Author Archives: Laura M. Brenner

Before last week, I didn’t know National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD, for short obviously) was a thing. I missed sharing the appropriate photo(s) to social media (I’ve been in a social funk recently), but I took most of the week to reflect on what I would have posted if I had feltContinue reading “Inspried by Women”

The entire first turn was ice. Runners gingerly stepped across while warming up, not willing to risk a fall or injury. Part of me hoped everyone would opt for a tempo run instead of a track workout; in my head, that would have been easier to accomplish. My daydreams of an “easy workout” were interruptedContinue reading “I can do hard things”

At a staff retreat this week, my boss facilitated an activity to help make us aware of our own biases and stereotypes. On one side of a sheet of paper, we were to list “I am” descriptions – I am a woman, I am a millennial – and on the other side of the page,Continue reading “I am, but I am not”

Running with friends is the best way to start or improve your running. New year, new you. Here’s how. Friends hold us accountable (and not just with our dating lives). Whether we said we want to start a new workout routine – run before work every morning – or we are training for a raceContinue reading “The shortest mile is the shared mile”

How do I define my hobby of running? I’m serious enough that my “casual runner” friends don’t like to run with me because I’m “too fast.” But I don’t have sponsors, a nutrition/strength/running coach, or spend half of my year in Colorado to train. I’m serious-ish. This is a large contingent of runners. To ourContinue reading “On running well, but not too well”