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Ep 123 - Manage Anxiety with Mindset and Movement: An Ultramarathoner’s Guide with Sav Holmes

• Megan Devito • Episode 123

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In this episode of More Than Anxiety, I’m chatting with ultramarathon runner Sav Holmes about managing anxiety and finding calm, even when life feels overwhelming. 

Sav shares her personal experiences on running ultramarathons as well as actionable tips you can use to quiet your mind and create mental peace whether you're at work on working out. 

Whether it’s breaking big goals into bite-sized pieces, using movement as meditation, or learning to sit with discomfort, this conversation is packed with wisdom for women balancing the chaos of life, work, and everything in between.

Key Takeaways:

  • Move to Manage Anxiety: Learn how movement, whether it's a walk around the block or training for a marathon, can help you find calm and focus.
  • Mindset Matters: Shift your perspective by reframing negative thoughts and turning challenges into opportunities.
  • Balance the Hustle: Learn how to set boundaries, prioritize recovery, and manage a busy schedule without burnout.
  • Embrace Imperfection: Hear why showing yourself compassion during setbacks is one of the most powerful ways to keep moving forward.

If anxiety and overwhelm have you feeling stuck, this episode will inspire you to keep going, one stride at a time.

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Megan Devito:

Welcome to the More Than Anxiety Podcast. I'm Megan Devito and I help ambitious women break out of the anxiety cycle that keeps them frustrated and stuck. Get ready for a lighthearted approach that will change what you think, how you feel and what you believe about yourself. This podcast is full of simple steps, a lot of truth talk and inspiration to take action so you walk away feeling confident, calm and ready to live.

Megan Devito:

Welcome to episode 123 of the More Than Anxiety podcast you get to hear from Sav Holmes. Sav She is a high-endurance athlete. By high endurance, I don't mean she runs marathons, I mean she runs, like, two marathons at the same time; really, really big races and she does it with a lot of mindset work. If she can run these races and manage her mine, I promise you that you can learn so much from her about how you can manage your mind at work, and at home, be successful, and have fun doing it.

Savannah Holmes:

Absolutely. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm Sav. I'm 20..., actually 26 as of two days ago.

Megan Devito:

Happy birthday

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, little baby over here. Yes, I've been in the athletic world for quite a long time. Several years ago I decided to chase the pro card and that's kind of been the pursuit ever, since. I specialize in triathlon and then ultra endurance. So, as you can imagine, with ultra endurance it's ultra long distances and a ton of time, so that has been my primary focus. And then, when I'm not doing athletics, which is rare, I'm full-time in marketing and digital, so I have the flexibility to work from home, but it's a full-time training schedule and a full-time job all at once.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, okay, so you have exactly what people need, because, first of all, I have always said like if I'm running, probably someone's going to try and kill me. Like help me, but I get it. I mean, so you tell me about ultra long, as opposed to like a regular triathlon. First of all, school me on what you do.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, so ultra distances covers anything above a marathon, which is 42 kilometers. So usually we're looking at 50 K plus. I'm in Canada, so I calculate everything in kilometers. Yeah, so that would be the primary distance and that's exclusively for running. In the triathlon I was specializing like the 70.3. So it's a half Ironman distance. So you're looking like a 2.5, I think, kilometer swim. You've got a 90K bike and then a half marathon. So I'm simultaneously training three disciplines the swim, bike run, obviously incorporating strength, and then mobility into there as well. Um, and then I have kind of a unique training program that incorporates a lot more running than the typical athlete or sorry, triathlete would have. Um, just because my passion is really in those long distance running races.

Megan Devito:

Yeah. So out of the three swim bike run, you like the running the best, right.,

Savannah Holmes:

I do

Megan Devito:

I don't know.

Savannah Holmes:

It's great, yeah for sure.

