I swear it was New Year’s Eve just yesterday, and my entire family was doe-eyed and dreamy over snow days and hot cocoa. Fast-forward to today—we are out of cocoa, and the weather is as fickle as a Kardashian manicure. [...]
We're thrilled to give you a peek inside How She Did It, a brand-new running book you'll want to add to your bookshelf and file under M for Motivation. How She Did It is a compilation of stories from [...]
I inadvertently hit pause on my running. I ran the Essentia Health Fargo marathon in late September. Like a responsible runner, I took two weeks of rest. I know many runners whose rest weeks look surprisingly like an easy week [...]
I got to venture into the land of FTP—functional threshold power—again last week. Careful readers might remember that I struggled with FTP tests last spring. (I should qualify that: careful readers who haven't been in a the middle of a [...]
It is said the native people in arctic have a thousand words for snow. It is also said that that is a load of frozen bull manure. But it feels like is should be true. You’d come up with a [...]
Losing control... Even before the world went sideways in March, 2020 felt hard. I was burned out from continuously chasing times and distances; I had a young kid who wasn’t what you’d call a superfan of sleep; things were happening [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Staggered start at Eau Claire, WI Bridge to Bridge 10-miler. I’ll be frank. I did not start off the racing season feeling gratitude for much. Returning to in-person races post Covid-19 seems a bit surreal. I definitely lost [...]
I'm now up to Brooks Ghost 14s and have never looked back. (Also: see if you can find the sneaky corgi in this picture.) Before I became a runner, I didn't give much thought to the shoes on [...]
