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 [...]
Lessons In Summer Marathon Training
How I really feel about summer marathon training. A few summers ago, I bumped into a friend on a trail frequented by many local runners. I was out for a quick four miler and she had just [...]
Dry Martini: For Now
We’re over halfway through 2023 and I’m gonna go ahead and call it: this is my year of reevaluation. Maybe this phase is a result of my crone years rapidly approaching. Or chalk it up to my last kid [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Redmond Retreat Recap
We wrapped our Retreat in Central Oregon (Redmond, to be exact) on Monday. It was a magical, memorable time with about 60 women. Several repeat attendees deemed it our “best Retreat ever,” in part because of the variety of [...]
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 [...]
Seeing Herself as a Runner
With tomorrow being #GlobalRunningDay, we hope this post, by BAMRbassador Rebecca Atkinson, Ph.D., resonates. We know more of you are runners than you think you are! Back in September 2019, when AMR did a podcast episode about Runner Identity, [...]