Get off the Elliptical + Run With Us: Sarah Clem
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Sarah Clem, and you're listening to the Run to the Top Podcast. Hi there, my running friend, this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner, |
| 0:22.0 | and this is the Run to the Top Podcast, one of the first and only |
| 0:25.6 | running podcast dedicated to making you a better runner with each and every episode. We are created and produced by the expert team of running coaches at runnersconnect.net where you can find the best running information on the internet as well as running coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:44.0 | I don't know about you, but I certainly was not running marathons when I was in college. I remember going to the campus gym maybe a handful of times, but fitness was just not on my radar. I studied and hung out with my friends and maybe |
| 1:04.5 | partied a little bit, but I was certainly not someone who felt the urge to get |
| 1:09.3 | fit. Those were other people. But maybe I was actually missing out on something big. |
| 1:15.0 | Maybe I could have found not only fitness earlier, |
| 1:20.0 | but an entire community of friends as well. |
| 1:24.0 | Sarah Klem certainly thinks so. |
| 1:26.5 | She is the Director of Operations and Running Coach at charge, |
| 1:31.0 | an organization dedicated to igniting a passion for movement in college women. |
| 1:37.4 | Charge stands for changing health attitudes and actions to recreate girls. |
| 1:43.0 | They have chapters on 115 university campuses in the U.S. |
| 1:48.0 | and their mission is to free young women from the elliptical. |
| 1:52.0 | And to show them that fitness can and should be fun. |
| 1:56.0 | Sarah Clem has been an avid runner for the past 16 years and started the Charge Run Club |
| 2:02.3 | in order to help more women learn to love running. |
| 2:05.0 | She's coached over 500 athletes to complete their first 5Ks, 10Ks, and have marathons |
| 2:11.1 | over the past year and is looking forward to sharing the power of running with even more young |
| 2:17.1 | 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 age women than college at age yourself, but that's part of why I wanted to highlight this topic. |
| 2:34.1 | Maybe you don't have quite as much influence |
| 2:37.0 | over your daughter as you did when she was little, |
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