Megan Devito:

Good deal. I raised swimmers. So I'm like, okay, yeah, I've always joked and said that like, if anybody asks me ever to do the triathlon, I'm like sign me up for the swim part, but the rest is on you. So I like this. Okay, but that has to take a lot. First of all. I mean, I have so many things I want to talk to you about now, like mindset, because let's just start there. Let's just start there. Tell me what you have to be thinking, first of all to be able to run that far. Like, what has I mean first? What are you thinking? Second of all, what are you thinking? Second of all, what are you thinking about?

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, I think the beauty of the ultra distance and why I gravitate to it is because it actually pushes you into a state of meditation, and the goal really, when I'm out there, you can shut the mind off. Um, and the beauty of like ultra distances is, even in a race format, you eventually end up by yourself. There's just no way you're going to be paced perfectly with anyone. Um, and my objective while I'm out there is really how do I silence the mind? Because there comes a point where the body is just so aggravated, um, regardless of how much training you do, you can't really train your feet to not blister, you know you can't train your hips to not get tight, like there's just inevitable parts of you that are going to start breaking down.

Savannah Holmes:

And the objective I have when I'm out there is really to silence the mind, lean into the body and just allow myself to go. Um, if I get to a place of excruciating pain, or just that point of when the mind starts to speak and gets very voluminous or maybe even dark, um, it's just affirmation, really, and just constantly your knee hurts okay, well, my calves are still strong. Or your traps get sore. It's like okay, well, my back is still feeling good, so it's that focus on what is going well and hoping that, by applying your mind to that, it expands it and it ultimately does.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, yeah. This is so important and I feel like there's going to be a thousand mic drops on this episode already. I'm like, oh boy, here we go, okay. So I think, first of all, you've just mystified people by the fact that you said that you can silence your mind, because so many times, especially for people who are anxious, you know how it gets your body hurts and your brain starts. I like to explain it as it starts, to create stories, to explain why you feel the way you are. So tell me more about this. Tell me more about how do you get to that meditative place, because I think a lot of times people will think, oh, meditation, that's where you close your eyes and you hum and you think about your breathing.

Megan Devito:

How is it when you're running? How do you do that?

Savannah Holmes:

That's a great question. I think there's multiple systems and it really depends on the state that I'm coming into, because I think there is a point where the emotion that's overriding is fear. There can also be moments where the dominant emotion is pain, or maybe it's just frustration, or even boredom. Like I'm throwing boredom in because, like that actually makes you anxious. You start your line at 5k and you're like I'm not here for another nine, 10 hours. That can be extremely like provoking for anxiety. So I think the big thing is just allowing myself to come into the run, invite those emotions. Don't fight them, just let them come in and then, as they come in, figure out what the best process is.

Savannah Holmes:

A lot of times the headphones come out and it's just like hey, listen to your feet. Um, sometimes it's by having other people around, like I love to have pacers. Um, because those conversations pull me out of myself. They enable me to be able to focus on something um a little bit, you know, like not just my pay, not just my pace. Um, sometimes I do, I like I break it down.

Savannah Holmes:

That's another really huge component of ultra running. You do not get to the start line, thinking about the 50 or 100 or 150 kilometers ahead of you. Like, I'm running the 5k and this is what I'm focused on, running the next 10k and this is what I'm focused on. So there is that achievement with your body of like, I'm focused on my pace and focus on my breath and focus on my posture. There's also periods of time where I actually dedicate like a period of the run to different things in my life. So maybe it's the next 5k. I'm focused on gratitude for the people around me and I just allow myself to think about that. Um, so like, there's a lot of different ways, but I think the key is breaking it down, getting tuned in to like where you are. Um, sometimes it's distraction, but sometimes it really is. Like, eventually your mind tires and that's the beauty of ultra sports is, your body is exhausted and it eventually just surrenders and you do, you just get to that beautiful space.

Megan Devito:

Yeah. So when it surrenders, when your body surrenders because I'm not a runner is that the runner high? Or is that just like, okay, we're just going to do this and she's just going to keep going?

