Where In The World Will Your Topos Take You? (September 2023)
WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL YOUR TOPOS TAKE YOU? (SEPTEMBER CHECK-IN) Welcome to our monthly check-in with three lucky BAMRbassadors that are chasing big athletic goals in 2023. Laurel, Rebecca, and Nicole filled us in on how long until [...]
Our Favorite Things: Day Planners + Calendars
While we love a good scroll through a review section both for entertainment and should-I-buy details, we also know the absolute best recommendations for clothing, TV shows, desserts, books, and the like usually come from friends. So we're introducing [...]
AMR Gears Up: Trail Running + Hiking Essentials
AMR GEARS UP: Trail Running + Hiking Essentials By Sarah Bowen Shea Whether you hike as a lower-impact cross-training exercise, as a fun family activity, as a way to scratch an adventurous itch, or as your main forward-motion [...]
Finding Flow on the Run
I haven’t run a half or full marathon since October 2017. Yet I have crystalline memories of stretches of races and training runs in which I got in the flow. Where my focus of attention is only on the [...]
The Power of a Dynamic Warm-up
Ready for your running world to be rocked? Let me introduce you to the magic of a dynamic warm-up, like my genius physical therapist, Amy Benton, Chief Clinical Officer at Prime Performance P.T. in Portland, did for me. According [...]
7 Ways to Train Your Brain for Peak Performance
by Amanda Ryan Fear Running is often our escape from the demands of everyday life, our chance for a little peace and quiet amid the chaos. If you’re like me though, it’s anything but quiet inside your head on [...]
Making Butterflies Work for You
Don’t let nerves get the best of you, whether on a long training run or in a race. Instead, harness those “butterflies” and let them lead you to success. That’s what two of our BAMRbassadors do, thanks to some [...]
Back to Basics: How to Have a Successful Long Run
T.S. Eliot must not have been a marathon runner as he thought April is the cruellest [sic] month. If a runner had written “The Waste Land,” it would assert that August is the toughest time as it often involves running [...]
Where In The World Will Your Topos Take You? (August 2023)
WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL YOUR TOPOS TAKE YOU? (AUGUST CHECK-IN) Welcome to our monthly check-in with three lucky BAMRbassadors that are chasing big athletic goals in 2023. Laurel, Rebecca, and Nicole filled us in on how their training [...]
Seven Reasons Why I Love Pickleball
As I’m sure each and every one of you know, today is National Pickleball Day! 😉🙃 While I still firmly and firstly define myself as a runner—on a recent morning, I opted to run five miles instead of heading [...]
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