Dry Martini: Dry Heaves
I was all set to tell you about how different two long runs can be; then the above email showed up in my inbox and I had to go breathe into a paper bag until I could type again. Note [...]
Mother Runner SBS Training for a Fast 10K
Despite it being surprisingly chilly (the mid-50s) for mid-June here in Portland, my BRF, Molly, and I have sweat flying off our foreheads as we rip off the second of eight strides. We’ve already covered six miles this Friday morning, [...]
Ask Yourself: What’s Your Ultimate Running Motivation?
Throughout the year, we've relied on our Role Mothers for advice, tips, support on everything from training logs to nutrition, so it's only natural we ask them...why? Why do they run? What's their ultimate running motivation? Check out their answers [...]
Melissa’s Heart Rate Training Update: A Lesson in Delayed Gratification
Role Mother (and marathoner) Melissa is trying out the Half-Marathon Heart Rate Challenge and documenting it along the way. Here, she talks about the first two weeks. (Check out her intro post and her two-week check-in, full of run/walk/skip/stop/bend over [...]
Melissa’s Heart Rate Training Update (It Involves Run/Walk/Skip/Stop/Bend Over Combos)
Role Mother (and marathoner) Melissa is trying out the Half-Marathon Heart Rate Challenge and documenting it along the way. Here, she talks about the first two weeks. (Check out her intro post here.) The first two weeks of HRT are [...]
Role Mothers Talk: the Importance of Running Logs
There's the running of the miles and the logging of the miles. For some, the latter is just as crucial as the former. It's how you see performance, improvement, weak spots, and reflect on the work. Here, our Role Mothers [...]
Follow 3 AMR Runners as They Prepare for the 2016 Boston Marathon
10 Runners. 26 Days. Follow Their Journey. Find Your Finish Line. That's the intro to FindYourFinishLine.Hylands.com, which debuts today. You may recognize Hyland's from its Leg Cramps products (as well as a slew of other natural and homeopathic offerings) but [...]
Boston Marathon Training Run in TrackTown USA
“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 [...]
Heart Rate Training: My First + Second Pace Test
The only picture I took the night of the test. It was either too dark or I was breathing too hard to shoot another one. Note the goose poop all over the track: nice touch. Before I [...]
Get To Know Three More Role Mothers
The week of AMR's global domination continues with more Role Mothers! The introduced more team members on Monday, the first three Role Mothers yesterday, and we present the final three below. They round out a wide-ranging group of female runners [...]