| Women's Health March 2012 |
Think recovery is for sissies? Think again. When you're well rested and hydrated, your body actually burns more calories and is better equipped to create and maintain lean muscle mass. Jayme reports on the essential elements of recovery using the latest scientific research, proving that everyone should take a guilt-free recovery day. |
| Sunset March 2012 |
Jayme writes up Table Tours' new cocktail walking tour of Denver—a 1.5-hour tasting in the Mile High City where participants get one-on-one time with three of Denver's top mixologists—as an Editor's Pick for Sunset magazine. |
| Elevation Outdoors March 2012 |
Instead of retiring, 58-year-old Eric Reynolds, the founder of Marmot, liquidated his assets and moved from his home in Boulder, Colorado, to one of the most dangerous places in the world - Gisenyi, Rwanda, on the Congo border. What inspired the lifelong mountaineer to make such a drastic life change? Jayme reports in this compelling Q&A. |
| Women's Adventure Spring 2012 |
Twenty years ago in Nepal, when Toni Neubauer's guide said he wished his village had a library, the Lake Tahoe-resident and former educator took his words to heart. She founded Rural Education and Development (READ) to bring information - books, periodicals, internet - to isolated villages in the Himalayas. Today, 55 self-sustaining, community-owned READ Centers are transforming communities in Bhutan, India, and Nepal. In October, Jayme traveled to Nepal and joined Neubauer in the village where it all started to write this feature for Women's Adventure. |
| Running Times April 2012 |
Jayme profiles trail runner "Frozen Ed Furtaw," and his obsession with competing in the Barkley Marathons, called the toughest race on earth, thanks to an impossible course that gets harder every year. |
| Elevation Outdoors April 2012 |
Colorado is emerging as a true wine destination as vineyards nestled into the valleys of the scenic western slopes of the Rockies continue to rack up the awards. Warm days, cool nights, and low humidity make this region perfect for cultivating wine grapes. Jayme reports on how to best explore this area, vineyard-hopping by bike, of course. |
| Women's Health May 2012 |
New studies show that the current method of periodization training (three weeks on, one week off), isn't necessarily the best approach for women. What works better? Training following your menstrual cycle. Jayme introduces cutting-edge research coming out of Stanford University in this two-page report. |
| Men's Journal May 2012 |
What do you get when you mix craft beers and river rafting? Brews with views, of course. Jayme covers beer crafter rafting, the travel trend happening in Idaho, Oregon, and California, where every raft trip includes a brewmaster, and the details on how to get in on the fun. |
| 5280 May 2012 |
Jayme introduces aquaponics, a synergistic gardening technique that grows fish and plants together in the same system, and Sylvia and Alan Bernstein, the Boulder couple who are putting the method into practice in their own backyard. |
| Breathe June 2012 |
Type II diabetes is on the rise in an unexpected demographic—young, fit women. In this health feature story, Jayme investigates why, in the past decade, the number of diabetes-related hospitalizations has doubled among people in their thirties, and why women are 1.3 times more likely to be admitted than men. |
| Runner's World June 2012 |
Most marathons offer prize money and medals, but not the Westgate Half Marathon in Kenya. First prize is a pregnant goat. Jayme profiles race director Shivani Bhalla to find out more about what it's like to put on a race in the Samburu tribal region of Africa, and Shivani's cause, the Ewaso lion conservation project. |
| The Bark June 2012 |
Stand-up Paddleboarding is not only fun for people, but dogs too. Most dogs who enjoy the water seem to be naturals at accompanying their owners on a SUP. And it may just be a coincidence, but paddleboards are the perfect size for one person and one pooch. |
| Wend Summer 2012 |
Two years after a hurricane leveled Port-au-Prince, leaving 1.6 million homeless, Jayme heads to Haiti to test the theory that the country needs to break it's dependance on handouts and NGOs. She'll spend a week backpacking across the central plateau, talking to locals, camping in a different village each night. |
| Women's Adventure Summer 2012 |
In 2008, trauma from a near-fatal car accident resulted in an anxiety disorder that forced Jayme to stop road bike racing when she started having panic attacks while riding. Four years later, having recovered from the anxiety that made her hang up the bike, Jayme finds redemption riding the mountains of Patagonia. |
| Runner's World July 2012 |
We've all seen a runner with a dog, but a donkey? Jayme writes about burro racing, a blend of trail running and animal handling, where runners compete with a donkey in tow. The sport has it's roots in Colorado's mining history and if the Western Pack Burro Ass-ociation is successful, will soon be the official state sport. |
| Mountain Magazine Summer 2012 |
Jayme pens a one-pager on 37-year-old fly fishing guide-turned scientist-turned entrepreneur Shannon Skelton, and his Colorado-based company, CFI Global Fisheries Management, an inspired organization that's responsible for restoring streams all over the world. |
| 5280 August 2012 |
Denver resident Steve Domahidy is using Formula One race car technology to create a new breed of road bikes that will debut this summer. Jayme details his plan, the bike's specs, and discusses how this bike will change the sport of road cycling forever. |
| Runner's World August 2012 |
Most runners don't realize just how big an impact sleep can make on their training. Jayme lists five scientific reasons why sleep makes you stronger and faster, dispels some common myths about quantity and quality of sleep, and offers tips from sleep experts on how to catch all the z's you need. |
| Breathe September 2012 |
Jayme joins a week-long women's artist retreat on the rugged shores of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. Here she'll hike and kayak in some of the most spectacular natural scenery on the planet, exploring fjords, bays, volcanic rock shores, and coastal lowlands set in the shadow of show-capped mountains. But adventure travel is not the point so much as the conduit – on this trip, each woman is journeying to the center of her own heart. Jayme narrates what she finds. |
| 5280 September 2012 |
Food injustice, where whole neightborhoods—known as food deserts—lack access to fresh, affordable, healthy food isn't just a condition of the developing world. It happens right here in Denver, in places like the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood where residents have to take three city buses to reach a store that sells fresh produce. Jayme reports. |
| Runner's World September 2012 |
A plateau is something every runner will encounter, an unavoidable part of training. The key is how you handle it. Sports psychologists say that barring overtraining, it's possible for a plateau to be completely in someone's head. Jayme investigates for the Mind + Body column. |