Savannah Holmes:

That's a great question. I have many different interpretations of what the runner's high ultimately is.

Megan Devito:

I think it's a myth, but go on.

Savannah Holmes:

So everyone says and I won't blame you for thinking that, because my theory too is the runner's high always comes after the wall, so there's like this inevitable dip, and when it gets stark I'll actually get stoked because I'm like, oh, I'm about to hit it. Good yeah. So I would say like the runner's high is definitely like that endorphin influx that you inevitably get. But I think for me the runner's high is that state of just like it's completely neutral, I don't know. It's like the silence of all emotion and you're just like moving, but you're not even really aware that you're moving. You're not trying to move, it's like your body's just in motion and you're going along for the ride.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, this is so good. So when I am coaching someone, a lot of times we talk about circumstances and one of the things I'm always like your circumstance, even though you have a lot of emotions about it, they're always neutral, right, like, if you told me I had to go run a 75K, I would be like absolutely not. Like never, ever, ever, ever. Like I have thoughts. But just to bring that back to what we talk about so often, whether it's I'm feeling anxious, I'm feeling guilty, I'm feeling bored, boredom is so huge, like we cannot.

Megan Devito:

I just saw a post on Instagram or Threads the other day about how we are so terrible at tolerating boredom. Now because we haven't been bored in years, we just scroll our boredom away. So for you to even bring up the fact that boredom is such a difficult emotion in there, I think that's really important. So for people who are constantly grabbing their phone or doing something else, to be able to sit in that boredom and just to say this is neutral. It means nothing the fact that your hips hurt and all of that. So when you feel that pain because I'm assuming there's a lot of pain at some point when you're running what do you do to make that neutral?

Savannah Holmes:

That's a great question.

Savannah Holmes:

I think it's tough as an athlete because there's a part of you that wants to take care of your body. There's another part of you that's like I got to get across the finish line and so you got to stifle stuff. But I would say when that pain comes up, it's like acknowledge and then move on, because if you sit in that entire run and you're just focused on that, it amplifies. I just ran like 50K for my birthday with a bunch of buddies and it so funny 5k and it was very spontaneous, like we left at three o'clock in the afternoon. I just like stuck some shoes on and headed out and fueled the whole thing with, like potato chips. It was horrible, but it was a really good time.

Savannah Holmes:

Um and 5k and I was like, oh, I forgot to bandage my feet and I could already feel the blister and it was like stinging anyways.

Savannah Holmes:

But I just was like I'm not going to talk about it, I'm not going to think about it, and I kept focusing on like where can I put my stride to reduce kind of that, that friction on that area? And as I focused on that and I focused on like well, I'm still able to run, like it's a little stingy, but like whatever, um, and then you know, when I took my shoes off, it was like disgusting, it was horrible and everyone was shocked that we were able to do it. But ultimately I think it really is a matter of like, where your energy is focused on because you just cannot feed those thoughts, you can't feed those pain. If it's something where I feel, like the tight hips, that's a really frequent issue I have you know, I'll stop to address it to the point of like do some hip cars, or maybe like do some stretches real quick, maybe run, but there comes a point where you're just you got to fixate on where you want to go, more than like where you are.

Megan Devito:

So yeah, this is such a good analogy for people. I told you before we started recording that so many people who are listening, I feel like, are trying to balance this job, which I mean obviously you're doing too right. You said you've got working, mostly remote, doing a lot of marketing and doing all that, but you're also balancing this whole potential like professional athlete right, and that pause and being able to say okay, being able to decide where your focus goes. How do you, how do you balance those two things? Like how do you balance training to be this professional athlete, but also I've got this career over here and I'm like trying to balance my mind anyway, like there's so much that goes into that. That I think that for the people who are listening, who are trying to balance whether it's overwhelming work, responsibilities and what's happening at home what do you do that works for you?

