Marathon Training: Your Enough Is Enough
Leaning into the power of perspective as I get closer to the start line of the Marine Corps Marathon. This morning, after I returned home from my track workout, my husband, as he often does, asked me [...]
Dry Martini: Sweet September
Some running lessons I can’t seem to learn. Like, you’d think I’d know by now that the hardest part is just getting out of the door. Or that mid-run math is always wrong. Or that 99% of people don’t [...]
The Power of a Dynamic Warm-up
Ready for your running world to be rocked? Let me introduce you to the magic of a dynamic warm-up, like my genius physical therapist, Amy Benton, Chief Clinical Officer at Prime Performance P.T. in Portland, did for me. According [...]
7 Ways to Train Your Brain for Peak Performance
by Amanda Ryan Fear Running is often our escape from the demands of everyday life, our chance for a little peace and quiet amid the chaos. If you’re like me though, it’s anything but quiet inside your head on [...]
Back to Basics: How to Have a Successful Long Run
T.S. Eliot must not have been a marathon runner as he thought April is the cruellest [sic] month. If a runner had written “The Waste Land,” it would assert that August is the toughest time as it often involves running [...]
Our Favorite Things: Cross-Training Activities
There were long chunks of my life when I ran six or seven days a week, which seems unimaginable to my 50-something self! Cross-training (plus daily P.T. exercises) allows me to run three, maybe four, days a week now. [...]
TMI Tuesday: Avoiding Tummy Trouble
Last month on the Another Mother Runner Facebook page, Billy Jo lamented that she’s been “experiencing the runner's trots” on half-marathon training runs. She wrote: “There are times I can barely make it home without feeling like I'm going [...]
I’m Not Bad; I’m a Beginner
You're not bad; you're a beginner “Nick!” I yelled at the end of a frustrating boxing drill late last year, “Why am I so BAD at this??!!” My personal trainer looked me in the eye and said in a [...]
Ask the PT: Shin Splints
Welcome to the second installment of our Ask the P.T. column, in which we will get input and insight from Christy Diller, an Ohio-based physical therapist, mom of four, and track coach. Christy definitely knows her stuff, but a [...]
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 [...]