Good Eats: Muffins
Autumn rings in the season of busy school mornings and rushing out the door, fingers crossed you remembered backpacks, breakfast, and your brain! Now more than ever you need quick, grab-and-go options for busy days; we say look no [...]
Dry Martini: Sweet September
Some running lessons I can’t seem to learn. Like, you’d think I’d know by now that the hardest part is just getting out of the door. Or that mid-run math is always wrong. Or that 99% of people don’t [...]
Getting Lifted Out of My Comfort Zone
A picture to represent my strength training; I am not bold enough to break out the camera at Lion's Den. Ever since COVID lifted, I've had a few notions floating around in my head. #1: I need [...]
The Beauty of Fall Running
As summer fades in the rearview mirror and I cross my fingers that we’ve used our air conditioning for the very last time, I am ready to welcome the best running season of all: fall. Running is a four-season [...]
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 [...]
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