It's finally real fall here--the kind of fall we are accustomed to. Not that our recent conditions were fake fall, but all that color, b...

It's been a really busy week! But so much fun. After a great weekend up at the lake, this weekend was Brooks Hype Fest in downtown Chica...

I won't sugarcoat it--the weather was just miserable this week. Except for Sunday, the wind, rain, cold, and yes, snow, was relentless. ...

My idea of fun is certainly different from most people's!  I love running and I love trail running the most. Getting muddy doesn't b...

My anxiety level was high this week and it wasn't just due to my impending half marathon.  There was last week's sad news that  my y...

I've been reading a lot of posts about goals, 'word of the year', 'ins and outs', and resolutions. I think most of you k...

On and off the road, this was a tough week.  The cold virus that took me down last weekend slowly improved. I was pretty fatigued early in t...

Disclaimer: As a member of the Brooks Run Happy Team, I received a complimentary pair of the Brooks Ghost Max in exchange for social shares...

No, not that road. I'm still sidelined from running, nursing my sore foot. But as you read this, I'm in Alabama with Holly, spending...

After what was an incredibly fun but also incredibly active weekend, I promised myself no running this week. That was not a hard promise to ...

I woke up Monday morning feeling tired, achy, and queasy. Was it a bug? Or was it an RA flare? I'm pretty sure that RA was the culprit a...

Shhhhhh..... I know I said in last week's Runfessions post that I wanted to run away but there was nowhere to go. As it turns out, th...

Cue the riff... When I sat down on Friday to flesh out this post, I started writing lyrics to a blues song. " I woke up this morning ...

There are so many challenges right now. Most of them aren't fitness related. Every morning, I wake up feeling down, but running and wor...

Does it feel like this was the longest week ever? Every day seemed to bring some new challenge, be it adjusting to working from home, workin...

“As this epidemic has progressed, we have had to make some hard decisions. To avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives, we ...

Carly Simon sang it back in the 70s. Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins updated it and is forever immortalized on a meme.  I tweaked...

Returning from an escape away is always tough. If only life could be that much fun all the time, right? If only every day could be filled wi...

This year, I've become all about the backup plan. It's hard to let go of what you were, at least for me. I always pictured myself as...

With cooler temperatures come better runs. It's true that those tough hot summer miles do lead to better runs in the fall. I had a fast ...