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Dear Future Self,

Notes from the quiet edge

Dec 21, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

The Era of Confessional Womanhood

Are we all just angry, complicated woman?

Nov 2, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Race Mode to Rest Mode

Notes on changing seasons, shifting pace, and standing still

Oct 24, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Milena vs. the Marathon: A Story in Three Parts

Memories and meanderings from my marvellous first marathon

Sep 30, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Legs of a Gazelle, Heart of a Lion, Will of an Ox: Marathon Day is Here

Milena's last meandering moments on her first marathon

Sep 20, 2025

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Fat Girl, Fit Woman: The Lies We're Told, The Lies We Live

Apr 4, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

A Feminist Killjoy's Exploration of Mediocrity

May 9, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

The Day After the Finish Line Always Equals Day 1

May 2, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Lift like a Women who Can Fight a Bear in the Forest: Six Reasons Strength Training Will Change your Life

May 23, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Recent posts

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Meandering moments before the marathon

One last, long run and now to taper

Sep 12, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

7 Marathon Training Lessons with 7 Weeks to Go

A brutally honest and rather self-indulgent field guide to the mid to final stretch

Aug 15, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

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Between Strides Ep 2: A tenderly unhinged conversation between two women training for their first marathon with Tyler Donohue

The body, the bullshit, and the beautiful mess of becoming a runner (and hopefully a marathoner)

Aug 8, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Between the Pages and the Packing Tape: A Meditation on Books, Belonging, and Becoming

Slowing my stride this week to unpack my thoughts while packing up my life

Aug 1, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

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Between Strides Ep 1: An extra-ordinary conversation with my friend Jenni

This may or may not be a podcast. But someone ran 21K with zero training and lived to tell the tale.

Jul 28, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Feed the Faith, Starve the Doubt

Milena's Mini Marathon Memo #1

Jul 11, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

Bumbling and Bustling in Budapest

The subtle art of not shitting yourself while trunning (travel + running)

Jul 9, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

A love letter to carbs, protein, and the freedom to fuel my body guilt-free

How I’m learning to eat for recovery, resilience, and running on my own terms.

Jun 30, 2025 • Milena Bacalja Perianes

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