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Women's Running Stories

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Women's Running Stories features inspiring stories told by exceptional women runners about their running experiences. Hear about the many ways women are achieving excellence and changing their lives through the sport of running. Get motivated to reach your own running goals by women who are making it happen.

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Cherie Turner: Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: Part 4, The Power of Belief

March 25, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes

In this episode, part 4 of this series, Cherie tells the story of her return to formal training and workouts after recovering from an injury. And, back at it, Cherie returned to racing and experienced a frustrating bought of race anxiety. This set Cherie down a path to tackle this difficult barrier and think deeply about what this goal means to her and the importance of believing in abilities. Cherie discusses the strategies she been practicing to overcome race anxiety and big wins she's expe...

Liz Rock: A TrailblazHer's Journey, Running the Boston Marathon for Mile 21 Joy

March 22, 2024 09:39 - 37 minutes

Liz Rock is a marathoner and community leader, focusing on women and diversity: "We [women] are so powerful and I wish we knew that more," she says. "We are powerful and we need to lead with that more often than not." Rock tells her running story with a focus on training for the 2024 Boston Marathon, and her journey is about so much more than putting in the miles. Rock's reasons for running Boston this year, her second Boston Marathon, are deeply embedded in her work as a community leader and...

Race Report: Annie Frisbie + 2024 USATF 15k National Championships

March 15, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes

Minnesota Distance Elite Team member and Puma professional marathoner and long-distance road racer Annie Frisbie shares how it all went down at the 2024 15k National Championships, which took place March 2, 2024, in Jacksonville, FL, at the Gate River Run. Frisbie had a great race at the 15k, for some interesting and special reasons. And she gets into it. And, this episode is a bit of a twofer because what happened at the 15k champs was directly influenced by the previous race on Frisbie's ca...

Rebecca Mehra: Professional Track Racer, On a Season of Inspired Change

March 08, 2024 08:43 - 33 minutes

Professional middle distance track racer Rebecca Mehra shares her professional running story. It's been marked by great success, two years of disappointing hurdles, to now: coming into 2024 healthy and ready, with a new perspective, new coach, and new set of training partners. Rebecca Mehra is a professional middle distance track racer, sponsored by Oiselle. She specializes in the 800 and 1500 meter. For her collegiate career, Mehra raced for the legendary running powerhouse Stanford. A year ...

Kelly Bruno: 2024 Boston Marathon Professional Para-Athlete, A Return to Loving the Run

March 01, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes

Kelly Bruno has been an athlete since she was a child. Because of a birth defect on her right leg, she went through a below-the-knee amputation, and competes with a prosthetic. Competitive sports has played a fundamental role in her life and her development, and throughout, Bruno has been a role model in the para-athlete world, pushing the limits of what's possible. She's here to tell the story. Throughout her long athletic career, Bruno has excelled in distances from 100 meters to 100 miles,...

Kelly Bruno: 2024 Boston Marathon Pro Para-Athlete, On Her Lifelong Athlete Journey

March 01, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes

Kelly Bruno has been an athlete since she was a child. Because of a birth defect on her right leg, she went through a below-the-knee amputation, and competes with a prosthetic. Competitive sports has played a fundamental role in her life and her development, and throughout, Bruno has been a role model in the para-athlete world, pushing the limits of what's possible. She's here to tell the story. Throughout her long athletic career, Bruno has excelled in distances from 100 meters to 100 miles...

Race Report: Emily Durgin + 2024 USATF Olympic Trials Marathon

February 23, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutes

Adidas professional runner Emily Durgin shares how it all went down at the 2024 USATF Olympic Trials Marathon, which took place February 3, 2024, in Orlando, FL. On the line at this race, in addition to a national championship title, cash awards and series points, racers were vying for a spot on Team USA going to the 2024 Paris Olympics. This was the most anticipated US marathon of the last four years, and the competition was deeper and faster than ever. Marathon racing in the US is on fire, ...

Emma Grace Hurley: Life as a Professional Runner, Making Big Moves

February 16, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes

Emma Grace Hurley is an exciting young professional runner, now running for the newly formed all-women's team, the Heartland Track Club. Emma Grace was first featured on WRS in March 2023, in our Race Report episode about the USATF 15k National Championships, which was held on March 6, 2023, at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida. In this episode, get caught up with what's happened since; it's been an exciting time, and you'll hear all about it. That 15k championships was a breakout p...

