the Mother Runner

I decided to wear the anti-mom outfit on Mother’s Day. You know, the kind with the super cute skirt that restricts my stride just enough to make it slightly annoying – but completely bearable because, well, it’s super cute. And the heels that I can walk well enough in, but only because I brought another [...]

My water bottle has been a little bit of a lifesaver this week. Not for it’s helpfulness in keeping me hydrated, of course, but for it’s cylindrical shape and it’s hardness. Stainless steal is the way to go, I believe, when the foam roller just isn’t cutting it any more. Who needs a rolling pin [...]

“There’s nothing worse than a weak-butted runner.” Nothing. A weak-butted runner is the worst. Or so I’m told by the man who hosts the workout video Micah and I dragged ourselves out of bed for at 6:00am on a Monday morning to participate in. And after 20 or so minutes of jumpsquats, plyometric lunges, rotating [...]

And we’re down to the last week of training. This time next week I’ll be posting a recap of the race, going over things that went well and things that maybe did not go so well. I hope there are fewer of the latter than the former. I didn’t run a lot last week. The [...]

Ah. Last week before the taper. I knew it had to be a good one. The trick was my knee, which, as you may recall, has been a little stiff. I think it’s my IT band, and I think this happens every time I train for a big race. I’m not super worried about it, [...]

The Boston Marathon is less than 3 weeks away. It’s practically within spitting distance. Last weekend I got a pack in mail with all the race info, including my starting wave and corral. And I’m at the point in training where I’m trying to balance pushing myself so I’m in the best shape I can [...]

After a week off from the flu, I’m crawling my way back to training for this beast of a marathon that is less than a month away. To be honest, I’m starting to get a little nervous. I feel like I missed a key week. I know that physically, one week doesn’t mean I’m going [...]

The flu is not conducive to training for a marathon. Or any race, for that matter. I am sure there are people who do it. I am also almost sure that those who do are those who actually have a chance of winning the race and the prize money that goes along with it. In [...]

Have you ever heard of Yasso 800s? This is a speed workout designed/discovered by Bart Yasso, the CRO (chief running officer) at Runner’s World magazine. What you do is you run 800 meter intervals. You run them at a pretty hard pace. You time them. And you translate your time from minutes and seconds to [...]

For the past few years I’ve been wishing I could be one of those people. Those people who seem to effortlessly wake up early and put their miles in before the day begins, who don’t have to think about whether they should set the alarm or not, for whom running was such an integral part [...]