Sarah’s Return to Running, Part 3
Here is the third installment of Sarah's road to recovery and her return to running. Read Part 1 and Part 2 to get caught up. Ready for a short run in Rredmond. Age: It’s a blessing and [...]
Sarah’s Road to Recovery, Part 2
This running thing is hard. After some stutter-step starts last fall—then a few more months of walking instead of running—I’ve started to add more rapid movement back into my workout mix (along with swimming, strength training an hour/week, and [...]
Back to Basics: How to Run in the Rain
Living in the Pacific Northwest, you often hear runners reassuring each other, “It’s not like you’ll melt!” So true: Humans are not the Wicked Witch of the West; we don’t melt when we get wet. It only sometimes feels [...]
Our Favorite Things: Albums for Running
I often mull over inane scenarios on my runs. “Which actor would I want to be stranded on a desert island with?” Or, “If I could only vacation in one location for the rest of my life, where would [...]
Sarah’s Road to Recovery, Part 1
I’d never been sidelined from running for so long: eight months and counting. This bulging disks thing was crushing my running buzz like nothing—a twin pregnancy, multiple ankle fractures, plantar fasciitis x 2—ever had. Two cortisone injections in my [...]
A Love Letter from a Mother to Her Running Daughter
I (Sarah) can't believe this post is from 11 (!!) years ago. My younger daughter, Daphne, is heading off to College TBD in the fall. She's evolved into a hard-charging soccer player, an avid singer/guitar player, and "a brilliant [...]
The Gift of Community
Pickleball: Go for the games, stay for the laughs. Honestly, I need to put that phrase on a tee because it’s why I love the game so much. Yes, pickleball feeds my competitive fire, but it’s the between-points jokes [...]
20 Miles is Nothing: How to Mentally Conquer a Long Run
Molly, all thumbs-up and smiles, in the final miles of her debut marathon (with Sideshow Bob, a.k.a. me, by her side for a bit) Let me start by oversharing: The idea for this post came to me [...]
Sarah’s Injury Update + Return to Running
Despite what the tee reads, Sarah was a walker in the 5K. Recently, I realized my time off from running due to bulging discs is my longest running-sabbatical (4.5 months) since I was pregnant with our twins. Who [...]
Our AMR Anniversary: A Dozen Years of Many Happy Miles
Even though, time has been a bit of a blur for the past two —or is it five?—years, we do know that March 2010 marks the anniversary of the launch of Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving and [...]