JayEll Alexander: CEO Black Girls Run, Leading a Movement 258,000 Strong

February 09, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes

Jay Ell Alexander is a runner and the CEO of one of the largest running groups in the United States: Black Girls Run, aka BGR, with 258,000 members. Alexander has been leading BGR for six years now, after working as marketing and PR lead for the previous six years. And she has a very clear understanding of the women she is inspiring and motivating because she is her own target audience. The goal of BGR is to "encourage and motivate Black women to practice a healthy lifestyle." Statistically, ...

Race Report: Katie Camarena + 2024 USATF Cross-Country National Championships

February 02, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutes

Emerging professional runner and new member of Tinman Elite out of Boulder, Colorado, Katie Camarena tells the story of how it all went down from her viewpoint racing in the 2024 USATF Cross-Country National Championships, which took place January 20, 2024, in Richmond, VA. On the line at this race, in addition to a national championship title, cash awards and series points, racers were vying for a spot on Team USA going to the Cross Country World Championships, which will take place March 30...

Michelle Sikes: NCAA Champion, Author of Kenya's Running Women: A History

January 26, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes

Michelle Sikes's story centers around how her collegiate running career is inextricably linked to her first book, Kenya's Running Women: A History, published in December 2023. This is the first academic monograph to focus on the history of any women's sport in Africa. Back when she was in her collegiate years, Sikes became a Rhodes Scholar and the 2007 NCAA outdoor 5K national champion. The story of her surprise win in that race over Sally Kipyego—who was dominating the longer distances that...

Sister Liz Sjoberg: Becoming a Sister on the Run

January 19, 2024 09:05 - 42 minutes

"I don't think I really liked running until maybe two or three years in of actually trying to run. I wouldn't even call myself a runner at that point at all, but just somebody trying to get their life right and trying to have some balance. It really started to open up a new world for me." Sister Liz Sjoberg's running journey started out as an interest and need to improve her health and lose weight, but over the years, it became a strong and steady force in her life. Running became something s...

Anita Cardinal: Don't Stop Unless You Are Proud

January 12, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes

Anita Cardinal is an ultra trail runner, advocate for the indigenous community, race director, and community builder who lives in Northwestern Canada in the beautiful city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In her story, Anita gets into why running has been a powerful force in her life from a very early age, and how the impact of the sport continues to evolve for her. A First Nations woman, Cardinal has a specific focus on empowering and honoring others in the indigenous community. She does this...

Cherie Turner: Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: Part 3, The Reset

January 05, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes

In this episode, part 3 of this series, Cherie shares how a freak non-running injury caused her to take time away from structured workouts and formal training. While the injury was a bummer, in the end, it provided a healthy reset. Cherie shares how the recovery process has gone and why she feels like navigating this period of relative downtime has resulted in her realizing how much she is truly enjoying the process of going after a tough goal. In June of 2023, Women's Running Stories host an...

2023 Reflections: Clips to Take With You Into the New Year

December 29, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutes

For this episode, I chose a variety of clips from 10 episodes published in 2023 that have stuck with me and made an impact. This isn't a "best of" so much as a celebration of the huge variety of experiences and motivations women have in this sport. I hope you'll find something in here to motivate and inspire you, and perhaps spark a new interest for 2024. It's incredible how much this sport brings to so many people and the myriad ways it can show up and change throughout a lifetime. Enjoy! Cl...

Natalie Barlatier: Unwavering Commitment

December 22, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes

Natalie Barlatier has a determination when it comes to her running that is truly remarkable. Barlatier discovered a love of track and field in her youth, but took a break from running when she entered college. She returned to the sport after being diagnosed with MS in her late 20s, and began to explore distance running. Barlatier worked her way up to marathons over time, and running has been an important part of maintaining her health: mental, physical, and emotional. She has continued to run...

Briana Boehmer: A Difficult Decision and the Power of Support

December 15, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes

Briana Boehmer had dreamed about qualifying for an Olympic trials since she was young. But she'd let go of that dream as she moved into her 40s. In her mind, she had aged out. That all changed in 2020. Boehmer's first competitive sport was running, which she did through college. After college, she became a competitive triathlete, eventually working up to racing the Ironman distance, which involves swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles, and then running the distance of a marathon, 26.2 miles. ...

