You may be wondering why I’m talking the time to tell you about podcasts. Podcasts are actually a great tool for moms. I find that I can squeeze in a podcast at lots of different times throughout my mom day: At the grocery store by myself (rare I know!) While waiting at dance or… Read More My Top 5 Favorite Podcasts
You may be wondering why I’m talking the time to tell you about podcasts. Podcasts are actually a great tool for moms. I find that I can squeeze in a podcast at lots of different times throughout my mom day: At the grocery store by myself (rare I know!) While waiting at dance or… Read More My Top 5 Favorite Podcasts
In this, this holiday season brimming with parties, cookie swaps, and your 17th trip to Target just this week alone, it’s nice to be able to simply pause, and reflect on Love. The love shared by a mother for her child. The love shared by a mother with running, walking, daydreaming, and hoping. I’d… Read More Heart Strides- Running For Love, With Love
It’s been 46 days since I’ve run. Forty-six days ago I hurt myself while training for a half marathon. I was devastated. I read up on running injuries and followed all the advice – I iced, I took ibuprofen, I stretched, I rested, you name it. After a torturous week of… Read More Searching for Peace Amidst Despair
*Photo Courtesy of one of my awesome CTWM mother runners* When I was pregnant, and concerned about losing all of the newly acquired baby weight, my Mom assured me that it would just come off after I had the baby- and then, “Oh, you’ll be chasing after your kids, it’ll just come right off!” I… Read More Getting My Steps In
After having my sons I started running with the sole intention of losing the baby weight. Since then I’ve had a love/hate relationship with running. I ran a few 5Ks this spring and felt pretty good about myself, but then something inside of me changed and I started to question, “If I can run 3.1 miles, could… Read More Down. Discouraged. Disappointed.
One day in February I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, and happened to see a tweet from Another Mother Runner, the brainchild of Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea, two badass runner moms. They have written three books focused on mother runners, and have built a dynamic empire of runner moms everywhere. In a… Read More Mom Dates
When I was pregnant with my first child, Jake, I ran a few 5Ks, including a very slippery and icy 5K walk the day before I had him. I like to kid that I walked him out. My homegirl, Tara, who was also pregnant at the time, accompanied me on that three mile trek through… Read More Running a Half Marathon With My Kids
If there is one thing I have learned from the senseless and incomprehensible events that unfolded at this year’s Boston Marathon, it is this- Runners are resilient. Runners help other runners. In the face of great tragedy and trauma, runners run on to let the world know that they are unstoppable. That no matter what you do,… Read More Another Mother Runner- Running for Boston
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