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My favorites from 2020

'Don't make a fault of a virtue'

How's your 100-mile running challenge going?

Exploring the natural world

A quick December update

Tomorrow

Cold Mountain, Flushing Meadows, Utah's Salt Flats + Cathedral Cavern

What's the best piece of running advice you've ever received?

Our December 100-mile running challenge

Canyonlands, Havana, Iceland, Jack Daniels + California's Redwoods

Big Bear, Mount Charleston, Mount Hood, Big Cottonwood + the Rocky Mountains

13.1 Races I'd Love to Run When Covid Is Behind Us

Lake Sammamish, Hoover Dam, Lake Ozark, Emigration Canyon, Angel Island

Your own personal epic

Friday Open Thread: What running adventure(s) do you dream about?

Join our Strava club

Spring Hill, Scottish Highlands, Polar Dash, Skidaway Island + Christmas in Kentucky

How did your run go? (And, what's next?)

5 Oceanfront Half Marathons You Can Run in 2020-21

Details for our virtual race

Friday Open Thread: What are you dreaming about for 2021?

Chattanooga, New Braunfels, Orlando, Gulf Shores, Lake Mead

What Jesse Owens Can Teach Us

Mississippi Gulf Coast, Wachtung Reservation, Baton Rouge, Folly Beach + Natural Bridge Caverns

What We're Running for Friday, Nov. 6

Mystic, Space Coast, Falls of Rough, Fredericksburg, Skydive

What We're Running for Sunday, Nov. 1

Friday Open Thread: Your favorite run of the year (so far)?

Let's all run a 5K a day for the next 6 days, shall we?

Three Sisters, Dinosaur Valley, Secret City, Hialeah, North Augusta

What We're Running for Sunday, Oct. 25

A question about races

6 Scenic Trail Half Marathons With Safe, Socially-Distanced Running This Fall

What Sara Hall has learned about (and from) running

What We're Running for Sunday, Oct. 18

Friday Open Thread: What are you proudest of/grateful for this year?

What We're Running for Thursday, Oct. 15

10 Smaller Half Marathons for the Social Distancing Era

What We're Running for Tuesday, Oct. 13

We're getting there

Friday Open Thread: Ask Rogelio Anything, a live chat with running coach Rogelio Quintanar

A quick update

Tuning in (and out) to yourself on the run

We're running this week: 28 miles

Friday Open Thread: What races are you looking at running now?

Back on track

Changing habits

Finding balance

What We're Running This Week: 28 Miles (Again)

Friday Open Thread: What's inspiring you right now?

What We're Running for Thursday, Sept. 24

When running injury threatens, here's who may have the answers

What We're Running for Tuesday, Sept. 22

What We're Running This Week: 28 Miles

Friday Live Chat: Ask Me Anything with running coach MK Fleming

What We're Running for Thursday, Sept. 17

Running Boston... in Georgia

What We're Running for Tuesday, Sept. 15

What We're Running for Sunday, Sept. 13

What We're Running for Thursday, Sept. 10

How to create running goals to get you through the 'long now'

Welcome new members + Where are you in the world?

Conversations I've loved (and you might have missed)

Friday Open Thread: What are you looking forward to this fall?

What We're Running for Thursday, Sept. 3

Getting through the middle

A personal day

What We're Running This Week: 24 Miles

Laura Hillenbrand on ‘leaving frailty behind’

How 3 runners are finding motivation — even when the race calendar is empty

What We're Running for Tuesday, August 25

Friday Open Thread: How 'normal' are things where you are?

A (quick) personal update

5 things I've learned from my summer of running

What We're Running for Tuesday, August 18

What We're Running for Sunday, August 16

The potential we have inside ourselves

'Everyone will face this'

The truth about running form (and what works for you)

An update on our virtual race

Friday Open Thread: What music should we add to our playlist?

Running and 'The Calling of Voices'

How to Create a Training Plan That Works For You

Checking in + a couple questions

What We're Running for Sunday, August 2

What We're Running for Thursday, July 30

How to start (or re-start) running when you're just not feeling it

What We're Running for Tuesday, July 28

What We're Running for Sunday, July 26

Friday Open Thread: Running Shoes AMA with Hollie

What We're Running for Thursday, July 23

How to light the fire inside

What We're Running for Tuesday, July 21: 5 Miles

What We're Running for Sunday, July 19

Friday Open Thread: Something good that's happened to/for you? 😃

What We're Running for Thursday, July 16

Why you need to give yourself a high five, no matter how your running is going

What We're Running for Tuesday, July 14

Time for a summer break

What We're Running for Tuesday, July 7

What We're Running for Sunday, July 5

What We're Running for Thursday, July 2

5 things Deena Kastor's 'Let Your Mind Run' teaches about how our minds work

What We're Running for Tuesday, June 30

'Running Home' Book Club Discussion #3: Chapters 17-28

What We're Running for Sunday, June 28

Friday Open Thread: What are your running plans & dreams for the rest of the year?