Neely Spence Gracey: Pregnancy, Marathons, Disney Fun, and a Stroller Mile World Record

December 08, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes

Professional distance and marathon runner Neely Spence Gracey has been a competitive runner since she was in her teens and running has been a part of her life since she was born: both of her parents were competitive runners, and her father was an internationally competitive marathoner. In recent years, however, Neely's running focus and motivation has shifted, in large part because she began to balance new priorities. In addition to remaining committed to being an elite level competitor, Neel...

Ari Hendrix: Journey to the Olympic Marathon Trials, a Quest to Top The List

December 01, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes

Elite marathon runner Ari Hendrix did not grow up dreaming of running. Up through college, Hendrix’s athletic heart was firmly focused on the basketball court. But when professional prospects didn’t pan out after her college career ended, Hendrix had to face the harsh fast reality that the sport that had defined her days and shaped her dreams was over.  This is the story of letting go of one dream, and being open to discovering what new, unexpected dreams can arise.  So while Hendrix never co...

Sue McDonald: 9 Times a Masters World Record Holder

November 24, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes

The story behind becoming 2023 USATF Masters Track and Field Athlete of the Year. Masters 60+ track and field athlete Sue McDonald has been a competitive athlete most of her life. And she's been a competitor in a wide variety of events: she'd started out her collegiate career as a heptathlete and has since continued to enjoy working at multiple disciplines, as well as trying new events (like the steeple!). So in 2022, when Sue was looking ahead at entering the 60+ masters age bracket, she did...

Molly Huddle: 2023 NYC Marathon, Postpartum Bone Health, and What Comes Next

November 17, 2023 09:43 - 37 minutes

Top American distance pro runner Molly Huddle tells the story around her 2023 NYC Marathon, her first time racing this distance since having her first child, Josephine, in April 2022. WRS featured Huddle in March of this year, 2023, to tell the story of her postpartum return to racing and how it all went down at the 2023 NYC Half Marathon. Immediately after that, Huddle was diagnosed with a serious injury. In this episode, Huddle catches us up on her injury recovery, why she decided to run th...

Race Report: Rachel Smith + 2023 USATF 5k National Championships

November 10, 2023 08:46 - 25 minutes

Elite runner and Olympian Rachel Smith tells the story of how it all went down from her viewpoint racing in the 2023 USATF 5km National Championships, which took place November 4, 2023, in New York City. This is Smith's first big event back since having her first child, her daughter, Nova, 6 months ago. Smith shares her experiences running through pregnancy, returning to training post-partum, and navigating breastfeeding as an elite level racer. And she shares her total joy of returning to co...

Verna Volker: A Journey of Health and Healing, Culture and Community

November 03, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes

Verna Volker first started running as a way to improve her health. Over time, however, her relationship to the sport has grown and changed, to become a more personal and powerful part of her life. She started out pursuing road marathons and then moved to the trails, stretching her limits in ultra trail running. As her journey has evolved, so have her motivations. This is a story about how Volker has shaped her running journey to best serve her, her family, and her community. Volker is from th...

Cherie Turner: The Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: Part 2, Learning to Train Well

October 27, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes

In June of this summer, 2023, Women's Running Stories host and producer Cherie Turner closed the chapter on running longer distance races (at least for now), like marathons and ultras, and turned her attention to the 5k. Her goal: break 20 minutes in the 5km. Cherie is currently 54 years old and she has never dipped under 20 minutes at this distance. The closest she's ever gotten was back over a decade ago, when she ran 20:19. This is Part 2 of Cherie's journey, an update that spans September...

Jennifer Maxwell: Running to Her Own Beat

October 20, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes

Jennifer Maxwell is best known as the co-founder of PowerBar with her late husband, Brian Maxwell. Not only did the couple found a hugely successful company, they created the energy bar sector. Before PowerBar, which launched in 1986, there were no energy bars. These days, Jennifer continues to reinvent in the energy bar space with the launch of JAMBAR. While Jennifer's passion for running certainly played into her interests in creating an energy bar company, her life as a runner started long...