Savannah Holmes:

That's a great question.

Savannah Holmes:

I think, yeah, I structure time, not content. So I always make sure that it's structured and it's put in the calendar. I think for some reason we only take our work seriously. I'm going to show up and I got to be in this time, and that's not negotiable. I treat my recovery and kind of those mental recharges as non-negotiables as well. So if they're in the calendar they don't get moved, even if I want to sleep in or I want to like go out and socialize, if I've scheduled and for me it's like it's journaling, like that's kind of the thing that grounds me, gets me back into my good space, or like a good hike, um, so when that's in the calendar, that doesn't get moved.

Savannah Holmes:

I think part of the thing too is I make a very cautious effort to what's the word here, like enter the space for training and then I come back to work and my mind shift, or my mindset shifts massively in between those things. So when I'm in training it's like quite aggressive and I'm able to put a ton of energy into it and it can be very like intense. When I come back into work it's it's settled in, like it's like okay, I'm now in work mode and I think just realizing that different emotions are going to be beneficial in different spaces is really powerful as well. But ultimately, just when training's in the schedule, it's not negotiable, I treat it just like aable, I treat it just like a job. So if it says, like I got to be at the pool by noon and I have the flexibility of maybe having to getting to do that midday or something, but yeah, ultimately yeah.

Savannah Holmes:

I don't know if I'm answering this right

Megan Devito:

No, I think you are. I think you are because I what kind of pings in my head was you schedule in recovery? Yeah, yeah, that's, that's a big deal, because recovery for you is certainly not going to look the same as recovery for you know, somebody that's not an athlete.

Megan Devito:

But, I think that, for people who don't know what recovery is in terms of sports, explain a little bit about that, because I think there's a really good parallel here. For people, whether you want to call it self-care or recovery or anything else, the fact that it's scheduled in means it's important.

Savannah Holmes:

Wow, yeah.

Savannah Holmes:

Well, and I think too, recovery and rest kind of get like introduced a lot. When I'm in recovery mode, it's not necessarily like I'm sleeping or I'm having a nap, it's about really recharging your soul, because there's kind of this abuse that athletes put on themselves. Where it is, you're not paying attention. You got to like cancel out the fear. You got to cancel out the doubt. It's really important that you also take time to invite those emotions to come back up and be like why was I frustrated in my practice today? Why was this overwhelming?

Savannah Holmes:

And my theory, with everything I call it like it's kind of used quite frequently in the athletic world the theory of thirds. So the third of the time you're just in a plateau, you're going through things. It's not really a high, but it's not a low, it's just very neutral. A third of the time, whether in practices but I think career would be a similar thing you're on the highs, you're like hitting the PRs, you're crushing new goals, it's exciting. And a third of the time is you're in the low and you feel like you can't hit the targets and you feel frustrated, you feel tired, you feel overwhelmed.

Savannah Holmes:

None of those things are bad, but it's just the ratio and so, especially with my coach, like I ensure that all my practices are meeting that and if we're having so many that are just like highs, I'm not working hard enough, and if I have too many lows, we're too challenged, and so I think I'd spend a lot of time in that recovery mode analyzing that and making sure that's in a really good ratio. So recovery really for me is like analyzing what I'm doing, what's working, what's not working, and also just taking time to not be in a stressful state. Like it's really easy to get stuck in that fight or flight mode when you're in an intense career or an intense athletic pursuit and just going to a space where the watch is off, I'm not looking at my heart rate, I'm not checking anything, it's like stats are gone, I'm just tuned in. That's really important.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, and stepping away and so being able to like, yes, I am an athlete, yes, I do these things, but right now I'm the girl on the couch watching the movie.

Savannah Holmes:

Absolutely

Megan Devito:

Good, good, I love that. So do you use the same rule of thirds when you look at your business or your job?