What We're Running for Thursday, June 25

4 Things I've Learned About Running Motivation from James Clear's 'Atomic Habits'

Our Run for Tuesday, June 23

'Running Home' Book Club Discussion #2: Chapters 7-16

Our Run for Sunday, June 21

Friday Open Thread: Training check-in

Our Run for Thursday, June 18

The #1 Thing I've Learned About Mindful Running

We're Running Today: 3 Miles

The Half Marathoner Book Club: 'Running Home' Discussion #1

What We're Running Today: 3 Miles

Friday Open Thread: How fast is 'fast'? How slow is 'slow'?

Our Run for Thursday, June 11: 3 Miles

How to Use Running to Improve Your Mood

What We're Running Today: 3 Miles

Two questions

Friday Get-Together: What are you listening to?

How the Stockdale paradox can help us get through this

Bart Yasso on coming out of a funk + running's bright future (no matter when races come back)

Friday Open Thread: What would you ask a running coach?

The Running Group That's Trying to Make the World a Better Place

Our next book club pick: Katie Arnold's 'Running Home'

No podcast today

☕️ Coffee with Coach Q: Ask Me Anything with Running Coach Rogelio Quintanar

How You Can Run 500 Miles Along the California Coast (Virtually)

'We're given this opportunity to think outside the box': Running Coach Rogelio Quintanar on how to run now

Are you ready to run in public again?

4 Things New Runners Can Learn From Meb Keflezighi

'What do you need to get out of this?' and more questions to ask ourselves, with Running Coach Mary-Katherine Fleming

Friday Open Thread: Supporting our friends with COVID-19 + more

The mental approach that's helping Carissa run through the pandemic

Sarah Canney on creating running challenges, embracing joy + remembering why you started running in the first place

Friday Open Thread: What do you do (when you're not running)?

Will the races we love survive Covid-19?

David & Megan Roche on running and the inevitability of adversity: 'We're all adjusting to this new normal, and you have to get creative'

Friday Open Thread: Where are you in the world?

Sometimes, I just need a timeout. How about you?

Wes Judd on running without races: 'This is not going to be wasted training. It's all hay going into the barn.'

Friday Thread: Social distancing vs. running and racing, and what have you been doing to keep your spirits up?

Why we all need to run 'The Road Not Taken' now

A quick update for our 'Running With Raven' Book Club

'For runners who've been training hard, this is an opportunity to dial it back and slow down'

Friday Open Thread: The best virtual races?

'We have to trust that this is unfolding the way it's supposed to'

There's never been a better time to become a more consistent runner

Friday Open Thread: How is everybody doing?

Virtual races, running streaks + more: What you can do while races take a timeout

Is this the perfect time for a running streak?

'Running With Raven' Book Club Discussion #2

Running is helping millions of us get through this

Keeping running a part of your life during quarantine

'Running With Raven' Book Club Discussion #1

Finding meaning in running when life gets weird

How are you handling 'the new normal'?

Book Club Kickoff: A conversation with 'Running With Raven' author Laura Lee Huttenbach

Why runners need to think about 'social distancing'

A story I've been meaning to tell you

Friday Thread: Our next book club read

What Mary Chapin Carpenter's 'The Hard Way' teaches me about running motivation

What it's like to aim for growth over goals

Friday Thread: Will Coronavirus impact your race/travel plans?

'We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master'

Is balancing running/training with life a challenge for you?

Friday Open Thread: The places you love to run?

How to mentally (and physically) prepare for a trail race

Do you really need a cross-training shoe?

What we’re about (and not)

What podcasts do you love to listen to when you run?

You need to have something to look forward to

The anatomy of your running shoes

What you had to say: Pushing yourself (too hard?)

Friday Open Thread: How do you become a faster runner?

Australia's Great Ocean Road, Michigan's Wine Country, Kimanjo, Falmouth + Peso de Régua

The running shoe you (actually) need

The hard thing about hard things

Book Club: 'Running With Sherman' discussion wrap-up

The lifespan of a running shoe: How to know when it’s time to say goodbye

What you had to say: When the shine of new goals wears off

Friday Thread: What part of the world are you from?

What I do when running gets boring

'Running With Sherman' Book Club Discussion #2

You aren't the only one struggling

Friday Open Thread: What habits do you use to stay motivated?

How I'm training for the New York City Half Marathon

The Half Marathoner Book Club: 'Running With Sherman' Discussion Thread #1

Friday Open Thread: What do you know (or want to know) about running shoes?

Am I giving this all I've got?

Book club kickoff: How we'll read 'Running With Sherman' by Christopher McDougall

Friday Open Thread: Destination races — where do you dream of running, how do you choose?

Here comes the future