Dry Martini: Down on the Farm
Rye (left) and Barley are going to pull me through my next half marathon. [record scratch] [freeze frame] Yep. That's me leading a team of teenage oxen around while wearing olde time-y garb... Like so many people, the last [...]
AMR Gears Up: Running Skirts + Dresses
The next edition of Another Mother Runner Gears Up is here, and we're featuring running skirts and dresses. We have #motherrunners put key running gear to the test, then deliver the results so you can grab the gear that works [...]
Ultra Sunday
On top of the trends, my kids run barefoot. This post is a repeat from exactly 12 years ago: we originally published it on May 24, 2010, just two months after our first book came out. The other [...]
Running with the Girls
During the pandemic, I started a new thing with the girls: running with them. (One of the many “new things” I started - didn’t we all!?) They have seen their dad and me lace up our shoes and head out [...]
20 Inspiring Running Tattoos
We love a good running-inspired tattoo almost as much as we love nailing a tempo run, a post-run nap, and the feeling of brand new shoes. And, apparently, so do many of you. In a recent Facebook post, we asked [...]
Habits, cheaters and face cream. The joys of an aging mother.
The realities of aging. Last month I turned 44. This is the first birthday I feel legitimately old. As in, aging. Don’t roll your eyes at me and tell me I’m young. I know I’m only 44 and [...]
Foam Rolling: A 30-ish Day Challenge
Hitting the quads with a post-workout chocolate milk and Netflix in the background. On a random Saturday in March, I—Dimity—went to pee after a long indoor bike ride that included lots of simulated climbing: high resistance, low cadence. [...]
Walking With Mother
Mother went for a walk today. Sometime around my mother’s 91st birthday, in 2019, she stopped working at the Greensboro Children’s Museum and decided it was time to move in with one of her three children. (Yes, that’s right, she [...]
50 Things We’ve Learned from Dimity
Let's hear it for the birthday girl! The written word is Dimity's love language. So instead of flowers or even chocolate (!), the ideal 50th birthday present for Dimity should be a post in which our staffers and [...]
Dry Martini: Not Seneca 7
Last weekend should have marked team Chafing Like a Flockstar's triumphant-ish return to Seneca 7. The fates made other plans. The race itself hasn't been held for two years. There is no way to socially distance a hundred teams of [...]
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