Savannah Holmes:

I do, yeah, I do because, um, I think it applies in all like sectors of life really um, because, yeah, if you show up for work and you never feel challenged, you would feel very complacent and probably bored. Um, so I, when I see those experiences, when I have those emotions of like wow, this is really tough, it doesn't freak me out anymore because I'm like, oh, this is actually a positive thing and I think just reframing right, like we know that anxiety and like excitement release the same three chemicals. So it's all about how you frame it, and I think the thing athletics has taught me so much is like that challenge is something to look forward to and appreciate, because you recognize it as a form of self-improvement.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, and that you took the time to go back. This is a big one and I think everybody needs to hear this twice, maybe more than twice. But going back to revisit the emotions that you didn't like, we have such an intolerance to anything that's not fast enough or that is uncomfortable, like God, don't make me feel uncomfortable. I don't think I can handle it. And you are out there doing it on purpose and then, after you do it on purpose, you're like come back, let's do it again.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, yeah, self-inventory is key, right? Because I think, too, something that's really common is, when something doesn't go our way, we go into self-sabotage mode and it's like, oh my gosh, like why can't I show up, why can't I meet the targets that I had set for myself? When you go into kind of like a self-evaluation after any experience in your life so a training session or a big meeting or job interview or something like that um, um, basically what you're doing is enabling yourself to recognize all the circumstances, what else was at play and what else was contributing to that that day. Because it isn't always an issue, dude. It's like, oh yeah, I slept four hours before a training session. Maybe that's why it was crappy. I'm not a horrible athlete, it just was this. And, uh, I think it takes some of like the pressure off to always be operating on the state of perfection.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, and we do. I mean, we're so mean to ourselves. Yeah, yeah, and I just I can't even imagine being in a situation where I was putting myself out there to like the physical extreme that you are and being able to function at all, if you were like God, you're a crappy runner. I can't believe that. I can't believe that you can't do this today. Who were you to forget your bandaid on your foot, like now you're going to have blisters.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, yeah, that's interesting yeah.

Megan Devito:

So what is the hardest part? Because what I think will be the hardest part, I'm guessing, is probably not the hardest part.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, hardest part.

Savannah Holmes:

Of the athletics and balancing, or Just both.

Megan Devito:

Both yeah. What's the hardest part of the athletics portion, but what's the hardest part about the balance?

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, the hardest part about the athletics portion. It's really hard, I don't know. Oh, that's a good question I'm thinking of.

Savannah Holmes:

Like there's so many things that are hard when you're in the performance mode, like the comparison is obviously quite difficult when I'm racing, but not when I'm training. I think when I'm training it's having the effort being respected. When it's not congratulated, so it's easy to receive respect from your community and for them to kind of get behind the sacrifice that's demanded of this pursuit when you've got like a stash of medals and you're on the podium. But the process of going from good to great and actually becoming like a world champion, that's a massive leap and it's a quiet one, it's done in solitude and it's done without all the accolades, and so a lot of people just feel like there's a lot of judgment, right, because you're saying no and you're placing these boundaries but you actually have no evidence for why you're doing it yet. So that's difficult. On the athletic side it's just kind of dealing with all the moving parts. I find my work one of the easiest things because my boss is also a triathlete, so he understands a lot of what's going on. But the community aspect is probably the most difficult, um, which kind of segues into the balance portion.

Savannah Holmes:

