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The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Kids
Running
Powerful
Tennis
Hop
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I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Dad
Air
Air Conditioning
California
Conditioning
Consistently
Northern California
Pool
Summertime
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Thinking
Backyard
Hundreds
Northern
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A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Add
Benefits
Carbohydrates
Color
Colorful
Meals
Nutrients
Protein
Variety
Vegetables
Change Good Great
Great Way
Meal
Mix
Notice
Plate
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When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Dinner
Hey
House
People
Yummy
Wanna
Pan
People Say
They Say
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There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Family
Running
Able
Half
Joy
Marathon
Perfect
Share
Together
Weekend
Love Together World
Love Family World
Nothing
Love Family Together
Close
Festival
Participate
Runner
Where
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Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Athlete
Commitment
Fuel
Pro Athlete
Swimming
Your Body
Pro
Races
Runner
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We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Vacation
Magic
Date
Schedule
The Secret Of
To Live By
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If you're not mentally tough, If nerves undo you instead of focus you, If you don't have the inner arrogance That you absolutely have what it takes to win, If you don't see, in your mind's eye, A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win; And not because you can't.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Eye
Focus
Winning
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Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Blank
Blank Canvas
Canvas
Green
Orange
Protein
Yellow
Bright
Grains
Plate
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I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Interrupted
Midnight
Wake Up
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When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Running
Belief
Familiar
No Problem
Pain
Workout
Life Pain Me
Life Pain Your
Barrier
Beyond
Competitor
Life Me Your
Just Be
Programmed
Push
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Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Complicated
Exhausted
Fuel
Miles
Nutrition
Workout
All Day
Good Enough Day
Proper
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I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Breakfast
Cereal
Greatness
Healthy
Night
Noon
Single
Good Morning Breakfast
Every Single Day
Morning Good Breakfast
Loves
Gotta
Single Day
Start
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It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Running
Competing
Ideas
Mind
Next
Race
Worry
Yourself
Time Always Yourself
Person
Really
Time Yourself Your
Against
Always
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Time Always Mind
Through
Challenge
Often
Frequently
Preconceived
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I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Lifestyle
Pain
Pregnant
Veins
Child
Became
Candidate
Older
Ignore
Looked
Noticed
Second
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My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Cried
Lessons
Pool
Swim
Backyard
Option
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Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Start with a real breakfast; don't ever skip that. If you're waking up early for a run, make sure you drink at least a glass of water and put something healthy into your stomach before you go out the door.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Breakfast
Complicated
Healthy
Lessons
Nutrition
Skip
Stomach
Waking
Door
Glass
Waking Up
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I used to carbo load. But then I ran my first marathon, actually on a whim. All I could think of was that I needed protein. I remember going to the grocery store and buying one of those roasted chickens. I remember downing a bunch of that and, yes, I had some carbs, but that's what I felt I needed.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Bunch
Buying
Carbs
Chickens
Downing
Load
Marathon
Protein
Ran
Whim
Grocery
Grocery Store
Store
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The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Ocean
Ceo
Constant
Currents
Factors
Never Forget
Tides
Dealing
Lesson
Stands
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One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Dinner
Sweating
Afterwards
Thinking People Know
Downward
Equally
Girlfriends
Workouts
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Athlete
Moderation
Olympics
Work Out
Every Single Day
Girlfriends
Single Day
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I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Running
Home
Mom
Bike
Exercise
Helmet
Sweat
Mom Home Your
Lead By Example
Ride
Runs
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Comeback
Trials
Aid
Missed
Narrow
Olympic
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A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I'd be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Dinner
Intense
Nutrition
Swimming
Tired
Afterwards
Ate
Date
Trip
Workouts
Young Girl
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Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Amnesty
Chili
Dylan
Freshman
Freshman Year
Jam
Opening
Pearl Jam
Tracy
Best Good New
Bob Dylan
Concert
Cow
Eve
Nirvana
Palace
Pearl
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My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Breakfast
Busy
Clock
Habit
Healthy
Lunch
Pie
Miss
Run
Downstairs
Eaten
Hole
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With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Daughter
Bike
Hug
Long Way
Upset
Great Long Will
Bummed
Falling
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The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn't leave marathoning on a memory like that, so I am running this year to honor everyone in the running community and those unsung heroes from April 15, 2013.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
April
Boston
Honor
Marathon
Milestone
I Am Community Me
Turning
Event
Community I Am Me
List
Memory
Unsung
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To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Experience
Motivational
Work
Being Afraid
Big Picture
Certain
Champion
Hard
Hard Work
Losing
Pain
People
Race
Winning
Work Experience Hard Work
Think
Picture
Big
Afraid
Being
Get
You
Every
Too
Day
Embracing
Every Day
See
Thriving
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I know I'm not perfect at giving my body what it needs to refuel after a run. Recognizing my bad habits has helped me pay more attention to what I eat. I have been known to rush through my day without making nutrition a priority, so I work hard to prepare healthy snacks in advance of my runs and while the kids are at school.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Bad Habits
Not Perfect
Nutrition
Recognizing
Snacks
Work Me Day
Advance
Work Me Body
Habits
Prepare
Runs
Work Hard
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I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Kids
Running
Morning
Bars
Chocolate
Comeback
Dark
Injured
Peanut Butter
Salt
Sea
Sick
Staying
Life Love Time
Banana
Butter
Coconut
Favorites
Fueled
Helps
Meal
Peanut
Toast
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When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Busy
Cereal
Chicago
Marathon
Bar
Cup
Long Run
Schedule
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We had this thing at Stanford called the 'Campus Loop,' and then we had another run called 'The Dish,' and you'd run up to this giant satellite dish, which was probably extremely unhealthy. I would do those two runs, and I just found it so therapeutic. My girlfriends and I would have these great conversations about guys and school and life.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Campus
Stanford
Therapeutic
Unhealthy
Life Great School
Conversations
Dish
Giant
Girlfriends
Loop
Runs
Satellite
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When you're at a public pool or in your friend's backyard, knowing that your kids can get in and out of the water and protect themselves can make all the difference in the world. Something as simple as being able to flip over and get to the ladder can save a life. You can start your kids in lessons as early as you want - it's never too soon.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Flip
Lessons
Pool
Life Water World
All The Difference
Backyard
Ladder
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I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Dinner
Every Night
Family Ties
Good Times
Jeopardy
Laughing
Serious
Sitcom
Television
Theme
Ties
Trivia
Alice
Family Good Music
Watched
Cheers
Dot
Question
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I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.
Summer Sanders / Swimmer
Coffee
Couple
Sweet
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