling her efforts in taking on a full marathon in 2018. Hulstein continued her fitness and running journey through races and teaching and taking classes at Anytime Fitness. “I’d never taken on long distance before, but I went along with it and found that I really enjoyed it – most of the time.” “She asked me if I wanted to run a half (marathon) and I said, ‘that sounds terrible, but I’ll try it,’” she said. And it wasn’t until a ‘so-called’ friend suggested a half marathon (Fargo) that Hulstein was sucked back into the sport. Competitors plot out a course, 13.1 miles in this case, whenever and wherever they choose as long as the run is of the specified distance and times are submitted online before the deadline (May 17, 11:59 p.m.).Ī three-sport athlete (volleyball, gymnastics, track & field) in high school, Hulstein was more of a sprinter than a distance runner. “We’re go, go, go people, and COVID disrupted everything in our lives… all of a sudden it all comes to a complete stop… WHAT?”įortunately, or unfortunately if you speak with Hulstein about her love-hate relationship with training, the Skedaddle promptly went to a virtual race format. “My last day of work was March 18, my daughter’s JO volleyball was cancelled and the world basically ended,” said the 2005 Pipestone Area High School graduate and mother of two. Ready to embrace a new course and, hopefully, set a new personal record (PR), Hulstein’s goals took a jolt when in mid-March everything came to a standstill – including the projected race. Hulstein had little need for Skedaddle’s suggested training plans for both beginner and intermediate runners, as she’d completed a full marathon and several half marathons since returning to running in 2014 at the Fargo Half Marathon. “I just run one race a year.” And this year Pipestone’s Brandie (Pantekoek) Hulstein chose to take on the popular Skedaddle Half Marathon in Sioux Falls, S.D. ![]()
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