It’s entirely too easy for people to criticize their own performance, and harder to be kind to themselves when they don’t have the race or run they’d hoped for. As the saying goes, we’re our own worst ...
You might shrug off a lot of quotes as cliche or trite, but the truth is that good motivational running quotes can change your run. It shifts the mindset and gives you a new way to look at your ...
With a grunt I bent down, grabbed the heavy box from the packing straps, and dragged it from my garage to the backyard. After box-cutting my way to the parts, I spread them out across my lawn in the ...
Many runners enjoy the aspect of community while running. Sharing success, joy and even pain unites people through every stride. Together, we're simply able to to help endure physical and mental ...
There’s still a shadow cast over everything we do (and can’t do) right now, amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Running is supposed to be a cure-all, but these unprecedented, trying times—now deep ...
I arrived at boarding school on an unbearably humid day in September of 1989, my curiosity about everything I would experience during my years there an untamed fireball. The school required ...
Despite warm weather and sunshine during the day, it was dark and cold when I finally got out for a run one evening last week. Bundling up against a chill wind, I was beginning to think, as some of ...
We each come to running for our own reasons. For me, it was at age 24, when I had a summer job in Seattle and was looking for the best way to get fit to climb the 14,000-foot volcano that beckoned ...
Contrary to popular belief, running training actually involves starting off slow, buying the right (hello, stylish) gym gear and socialising. Sign. Us. Up. If your idea of going for a run is the ...