2021 Highlights: Symbolic Success
As 2021 draws to a close, we can say with certainty this year has been a marathon, not a sprint. We wanted to take the month of December to look back at the milestones, miles, and memories that shaped the [...]
2021 Highlights: Celebrating Running Firsts
As 2021 draws to a close, we can say with certainty this year has been a marathon, not a sprint. We wanted to take the month of December to look back at the milestones, miles, and memories that shaped the [...]
2021 Highlights: Silver Linings
As 2021 draws to a close, we can say with certainty this year has been a marathon, not a sprint. We wanted to take the month of December to look back at the milestones, miles, and memories that shaped the [...]
Gratitude for: Healthy Healing
In late September, BAMRbassador Aimee Bouchard had a scary crash during the bike portion of Ironman Maryland. Already 75 miles into her 112-mile ride, Bouchard blacked out—possibly due the heat of the day or a reaction from the jellyfish stings [...]
Gratitude Is: Finding the Right Shoe (for you)
I'm now up to Brooks Ghost 14s and have never looked back. (Also: see if you can find the sneaky corgi in this picture.) Before I became a runner, I didn't give much thought to the shoes on [...]
How to Support a Marathoner: Three Tales of Teamwork
OMG. The shirts. It takes a village to raise...a marathoner? We certainly think so. While training for and running 26.2 miles is pretty much an individual endeavor—your own legs have to cover the distance, after all—having a marathon [...]
Back to Basics: Become a Morning Runner
There’s no rule that you must become a morning runner, or get your runs done in the morning at all. Depending on your circumstances—work schedule, a preference to run later in the day when your toddler is napping, or your [...]
Back to Basics: How to Run Faster
Sure, leisurely runs with your best running friends where you talk the entire time (and solve all of the day’s problems, natch) are lovely. Truth is, though, you won't get much faster running at the speed of chat. So if [...]
Back to Basics: How to Run Longer
The long-distance run has a certain allure for a reason. Out there on a ribbon of a road, you're floating along, getting it done, finding strength and insight in mile after mile. At the end, your legs carry that pleasant [...]
Back to Basics: Six Steps for All Running Injuries
By Christy Diller, PT While there are miles of articles that dig into stress fractures and plantar fasciitis and the details of specific running injuries, we want to zoom out and lay out the basic steps you should consider [...]