Meet Sarah’s Ragnar Relay Team!
As I have learned at numerous Mother Runner parties, Dimity is a tough act to follow. (She gets to open with the biggest laugh-line when we read from Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - [...]
Five Marathoner Super Foods
Pasta, my popular go-to super food made hundreds of different ways Bacon - a super food only because it's a super big hit with the taste buds Recently, Daphne, my 7-year-old daughter, asked me to name [...]
2fer: Vancouver Marathon Race Report + GU HumpDay Giveaway
Note: This is a crazy-long race report! If you are only interested in entering to win 24 (!!) packets of GU energy gel, scroll to the bottom. Otherwise, buckle your seatbelt and hang on. Seven of these carb-rich gels [...]
What Would Another Mother Runner Do?
Sarah and Daphne when there were smiles along the mile. In this recurring feature, we've met Christy, who faced the dilemma of running midday in her work bra--or none at all; we've followed Kelin after she slipped on [...]
Turns Out, Mother Runners *Can* Have Their Cake
We wanted to end this week with something sweet and joyful, something to remind you of all that is good in the world. In a word: cake. Not any cake, but this beauty, which was made by Deborah Halliday Mills, [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: How to Pee on a Run
What To Do When You're Nowhere Near a Restroom Anyone who has read the final chapter of Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity knows I have a big bladder--and that I [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: How To Party with Another Mother Runner
A neat half-dozen mother runners. You may have seen the pics on our Facebook page of the 10 house parties—a bunch of our tribe getting together for drinks, nibbles, laughs, motivation, race stories, great giveaways and amazing swag bags—we co-hosted in [...]
Too Late to Avert the Physical Cliff
The fam and I enjoying a week away from reality--and running--in Mexico. Forget the fiscal cliff; last month, I went over the physical cliff. I careened from a place of no aches, pains, or ailments to having not [...]
Why I Run: Sarah Bowen Shea + Friends
Two of the big "reasons" why I run: Molly (blue) and Kristin (purple) I run for myriad reasons—to feel alive, to test my limits, to be outside, to listen to music without kids talking over it, to get [...]
A Mother Runner Who Longs to Be a Mother Gardener
Dimity and me this summer perched in my front yard. Note the splayed daffodil stems, untrimmed hedges, and abundance of weeds. Roses bloom in Portland no matter how much they get ignored. While I bear more than a [...]