Exercising Outside Reminds Me I’m Alive
Slices of sunlight slip through the ombré gray sky over the pond. There are a surprising number of people fishing along the banks. As I wade into the water, I have to give a wide berth to a few [...]
How I Work It Out: Heather W.
For this monthly feature, we’ve asked women from around the country to share a week in their lives, letting us know how they fit in their workouts. (Here’s Rebecca from March.) Because we all know we can learn tips, [...]
Advice for Running in the Rain
April showers may indeed bring May flowers...but they also make for soggy runs. While you might be able to opt for a treadmill run instead, we suggest you head outside to experience the elements. Living in the Pacific Northwest, [...]
How I Work It Out: Rebecca
Today’s How I Work It Out comes from Rebecca Stetzer, a 38-year-old living in Trempealeau, Wisconsin. She works as a registered dietitian, specializing in treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating, and has a full house, which she loves. [...]
How I Work It Out: Heather
As part of our new recurring column (here’s the first installment), let’s pull back the curtain to see how another woman fits movement into her busy life. Heather Peter is a high school English Language Arts teacher, and the [...]
Supercharge Your Chance of Success
Today's post is an excerpt from Believe Training Journal (10th Anniversary Edition) by Lauren Fleshman and Roisin McGettingan-Dumas. Copyright © 2025 VeloPress. Reprinted with permission from VeloPress. New York, NY. All rights reserved. Set process goals, not just outcome [...]
When’s Your Next Race? Here’s My Answer
Even before Dimity and I started Another Mother Runner (15 years ago next month!!), I’d break into a sweat when someone asked me, “When’s your next race?” I barely ever ran races in my 20s and 30s. I can [...]
Avoiding Burnout: How Runners Can Stay Healthy and Motivated
By Dr. Kate Mhevc Edwards PT, DPT, OCS. A presenter at our 2020 retreat, Kate is the founder of Precision Performance & Physical Therapy in Atlanta. A 13-time marathon finisher, Kate is also the founder of the RUNsource app, [...]
In Running, Age Is Just a Number
Tish Hamilton, an Another Mother Runner podcast co-host and frequent contributor to our site, is a veteran of 50+ marathons and the mother of a college-age daughter. Her most recent post was a race report from the marathon she ran [...]
Why I Ran: Lessons My Kids Didn’t Notice but I’ll Never Forget
While my adult-ish kids were home for the holidays, we reminisced about the usual topics: hilarious debacles of all the years we cut down our Christmas tree, goals for 2025, and the odds of the Minnesota Vikings making it [...]