Race Report: Jeralyn Poe + 2023 USATF 10k National Championships

October 13, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes

Elite runner and PhD student Jeralyn Poe tells the story of how it all went down from her viewpoint racing in the 2023 USATF 10km National Championships, which took place September 23, 2023, in Northport, NY, at the Great Cow Harbor 10km.  Poe is in a relatively new phase of her racing journey, having finished her collegiate career just a couple years ago. Specifically, over the past two years, she's gone from the collegiate level of racing to the pro/elite field, and she's switched from trac...

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: On a Quest to Reach Her Red Line

October 06, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys understands what pushing through, putting one foot in front of the other in the face of great pain and on the edge of breaking feels like. She's been doing it her whole life. But it wasn't until she discovered the world of ultra trail running that she truly understood how deeply empowered this had made her. She's now on a quest to discover just how far she can push her boundaries, for herself and for others: to represent and inspire. This is the story of how Pace-Humphr...

Claire Bartholic: Finding Her Pace, the Story of a Sub-3 Hour Marathon

September 29, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes

Claire Bartholic shares how she went from being a first-time marathoner trying for, but not quite reaching, a goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon, to running a sub-3-hour marathon: for context, only 1% of women marathoners have achieved this sub-3-hour milestone. It all started when Bartholic was in her mid-30s looking to get in shape for a high school reunion. It was then that she decided to start running. Then she got the running bug, and started marathoning: she was 38, the mother of t...

Carolyn Su: Her First Trail Adventures, Why Representation Matters

September 22, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes

Carolyn Su is a runner and the founder of Diverse We Run, a space to build racial diversity and amplify diverse voices and stories in running on Instagram. Until 2020, Su was a road runner. She hadn't run on the trails, let alone race. And when she documented her friend's experiences at the 2019 Trans Rockies, a multi-day trail running stage race, she thought it looked amazing, but it didn't even occur to her that this was something she'd be capable of. But then, on one fateful day, she got a...

Race Report: Tristin Van Ord + 2023 USATF 20km National Championships

September 15, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes

Professional runner for Team ZAP Endurance Tristin Van Ord tells the story of how it all went down from her viewpoint racing in the 2023 USATF 20km National Championships, which just took place September 4 in New Haven, CT.  This 2023 season has been full of success as well as learning experiences for Van Ord. She started the year running her fastest marathon ever—she set a PB by over two minutes—placing first American and fourth woman at the Houston Marathon in January. Going into the summer...

Cherie Turner: The Over 50, Sub 20, 5k Project: Part 1, Setting the Baseline

September 08, 2023 04:00 - 34 minutes

At 53 years old, Women's Running Stories host Cherie Turner has found a whole new focus for her running pursuits: she's working toward breaking 20 minutes in the 5km. This is the first phase of the journey, setting a baseline 5k time. In this episode Cherie shares how she got to this point, how the lessons she's learned throughout her many years of running are starting to reap benefits she's never felt before, and how she's as excited as ever to push her limits as an athlete. She briefly trac...

Celeste Yvonne: Outrunning Mommy Wine Culture

September 01, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes

Early in her life, Celeste Yvonne had decided she wasn't a runner. She felt like she didn't look like a runner or have a runner's mindset. Furthermore, running didn't feel good. Enter, her first child, who was colicky; Celeste struggled mightily to get him to calm down. In an act of exhausted desperation, she tried jogging. And, it worked. As someone who always enjoyed working out, this also filled the need for Celeste to incorporate meaningful movement into her new life as a mom. While Celes...

Ruby Wyles: A Disordered Eating Healing Journey, with Lindsey Cortes, Rise Up Nutrition

August 25, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes

Ruby Wyles is an elite level runner and athlete who has worked through significant health challenges. She is currently pursuing the exciting new world of multisport, as a triathlete. From an early age, Wyles experienced serious challenges with disordered eating. While her health was stabilized, Wyles' fraught relationship with body image and food wasn't completely healed, especially when it came to the mental health facet of that process. Over time, Wyles, who is British, also found a passion...

Cherie Louise Turner + 2023 Comrades Marathon: Experiencing the Magic, Again and Better

August 18, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes

Women's Running Stories host and producer Cherie Turner tells the story of her return to the 56-mile Comrades Marathon in South Africa. This is Cherie's second running of this, the world's oldest and largest ultra distance race in the world. And this for running, she had the goal of running better, both physically and mentally: she wanted to finish in under 10 hours (in 2022, she ran it in 10:25) and with a more positive, less fearful mindset. She wanted to fully soak in the magic of this one...

