How Another Mother Runner Does GU Running Gel My can't-run-long-without companions. 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 [...]
Molly and me with more pep in our step at about Mile 22 of 2011 Portland Marathon. Brightly sunny with just a hint of coolness in the air, Saturday was a perfect summer day for running. I set [...]
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 [...]
This is getting closer and closer. And Saturday it becomes pretty real. So I've been training for 7.5 months for Ironman Coeur d'Alene, and, for various reasons—injury + schedule mostly—have only raced a 5K. Huh. That will change [...]
"After an awesome run along the Huron River." We're in the homestretch of our Virtual 5K training, and this week we check in with mother runner Kafi, who talks about what she's learned about herself after running on [...]
Mandi and Aimee, savoring some post-workout bliss together. This week we check in with Aimee and Mandi, BRFs training alongside each other. The pair has realized just how much they need each other, as well as the amazing [...]
Fast forward 9 weeks from now, and it'll be 3:33 p.m. on June 23 in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. I will have been in motion for 8 hours and 33 minutes, and I will, fingers crossed, be on the run. I [...]
Keli and Erin snap a pic post-run as they continue to train for AMR Virtual 5K Keli and Erin, running buddies living in different time zones, update us on the struggles of overcoming injuries, fighting road blocks of [...]
Week 5 of training found Kafi running a Chicago 5K with her family. In this week's update, mother runner Kafi, who is training solo, acknowledges she's been thinking about what it would be like to have a "real-life" [...]
Aimee's new colorful kicks! Mandi and Aimee, mother runners training together for the AMR Virtual 5K, acknowledged the past two weeks weren’t the easiest training-wise. “My life has been crazy the past two weeks and we’ve been having [...]
