At 8:00 a.m. today, I was still in bed, thinking about the race I was registered to run, The Run to Feed the Hungry 10k, which kicked off at...

As a newish runner, I have found the concepts of running by feel and effort-based training to be pretty straight forward, but the actual pra...

At the start of each new training cycle, I give my coach a list of races that I want to do and she works them into my schedule. Because the...

While I’ve been in recovery mode these last couple of weeks, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the question of why it’s so hard for (so...

Today was like Christmas or my birthday because I received my new training plan from my coach. It is a 21-week doozie that begins with abou...

The good news about today's adventure at the Clarksburg Half Marathon race is that I clinched third place in the 2009 Buzz Oates age-gra...

This week, I was sequestered at a science writing workshop at the Bodega Marine Lab with 20+ of my geeky science colleagues from The Nature...