Need Help Setting Your Next Running Goal? Answer These 8 Questions

Congratulations! You did it! You accomplished your running goal! So…now what? Whether you trained for a formal running goal (finishing a 5K race, for example), or set out to run 30 minutes without a walk break, the wave of elation that washes over you can make you feel invincible. In fact, you may feel so [...]

FitLinks: Trail Running Tips, The Danger of Sugar & More!

Feeling ready to hit the trails? Reach your goals? Kick the sugar habit? All of that and more in today’s FitLinks! It’s like a virtual high-five for all of your awesome feats! —LifeKraze Fab motivation tips to get you moving when you don’t feel like it—and, hey, who’s that?! —Glamour This will make you think twice [...]

Nothing Makes You Appreciate Nature Like a Trail Run

  I’m a firm believer in the fact that nobody knows their town the way runners do. Sure, if you cycle or drive around, you’ll get a good lay of the land, but as a runner, I get to take trails that cut through areas that you’d never even know were there. I run through [...]

The Rules of the Run

I rarely run alone these days. I have a weekly group run on Thursdays (which always ends with a beer or two), and I have several friends who join me on my long runs on the weekends. And, perhaps most exciting of all, my husband has started joining me on most of my shorter runs [...]