For central New York State in early September, it’s a surprisingly warm day, bordering on hot. The sun shines brightly on Whitnall Field at Colgate University, and it’s my first week of my freshman year, 1984. Sweat makes my somewhat-punk, [...]
Sarah with her dear mother, Margaret. Note: I (Sarah) want to share momentous news with members of the AMR community because you all feel like family. My beloved mother died the day before her half-birthday: She would have [...]
by Sarah Bowen Shea My dear father, a man of many mantras, often quoted an Emily Dickinson poem to describe me, “The soul selects her own society.” Once I was old enough to figure out what he meant, I realized [...]
Old Love (Sarah) “What I thought was fire was only the spark.” That song snippet has always spoken to me (it was one of my high school yearbook quotes), and it completely applies to I feel about Topo’s Phantom running shoe now [...]
SBS and her new favorite form of entertainment: witty signs by SBS It’s late January 2020 and I’m driving my then-14-year-old son, John, to high school. Unlike his twin sister, who walks to our neighborhood school, John attends a high [...]
The Russian version of a Seurat painting: study group camarades lounging near the Moscow River It’s one of the few warm and sunny days in Moscow in the summer of 1987. Pale yellow sunlight glints off the skimpy Speedos worn [...]
10 miles: before + after The conditions are dang near perfect for nailing my goal in the penultimate virtual race of our 4-race Love the Run You’re With series: 10 miles in less than 90 minutes. It’s overcast. [...]
I —this is Adrienne —could make my own personal list of Top Ten Memorable AMR Live Moments. But the moment that would take the top spot is the Cape Cod Half in 2018, which I (and some of that year's retreat attendees) ran while a nor'easter raged around [...]
What started in 2005 as a seed for Dimity to preemptively fight postpartum depression—namely, asking her friend Sarah to run a marathon—has flowered into a beautiful garden full of strong, confident, funny, empathetic, sweaty women. We couldn't be more [...]
How cool is our sport? We (mere mortal) runners not only get to participate in the exact same races as our sport's elite, we also get to chat with them, high-five them, and, of course, take pictures with them. [...]