I think it's really difficult because when you're in athletics, everything is intense and you become very defensive about making sure the conditions are right, because you want to show up ready, you want to be prepared and you want to be in a good headspace. And it can be really easy to cut everything out and just wrap yourself in bubble wrap and be like now I can, can train perfectly. That's not realistic. It's like you've got family visiting in town, you have a work party that you have to attend, there's so much that you have to come out with, and I think my biggest thing is communicating that effectively so that people recognize that it's not them. It's like this is just what I'm pursuing. So the balance part is probably more to the community than to my job and also shifting my attitude, because athletic staff would not do very well in a community, because it's like there's no empathy, there's no like. You're just intense. So, yeah, making that shift of like, okay, now I'm in, I'm in this person. That's really important to make actually, but it's difficult.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, and I'd like to thank you for admitting that it's difficult, because I think so often we can get stuck in one energy, whether you want to call it like athletic energy or masculine energy, or you know, like go energy, whatever it is, we all have two sides of that energy. Everybody's got feminine energy, everybody's got masculine energy. But if you're putting all of your focus into that one energy to be able to say, oh wait, it's time for me to switch it over, because if I go into this group with the same like I am going to do this thing, yeah, it can put a lot of stress on you, but also on the people you're working with, because they may be living their life in this whole community energy which, my guess, is not quite as like intense as athletic energy.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, exactly yeah, recognizing the need for that shift is key. And then just also like providing segues. I used to be really notorious for going straight from a training session and then like diving out to a social event, and I learned that I actually had to come down, Like I need to go for a walk, like a 20 minute walk, or I need to spend a few minutes listening to music or whatever it was, to just kind of ground me again. And then I go out and kind of show up in that way, in that capacity.

Megan Devito:

You have amazing insight and balance. Like you are talking to me, like you are some wise 80-year-old sage, I'm like what the heck is happening right now?

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, I've got a lot of time in the head. It's ultra running.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, but really for most people who spend that much time in their head, it doesn't go well. I just got off the call with somebody. I was like here's the problem. We think way too much. Especially where we are right now, where we can learn anything, all we have to do is pull up our phone. We know too much, we think too much For you to have huge blocks of time where you can very easily get into your head. That's amazing.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, I think too, it also speaks volumes to like the necessity of filling your mind with positive things, because it's like you're going to go to default mode when your, when your body's tired and you start to break down. And so if you have just this entire landscape of positive thoughts, good messages, um, like you you're when you go to that space. It's a beautiful space to be like. I don't actually fear where my mind goes um in ultra running, because it's it's it's a massive influx. It's like the music I listen to I'm super picky about it. The books that I read super picky about it. And I think, if, if you become very selective about what you allow to enter your mind, you start to actually enjoy spending time in it.

Megan Devito:

That is perfect, like perfect, because we do, we take it all in. Oh, just a little bit of this, but I don't know why I feel so bad and I'm like I do.

Savannah Holmes:

I know why you feel bad.

Megan Devito:

It's like this is why you feel bad. I'm just going to tell you you don't need to read that, and we do it with things like the news, or we do it with social media, or we do it with you know what so-and-so said at you know, you go out and they're like, well, they said this. I'm like, well, halt. And the fact that you can, I think that's just really good evidence for people that this is possible. Yeah, and so many people would say, well, I don't think it's possible for me, right, what would you tell them? Like, have you ever been one of those people that, like you get up in your head and you're like, whoa, that was a scary place today, or has it always just been easy for you?

Savannah Holmes:

Um, I would like to say it's been easier, but I don't know if that's just because I compare myself to um. Like you know, we have a culture very rampant with depression and anxiety, and so maybe in some ways, I feel like I've gotten off the hook easy, but at the same time, I can go through an entire like I don't know massive list of things I've very intentionally done that have made it easy. So, yeah, I actually don't think it's automatic, I think it's a choice. Um, I think one of my biggest frustrations is like people are like oh well, if I was like that, I would do that, and it's like no, I do that and that's why I'm like this.