Jasmine Santiago: Finding Her Voice, Living Out Loud

August 11, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes

Jasmine Santiago is a runner and podcaster: she's the host of Brown Girl Running, where she shares her own running story and interviews other BIPOC runners about their experiences. Santiago is one of the few BIPOC women to host a running podcast. But getting to this point has been a journey, with very steep ups and downs. In this episode, Santiago shares it all: the breaking point of trauma fueled addiction, finding running as a way to heal and discover her authentic voice, discovering the be...

Race Report: Kassie Parker + 2023 USATF 7-Mile National Championships

August 04, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes

Kassie Parker just finished one of the most successful NCAA DIII careers on record. On the indoor and outdoor track and in cross country, racing for Loras College, she set records, helped her team reach its first national title, and won numerous national titles herself. Parker graduated in May 2023 and immediately moved into her pro career. She ran her first post-collegiate pro-elite race at the USATF 6km National Championships, earning a solid eighth place. Then, she set her sights on the Bi...

Race Report: Sgt. Ednah Kurgat + 2023 USATF 6km National Championships

July 28, 2023 07:07 - 20 minutes

Sgt. Ednah Kurgat tells how it all went down at the recent USATF 6km National Championships in Canton, OH, July 15. Krugat runs as a member of the US Army's WCAP (World Class Athlete Program) and has primarily focused on cross-country and distance track racing, with a particular focus on the 10,000-meter. In January 2023, she won the USATF Cross-Country National Championships; this earned Kurgat her first spot on an international team, representing the US at the Cross Country World Championsh...

Liz Derstine: Her Appalachian Trail FKT Story, a Journey of Self Discovery

July 21, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour

Liz Derstine is a musician, runner, writer, and as of 2020, a long-distance hiker. On July 7, 2020, she embarked on the life-altering adventure of through-hiking the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail, as quickly as possible. Now, having had several years to reflect on this epic journey, Derstine tells her whole AT story: from what inspired her to want to hike the entirety of this daunting trail, to how it all went down, through to the many ways her life has changed as a result of transporting hers...

BONUS: Hear Her Sports: Jenny Nguyen and the Sports Bra

July 14, 2023 12:13 - 1 hour

This is a special bonus episode swap with the excellent woman hosted, women's sports podcast Hear Her Sports. Every other Thursday, Hear Her Sports host Elizabeth Emery brings you long-form interviews with women athletes and women in the sports world. Elizabeth is an excellent interviewer and her conversations are always engaging and informative. I love the way she brings listeners into the world of the person she's talking to, bringing out the reasons they're so passionate about their pursui...

Sika Henry + Comrades Marathon: An Experience Like No Other

July 07, 2023 15:23 - 33 minutes

Sika Henry is a professional triathlete, as well as a marathon and ultra runner. She is the first African American woman to earn her pro card in triathlon, which she did in 2021. And, in 2020, she ran a sub-3-hour marathon which added her name to The List, which accounts for all of the American-born Black women who have broken 3 hours in the marathon. There are currently 30 women on The List. Sika is relatively new to the world of ultra running, and once she'd gotten a taste of the sport, she...

Christine Yu: Her Book, Up to Speed, Inspired by Life as an Athlete

June 30, 2023 08:03 - 37 minutes

Christine Yu is a lifelong athlete and a runner, though it took time before she used either of those terms to identify herself. Yu is also a writer, and she focuses on the intersection of sports science and women athletes. These dual passions recently culminated in the much anticipated book Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes. This is ultimately the focus of Yu's story for this episode: where her personal athletic and running journey and her professional writing pursuits...

Race Report: Nell Rojas + 2023 USATF 25k National Championships

May 31, 2023 09:08 - 31 minutes

Nell Rojas is one of the best marathon racers in the U.S. having placed top American at both the 2021 and 2022 Boston Marathon. In this episode she shares how it all went down at the 2023 USATF 25k National Championships, which took place just one month after the 2023 Boston Marathon. But of course, there's so much more to the story than just one race. The 25k race, as it would turn out, was not the day that Nell had hoped it could be. The story behind that stretches back to Nell's build up t...

