How many miles--and crunches--are too many? Around AMR, we have the occasional What Would Another Mother Runner Do? series, a collection of questions for collective input that are both serious (skipping a marathon you've trained for because [...]
What makes a good run a really great run? Getting in the zone. We asked our Role Mothers (you may remember we intro'd them in this post and this post) to reveal the running essentials that help them get there, [...]
The week of AMR's global domination continues with more Role Mothers! The introduced more team members on Monday, the first three Role Mothers yesterday, and we present the final three below. They round out a wide-ranging group of female runners [...]
This week is all about new team members, new goals, and new projects. Yesterday we introduced two new AMR team members (myself being one of them, ahem), and today we're unveiling our Role Mothers. During this year-long project, you'll get [...]
While we don’t judge, Dimity and I are always slightly aghast when we meet a mother runner who tells us she ran a marathon or completed a long training run without taking in any calories. We’ve run long and [...]
If you’re like me—Dimity—when you come to a significant hill on your route you: 1. Curse, either out loud or in your head. then 2. Resign yourself to the fact you have to get over the sucker, so you crank [...]
Since many of us have to run either before the sun raises its head for the day or after it’s gone to bed, here’s a refresher course on how to make yourself as visible as possible to drivers. (Drivers, it [...]
My dear father, like all parents, likes to brag about his children. He often tells anyone who will listen, “My daughter Sarah is the foremost female expert on athletic shoes.” Okaaaaaay, so my dad tends to hyperbole, but I was [...]
Let us be blunt: Dealing with stomach issues while running can be the shits. Literally. Yet it’s a fact of life that, for many runners, tummy troubles can cause a bevy of issues, from pain to diarrhea. Here at [...]
My—Sarah's—best running friend, Molly, crushed her first marathon, literally cracking jokes at Mile 20 and smiling much of the route. But the prior year, before she had to drop out of marathon training due to a knee injury, she admitted [...]
