Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of the congrats on my Wineglass PR! A few weeks after the fact, I’m no longer on Cloud 9 about reaching my long-reached-for-but-never-achieved sub-2:30 goal. I’m still on an adjacent cloud, like [...]
Do you have a half-marathon on your calendar? On your bucket list? Maybe the Cape Cod Half, with the upcoming BAMR retreat? Since you’re here, the answer is almost certainly YES. The half-marathon is our “favorite” race distance, according to [...]
All smiles after a stomach bug came and went. [[Follow #motherrunner Pam as she trains for her first marathon in early February 2019.]] Y’all: I was even more excited than usual about this week’s training (no, seriously, I LOVE [...]
Meet Pam Harris, or BAMRPAMR, who is going to chronicle her first marathon journey over the next few months. The memory of my middle school gym teacher yelling, “My GRANDMOTHER could run a mile faster than you, Greyson!” [...]
Your comments are one of the best parts of writing this column. Thanks to all y’all for sharing your own belly thoughts, even if they aren’t specifically about your belly. Even BAMRs struggle with body image and it’s always reassuring [...]
Driving is my Mom Superpower: to swim practice, to camp, to work, to Taylor Swift concert! Photo taken BEFORE the rain and wind. Thirty minutes. Forty minutes, tops. This summer, early morning drives to drop my daughter [...]
True confession: I ran this morning so I’d have something to write in my training log. Do you keep a training journal? Or some other kind of record of your running, cross-training (cough), foam-rolling (cough-cough)? Probably you do: 81 percent [...]
Red Rocks: Site of many stairs and many red rocks. SO grateful to live near here, even if the Avett Brothers didn't do a three-night show every July. Turns out, you can't train for a rim-to-rim hike in [...]
Best port-a-potty view ever. End of discussion. This past weekend was supposed to be about Grand Canyon training, about getting miles at elevation, about climbing and descending. And it kind of was. Back up: As you may know, [...]
Despite how it may seem (hello, sunny 55-degree day in Denver today!), February—the longest, shortest month—still has a ways to go. As does the whole season of winter. Which means that many of you are spending some time on the [...]
