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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Runcation Tips
On foot: It’s the ideal way to see a new-for-you place—and when you proceed at a running pace, you can see so much more! Yet there are a lot of details and logistics to figure out when planning a [...]
Our Favorite Things: Beach Reads
As we turn to a new page on the calendar (yes, we still have paper ones hanging on our walls!), we hope many of you are headed on vacation this month. And, if so, we suspect you might have [...]
Our Favorite Things: Cross-Training Activities
There were long chunks of my life when I ran six or seven days a week, which seems unimaginable to my 50-something self! Cross-training (plus daily P.T. exercises) allows me to run three, maybe four, days a week now. [...]
Solutions to Summer Chafing
One silver lining about being injured (this is SBS): no chafing. Yet now I’m back among the running (I did 5 miles on Saturday!) just in time for sweaty summertime. Since it’s been a while, I need to remind [...]
TMI Tuesday: Avoiding Tummy Trouble
Last month on the Another Mother Runner Facebook page, Billy Jo lamented that she’s been “experiencing the runner's trots” on half-marathon training runs. She wrote: “There are times I can barely make it home without feeling like I'm going [...]