Special Valentine’s Day Profile and Giveaway: Sparkle Athletic
We want to add some razzle-dazzle to your Valentine’s Day, mother runners. Because, let’s admit it: With dance class, basketball practice, dinner to cook, and homework to be supervised, sometimes it’s hard to let the romantic spark sizzle on a Thursday. (Or is that just in my house?!) So today we’re doing a giveaway with Sparkle Athletic (the new business name of beloved Team Sparkle). Since Thursday is typically our Follow This Mother day, we’re starting off with a profile of Elise, one of the three Team Sparkle founders. (We love these gals so much, we’ve already profiled Carrie and Kelly, and Kelly was on our podcast, offering up great advice on race costumes…
Hump Day Giveaway: Heart + Sole
A few things I love about running:
♥ It’s the ultimate mental drano. Feet move, head clears, mood soars. Pretty much that simple.
♥ It is solely and completely mine. I run or I don’t. I cross a finish line or I don’t. Nobody else is responsible, nobody else is relying on me, nobody else is in control. I own every simple, free step.
♥ The connection with other runners. You can run ultras or 5Ks, be a beginner or a Boston Marathon qualifier, turtle or rabbit. Doesn’t matter; you start to talk running, and the bond is immediate and surprisingly intimate, the mutual respect is tangible…
A Marathon Runner Gets Stopped in Her Tracks by a Bum Knee
My first baby, Phoebe, was born on a Thursday. Two days later, I came home from the hospital with my auburn-haired, pink-cheeked baby; by Sunday evening, I felt the urge to get outside and move. My friend Willow had stopped by to meet Phoebe, so I had Willow join me for a slow and gentle stroll in our neighborhood. The January evening air was cool and smelled vaguely of damp leaves, a refreshing change from the antiseptic atmosphere of the hospital.
Willow and I headed west, on the flat street lined with tall trees and 100-year-old homes. Before we’d even gone a block, I asked Willow to slow her pace…
AMR Connect: How to Use our Brand New Forums
When we relaunched this website about a year ago, we wanted to have a place where you could interact with other mother runners. Of course there’s plenty of connections on Facebook page, but those flit status updates by faster than I can blitz through an 800 on the track. (Ok, faster than I can clump through and barely survive an 800.) So we had an AMR Connect page, but it was super basic, ugly, and not terribly easy to use. So it went unused. (Really? You don’t have time to spend on a not particularly helpful or attractive page? I’m at a loss to understand…) Fast forward a year, and we sent the Connect page under the knife so you could, actually, you know converse with one another…
A Chat with Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run
Find out why Dimity dubbed this, “our best podcast ever!” Chris McDougall, author of the bestselling book Born to Run that spawned the barefoot running movement, dishes with Sarah and Dimity about the movie adaptation of B2R, his favorite running route, and the topic of his next book (which he admits to being “1.7 years” past deadline). Chris reaffirms the importance of running for fun and pleasure.
Follow along as a conversation about the 100 Up drill morphs into an idea of training for incarcerated individuals, and idle chitchat about running in Oregon leads to a possible side business for the trio…
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