Our very own Sarah Bowen Shea is serving as an expert on Find Your Finish Line, Hyland's daily lead up to the 2016 Boston Marathon. She was recently featured on the site, explaining how she found her way to the [...]
“If only the walls could talk.” That’s what Molly, Lane (Molly’s 20-year-old daughter), and I thought on Saturday when our Airbnb host in Eugene, Oregon, told us running greats Ryan and Sara Hall had stayed in the very same cottage [...]
Sarah Bowen-Shea of "Another Mother Runner" getting interviewed for "The Money JAR" If you're looking for more chitchat to keep you company on your next long run--or laundry-folding session--take a listen to this interview with our own Sarah [...]
Sarah's essay about aging and running speed originally appeared in Tales from Another Mother Runner. She wrote the essay in the summer of 2014; she went on to qualify for the Boston Marathon in a time of 3:56:54 that fall. We're running [...]
Cruisin' to the finish line... Before Sunday, I hadn’t toed a starting line since November 23, 2014. That breaks down to 448 days, nearly 15 months. So maybe it was good my best running friend, Molly, [...]
Fitting strength training into a training plan can be a balancing act. (Oh, I crack myself up!) Week two of Boston Marathon training is going well. My coach is going easy on my "affected" ankle so the [...]
Yesterday, Molly (left), her oldest daughter, Lane, and I powered through eight miles in glorious sunshine--and Saucony Bullet bottoms. One week ago today, I kicked off Boston Marathon training--and it was an inauspicious start. I'm hoping Day 1 of training [...]
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 far [...]
Happy Monday! A retro post as we head into Thanksgiving week. On Monday, Dimity listed her top 10 (I suspect we both have far more than 10!); here's mine. It gets me outside and interacting with nature. I am happiest [...]
Who knew lying around could have such wonderful "consequences?" You know your back pain is bad when...you ask your physical therapist, whom you're seeing to rehab a fractured-in-four-places ankle, to help you with your back instead of your [...]