Vanessa Fraser: 100 x 1-Mile SF Women's WR Relay Attempt, en Route to Forging Her Own Pro Running Path

May 25, 2023 08:14 - 45 minutes

Professional runner Vanessa Fraser has raced at the highest levels of her sport, but then found herself in a prolonged phase where things just weren't clicking. So she decided to switch things up–a lot. Which is why Vanessa, along with her coach Shalane Flanagan, decided to put the 100 x 1-mile Nike San Francisco Women's Miler Club World Record Relay attempt on her racing calendar. The event takes place June 3, 2023. Discover how Vanessa got here, and why choosing to run a huge community even...

Race Report: Alexina Teubel + 2023 USATF One-Mile National Championships

May 09, 2023 17:13 - 26 minutes

After a month's long hiatus in 2022 due to a sacral stress fracture—the first major injury of her long running career—Alexina, Alex, Teubel is back and racing better than ever. Teubel has focused on the 3000-meter steeplechase for several years, earning her way into the 2021 Olympic Trails finals. But now she's refocusing on the 1500 and its close cousin, the mile. The USATF One-Mile Road National Championship was Teubel's 2023 season opener and revealed that the 29-year-old pro runner and ru...

Nicole Pinto: Returning to Racing Post-Partum (Part 2/2)

April 28, 2023 11:35 - 34 minutes

In this, part 2/2, Nicole Pinto shares her running journey from giving birth to completing a half-marathon nine months later. Part 1 of this story features Nicole sharing the journey of how she trained for and ran the Boston Marathon while pregnant with her daughter, who was born in February 2022. We are excited to follow up on Nicole's postpartum journey in this episode. We first featured Nicole as part of our Roads to Boston series and she surprised everyone, including herself, with her pre...

LIVE EVENT: Podium Pioneers Panel, Boston Marathon Expo

April 24, 2023 19:42 - 53 minutes

This is a special live recording of the Podium Pioneers Panel, which took place at the 2023 Boston Marathon Expo live stage. Women's Running Stories host Cherie Turner once again teamed up with Lisa Levins and Julie Sapper of the Run Farther and Faster podcast to co-cost a live Boston Marathon event. This year we welcomed three women who helped form the foundation of marathoning; they have each also placed among the top three at the Boston Marathon. Please enjoy the panel discussion with thes...

Patty Hung: 37 Consecutive Boston Marathons, A New Streak Record

April 11, 2023 14:27 - 21 minutes

Patty Hung, a retired teacher who now works as a pediatric nurse, never set out to run more consecutive Boston Marathons than any other woman. But that's the position she finds herself today. On April 17, 2023, when Patty crosses the finish line at the marathon, she will have completed her 37th consecutive Boston Marathon, more than any other woman in the history of the event. She'll break the record previously set by Andrea Hatch, who last ran the Boston Marathon in 2013. Patty, who was born...

Race Report: Amber Zimmerman + 2023 USATF 10-Mile National Championship

April 07, 2023 23:49 - 27 minutes

In this race report, get the inside story on how the Cherry Blossom 10-mile USATF national championship played out from the perspective of elite amateur racer Amber Zimmerman. Amber, who races for the Tracksmith amateur support program, has been in this sport for a long, long time. But as she herself has said on many occasions, she feels like up through her college career, she was performing at a subpar level. She moved into triathlon for a little while after graduation and has similar feelin...

Dani Moreno: Track, Trail, Boston: A Pro Runner's Lifelong Running Journey

March 29, 2023 09:30 - 59 minutes

Dani Moreno is a professional mountain runner with Adidas Terrex, and she is one of the best in the world. Her specialty has been sub ultra distances, which our distances of a marathon or shorter. A traditional marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.2 kilometers. Among Dani's many outstanding accomplishments, last year she placed 3rd at the highly prestigious 50-kilometer/31-mile OCC; this is part of the UTMB series of events, which are widely considered the equivalent of world championship events give...

Dani Moreno: Track, Trail, Boston, a Pro Runner's Lifelong Love of Running

March 29, 2023 09:30 - 58 minutes

Dani Moreno is a professional mountain runner with Adidas Terrex, and she is one of the best in the world. Her specialty has been sub ultra distances, which our distances of a marathon or shorter. A traditional marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.2 kilometers. Among Dani's many outstanding accomplishments, last year she placed 3rd at the highly prestigious 50-kilometer/31-mile OCC; this is part of the UTMB series of events, which are widely considered the equivalent of world championship events give...

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