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I’m so over training for this 5K! I’m burnt out on track repeats and tempo runs — well, not tempo runs. I’ve always sort of liked tempo runs — and…

Why I believe in active rest days: “Exercise guidelines from the American Heart Association and other groups recommend that, for health purposes, people accumulate 10,000 steps or more a day,…

I noticed a little nausea in the pool on Wednesday morning, but I just thought it was because I was swimming hard. The workout, from Run Less Run Faster: 50…

A show of hands, please: Who thinks running on the treadmill is boring? (Okay, put your hand down, I can’t actually see you.) But what is a runner to do?…

I stink. Yep, after I run, I stink pretty bad. I’ve tried several sports detergents to get the smell out of my running clothes, but nothing has worked as good…

Moms get stretched in all kinds of directions, don’t they? For the sake of this article, I’m going to use moms as the example, but we all know this applies…

I met Zoe (Run, Zoe, Run) at the track Monday in the middle of the day because it was President’s Day. And wouldn’t you know it, the gates were locked. It was all…

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do our workouts whenever we wanted? And in perfect conditions? And wouldn’t it be nice if money grew on trees? I was sitting…

Motherhood, running, working, being a wife — they all pull me in different directions. Life is pretty good when I can balance it all. But I can only keep so…

Yesterday’s Run Less Run Faster track workout was…well…it defies words. Except that wouldn’t make for a good blog post, so… I had to do 6×800-meter repeats with a goal time…