AMR Trains: Pre-Race Meals
Listen to this episode if you need some tips on what to eat in the crucial hours just before a big race: The host duo dishes on the dos and don’ts of pre-race [...]
On Pace: Heart warrior Brandi Dockett shares her story
After being diagnosed with a serious heart condition, mother runner and Many Happy Miles strength coach Brandi Dockett has been living with a pacemaker since 2014. Here, she shares how she’s thriving—and why she's more grateful than ever. –as told [...]
2021 Highlights: PRs and Fast Times
As 2021 draws to a close, we can say with certainty this year has been a marathon, not a sprint. We wanted to take the month of December to look back at the milestones, miles, and memories that shaped the [...]
Why I Need (+ Signed up for) Joy to the Run
My trail-running shoes, up on a shelf, not sure when I'll use them again. Every fall we set our clocks back, and every year I track the date on the calendar with impending dread. As the end of [...]
TLAM Takeaways: Tips from Mother Runners Following the Own It & Finish It Training Plans
Wise words to remember when training for a race. Though I’m about to run my fourth marathon—one week from this Saturday!—and I’ve run a good number of shorter race distances throughout the past seven years, this latest training [...]
Ready For It: Taking on the TLAM 26.2 Own It Plan
I'd say this is true for my mind, too. “I don’t know how you do it—run long distance,” a friend’s husband says to me as we’re about to leave a holiday dinner at their house. “I just can't [...]
Training Like a Husband of a Mother Runner
An ecstatic SBS+ Tom after both of them owned a marathon in the Twin Cities. Another mother runner's husband, Tom Karp, jumped into a bright orange book and on the mother runner train as he stared down the [...]
Tell Me Tuesday: How to Get Started Running + 5K Finish It Plan!
A tweet came across the Twitterverse today: Hi Dimity, love the FB page & the podcasts are on over dinner prep! I'm a complete newbie, any chance of a post with hints? So happy to help: the more mother runners [...]
A Tale of Two Runs
I look happy because, at last, I had reached my parents' house! I just finished up Week 7 of the Marathon: Own It plan from Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and [...]
Another Mother Runner Challenge!
Feel free to drag and drop this baby anywhere you want in social media land. Pin it, tweet it, facebook it, blog it. Thanks in advance. On June 1st, we’re launching what we hope will be the first [...]