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 ...

You might shrug off a lot of quotes as cliche or trite, but the truth is that good motivational running quotes can change your run. It shifts the mindset and gives you a new way to look at your ...

In need of some running motivation? Runners from all across the country told us why they run, and now I'm ready to hit the pavement. Running became my after school hobby—even a 15-minute jog around my ...

Many runners enjoy the aspect of community while running. Sharing success, joy and even pain unites people through every stride. Together, we're simply able to to help endure physical and mental ...

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 ...

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 ...

We each come to running for our own reasons. For me, it was at age 24, when I had a summer job in Seattle and was looking for the best way to get fit to climb the 14,000-foot volcano that beckoned ...