Peachtree Road Race: What Will Your Verse Be?
What Will Your Verse Be? When I first started running nearly 15 years ago, I found it satisfied a yearning I didn’t even know I had: a desire to find and push my limits, to challenge my body and [...]
I’m Not Bad; I’m a Beginner
You're not bad; you're a beginner “Nick!” I yelled at the end of a frustrating boxing drill late last year, “Why am I so BAD at this??!!” My personal trainer looked me in the eye and said in a [...]
Atomic Habits: One Year Later
James Clear and his Atomic Habits entered my life a year ago with some simple suggestions on small changes I could make to have a big impact on my life. I’ll admit I was a skeptic. That said, I [...]
Running Free: Racing Without a GPS
Michelle has her watch on her right wrist, but she stopped looking at it—for real—after just a few minutes into a 10K. Mile 1 - Glance at watch to make sure it’s on. 200 yards later, another glance [...]
Spring Races Are Back
Happy faces at Happy Girls The beginning of the end of the pandemic is palpable, so we put a call out on our Facebook page to see if anyone was racing in the next few months. Joy tingled up and [...]
AMR Gears Up: 5K and 10K Race Day Essentials
Welcome to a series on Another Mother Runner: Race Day Essentials. Over the course of the next two weeks, we'll showcase favorite gear from a range of athletes for the 5K/10K; half-marathon; marathon; ultra (50K/50 mile); sprint triathlon; and relay. [...]
10 Truths about the 10K
Way back in the Dark Ages of the First Running Boom in the 1970s and 1980s, the 10K was considered THE distance race for “regular” runners. Only nuttzos did marathons—few women among them—and no one had even heard of a [...]
Mother Runner SBS Training for a Fast 10K
Despite it being surprisingly chilly (the mid-50s) for mid-June here in Portland, my BRF, Molly, and I have sweat flying off our foreheads as we rip off the second of eight strides. We’ve already covered six miles this Friday morning, [...]
Moving Vs. Race Training: Which Takes Priority?
If you've ever moved, you know it carries its fair share of stress. The purging, the packing, the coordinating. The unpacking! Add to that the chaos of purchasing a home, and it's hard to concentrate on anything else. We recently [...]
Martini Fridays:
Must be a Pittsburgh thing. Do you believe, mother runners? Race day for Adrienne Martini at the Pittsburgh Half-Marathon is finally here! She's all smiles...kind of. (Catch up on her journey with past episodes of Martini Fridays.) By the time you read [...]