What Would Another Mother Runner Do?: Megan the Marathoner
Megan, definitely not flat, enjoying the Pittsburgh Marathon in 2011. This email sailed into our inbox a few weeks ago, and Megan, a mother runner with five kids under the age of 11, agreed to let us throw [...]
Week 1, AMR Virtual 5K: Bibs, Badges, and Aimee + Mandi
Just like the mother runners who will proudly sport it, The AMR Virtual Run bib multitasks: it's a combination training countdown and race momento. As we venture down this 10-week training program, we are going to check in [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: Running through Daylight Savings Time Shift
Forget the Ides of March: It's Daylight Savings Time you've got to beware this month! T.S. Eliot might have called April the cruelest month, but Dimity told me recently she thinks March is the hardest month to run [...]
AMR Virtual 5K: Let’s Get It Started + Everything You Need to Know
Insert yourself here. (You can just hear their laughter, right?) Welcome to the First (Annual? Maybe. We'll see.) AMR 5K, a training program and run where we, righteous, fierce badass mother runners that we are, will all push [...]
Solo Parenting & Running: 6 Ways to Make It Happen
Mother runner Melinda and her family in 2012. This spring, her husband will leave for a year-long deployment, but Melinda is determined to keep up with her running. Melinda Kunz realizes her everyday routine is about to change [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: How To Party with Another Mother Runner
A neat half-dozen mother runners. You may have seen the pics on our Facebook page of the 10 house parties—a bunch of our tribe getting together for drinks, nibbles, laughs, motivation, race stories, great giveaways and amazing swag bags—we co-hosted in [...]
A Runner Finds Herself—and Her Health
These charts have lit up our Facebook page over the past 15 weeks. This email landed in our inbox this weekend, and we couldn't not share. (And I couldn't not write a worser constructed sentence.) Anyway, reading the [...]
Getting into the Training Groove: It’s Not Always Pretty
I'm feeling it now, but it wasn't the smoothest of starts for marathon training #4. (Beth, one of my BRFs and a professional photographer, snapped this picture of me earlier this month. She captured a blissful moment for sure!) [...]
Two Steps Forward, Then Three or Four Back: Day 96 of Ironman Training
If I didn't already have a middle name, I think Dimity Challenge McDowell has a nice ring to it, don't you? So remember that post about my slipping and falling in Salt Lake City, and not breaking my [...]
7 Ways to Deal With an Unsupportive Spouse (And Keep Running!)
7 Ways to Deal With an Unsupportive Spouse by AMR Makes sense to all of us, right? And if happiness is running ... When mother runner Celeste posed to the AMR tribe the tough question of how [...]
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