WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL YOUR TOPOS TAKE YOU? (OCTOBER CHECK-IN) Welcome to our monthly check-in with three fortunate BAMRbassadors that are chasing (or chased!) big athletic goals in 2023. Laurel, Rebecca, and Nicole told us about their goal [...]
AMR GEARS UP: Running Vests for Cool, Wet Weather By Sarah Bowen Shea I believe a vest is the most versatile piece of running gear: Wear it solo in damp or chilly weather, or layer it under a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
