When a lot of your friends are food and fitness bloggers, or gahhh healthy living bloggers, it’s easy to feel a little like the black sheep for not spending more…

Why is it that when you’re in a bad mood, people love to tell you to smile?! Something about that makes me angry and prone to punching, but that my…

It’s time once again for another episode of funny runner moments. This is my ongoing reminder that what we’re doing just isn’t that serious and taking a moment to laugh…

If we weren’t runners, I swear we might be meteorologists. Running in bad weather seems to be one of our favorite things to do…I mean those Instagram photos are worth…

Racing is inherently a solo activity. Only you can control your speed, your mind and your pain threshold. Sure, sure you’re surrounded by thousands of other spandex clad runners, but…

There are a lot of things we can guarantee runners say, like “am I dead yet?” “are we there yet?” and “that wasn’t me“. But I bet there are a…

It’s easy to get swept up in the excitement of finish line emotions, those triumphant photos with our medals or even the fierce grit of having pushed ourselves to the…

What is the best race swag you’ve ever received? Very few runners say it was their race shirt, with the exception of those races we worked so dang hard for…

Do you often describe yourself as a slow runner? Do you then judge your runs based on all those Instagram posts? Here's what you need to know.

Running pretty much makes you better at life. I have no statistics to back that up, but I’m quite certain it’s true based on the amount of time we spend…

Have you seen the shirt “this is a lot of work for a free banana“? It cracks me up every single time. Then I started to ponder it, as one…

We talk a lot about the pure satisfaction of crossing a finish line and knowing you’ve achieved something you once thought beyond reach. We see the big smiles of #medalmonday…

It’s the early morning moment we all dread, stepping in to a dark start line porta-potty, breath held and praying for the best. Will there be toilet paper? Will it…

Shoes on. Laced up. Door locked. Watch on. Start running. That’s all it takes right? Well it’s probably all that it should take, but I quickly found in 2002 after…

Wiping the stinging sweat from my eyes, I sucked in as much oxygen as possible to join the rest of the group in celebrating the end of our run. Already…

In part one I gave you 50 ideas from hilarious to motivational, but I’m hearing that you need more because everyone is stealing your ideas…so um here are some more…

Running is a mental sport, which means some days we have to play some mind games with ourselves. Other days we have to play mind games with our non-running friends…

Say what you want about not out running a bad diet, for a slice of pizza I’ll do my best! We are definitely not foodies in this house. I’m fine…

The eyes downcast. A slight shrug of the shoulders. “Ahh I’m just really lucky it came together.” My standard response when someone looks at me with wide wondering eyes at…

Ever feel like your friends my be tuning out the details of your recent epic long run, which hello involved passing a random lost shoe, slipping on some ice and…

It’s always fun to look back with longing at days gone by and imagine it as rosy, less complicated by technology, easier to connect with your community and all the…

You’re not too slow. You are a real runner. You don’t need the fancy watch. You do need the fancy shoes. If I could wind back the clock, look my…

I’ve made two repeated mistakes over the last 15 years of racing…. I don’t bother to read the course description at all. Leaving me with a stomach in knots the…

You’ve made it to race day. No surprises there, you woke up 322 times to watch the blinking red dots on your clock and ensure you didn’t over sleep. Of…