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 ...

As fall quickly fades into winter, it’s easy to skip a run to stay bundled up on the couch. But taking the winter off can make for a rough spring. In an effort to find motivation to bundle up, we took ...

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 ...

It may be tough to get up and go for a run. But most of the time, you’ll be more pleased and satisfied with yourself if you get up and do it. Think about the reasons you want to run in the first place ...

Between bitterly cold temperatures, the seemingly endless hours of darkness, and the sleet, snow, and slippery roads, running in the winter is not for the meek. Just getting out the door can take a ...

Over the span of my running career I’ve gone from devouring every publication of Runner’s World to reading all the best running books. More are released each year, which means my fun never ends and ...

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 ...

When the first running boom hit the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, it was all about racing. A runner’s daily running was called “training,” and geared toward running fast at the weekly 10k race ...