Megan Devito:

So the reason that the reason you can do this is because you know the ins and outs and it's so important and I just for anyone listening to this podcast guys you can do this is because you know the ins and outs and it's so important and I just for anyone listening to this podcast, guys, you can learn this stuff. I'm not saying that you're going to go out and run like a 75 kilometer race ever, but I am saying that the mindset stuff and how to balance your life and really the whole rule of thirds is so good, I love I. These are the things that I wish people would teach little kids. Like your life is going to be a third amazing, a third neutral and a third dumpster fire. Like it's going to happen. Yeah, exactly, and we just put so much focus on the stuff that makes us feel bad because it feels so necessary to solve problems, when you are just telling everybody. The God's honest truth is that you can choose where you direct your brain.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, a thousand percent. And I think one of the biggest shifts that I made very early on in my athletic career because I was raised overseas I didn't have like a typical like going through the high school route and then coming to a college Like I came into the game quite late and everyone says like why, why could you do it? And my is like well, why not? Like what does anyone else have that you don't, or that you can't eventually have or eventually develop? And I think that's the question I pose to people is like, if you genuinely want it and you're willing to put in the work, like why not?

Megan Devito:

so yeah, I'm very passionate about that it's so important and it's so important everybody, I mean not even, yes, everybody. I mean not even, yes, every, every. But I'm just thinking like all ages, like if I think that we try to do it when we're little kids and then somewhere along the line, like, we stop and we just stop believing that we can. But you know, when we're little kids and we're like, and I'm going to grow up and be a astronaut or whatever they're going to be, and then somewhere along the line they're like, nah, I just can't, I can't do that. But yeah, why not?

Savannah Holmes:

A thousand percent. Yeah, I mean and ultimately that's how I got into ultra was I had run a like marathon. I was like why can't I run more, Like why do we just stop, you know, at these distances? So I think that's the beauty maybe of really long distance sports it shatters the ceiling of your doubt, Because if you can push your body through that, then you realize you can push your mind through it too and you're just invincible at that point.

Megan Devito:

That's amazing and I remember when I was little, my dad ran marathons. He did one ultra marathon and I remember him finishing and like throwing up and being like that was great and I'm like, was it? Yeah? Was it Because you just threw up? Did you really like it? Yeah?

Megan Devito:

But, yeah, but there is something about that and very, I just think it's so important for people to know that, like, if anybody can push their body to do those kinds of things, then if you are the person that's starting out and you are just like I wish I could go for, you know, I wish I could feel calm enough in my mind to walk around the block, you, you really can and actually what you're doing like studies just show that the more that we can go out and be, you know, outside and using running as meditative and there are apps for this guys, like there's like walking meditation apps and things you guys can do this without the running part. You can do it with walking and it's so good for you.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah, a thousand percent.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, so people want to connect with you. Where do they find you? What's up at work? Where can they meet with you?

Savannah Holmes:

So Instagram's kind of my main handle right now. It's @Stories of Sav on Instagram. Linkedin would be Sav Homes and then my website is savathletics. com, but keep most people updated on the gram.

Megan Devito:

Yeah, what else do they need to know? Anything oh.

Savannah Holmes:

I don't know, just freaking, go out and run a marathon.

Megan Devito:

I love that I'm going to be watching because I'm like she's going to be professional and it's going to be so amazing, Like, so what have coming up? Do you have big races and things coming up?

Savannah Holmes:

I sure do. Yeah, this year. Well, obviously it broke my neck last year or this year, sorry, we didn't even talk about that, and that is so important.

Megan Devito:

Why did we not talk about that?

Savannah Holmes:

That's all good.

Megan Devito:

And by the way, she got hit and broke her neck. I know it was kind of a big deal. How did I miss that?

Savannah Holmes:

No, it's all good. Yeah, so this year it's kind of like getting back into the lottery. But I mean honestly, it qualifies for Worlds, like right after the accident. So hopefully it just will go into more World qualifications and then get pro-carded by the fall. But yeah, we'll just into more world qualifications and then get pro carded by the fall. But yeah, we'll just be going through Canada and the States in the Ironman 70.3 distance and then some marathons and some ultras as well.

Megan Devito:

Amazing. Thank you so much for coming and talking to us today. It's been so much fun and you can come back anytime. I still want to hear your story about your neck.

Savannah Holmes:

Yeah.

Megan Devito:

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