Join us for the 3rd Annual AfroRunner Virtual Challenge and Race If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself physically and mentally as well as a race, this is a great opportunity for you.  This year we will be piloting a virtual challenge and…

  With running and other aspects of life you have to sometimes trust your gut instincts when making decisions that can affect your happiness. I once went to see a podiatrist to determine the cause of ankle pain I experienced while running and the podiatrist…

In mid 2019, around my birthday, I decided to get a group of friends together in an effort to motivate them to work out and eat healthy. We were not all runners and all came in different shapes and sizes. For 2 months we would…

I love to cheer the NYC marathon and this year I cheered at mile 9 with Amanda Hart @misshart. When getting ready to cheer big races here are  3 tips to make is a great experience: Bring things that runners need.  Often times runners will…

I have been training for the Berlin marathon and some time ago while on a long run I got sick before the run was complete. I actually started feeling sick early in the run. It was a 20-mile run and 2 miles in I wasn’t…

We rode the bus to our track workout at Icahn Stadium. Our coach, Julia Lucas, was a professional runner who was once one of the fastest 5k runners in the US. She takes what she has gained over her years and trains us to be…

Most race training schedules will have you running up to about 75% of the mileage for the race that you are training for.  So you may be training for a marathon on a 16 or 18 week schedule and your last long run the week before…

It was a nice day to run 26.2 miles…   It was a nice day to cheer runners…running 26.2 miles.  I went out to cheer for the NYC Marathon runners.  Some runners were friends, some co-workers, some whom I run and train with weekly.  As I prepared for…

I am so happy to be a finisher! Finishing half marathons and full marathons gives me one of the biggest highs I’ve ever experienced.  Today I finished the Chicago marathon and I felt emotional before the race and shed some tears of happy emotion at…

What’s your best running accessory? My best accessories are my running buddies.  Aside from having a GPS watch, cool and comfy kicks, compression socks, a lucky cap and some sort of energy food I think my run buddies are way better than any accessory that I…

Some days are better than others.  Sometimes I run miles around the track and it’s a piece of cake sometimes its hard to get a quarter in.  I ran the track and didn’t feel well.  I wondered may be it was because I missed the bus to the…

Sometimes it’s too hot to run outside so I get on a treadmill.  Very hot and humid days can be tough because when training for a race we sometimes follow running schedules that require us to do certain workouts, distances and paces.  When you workout your…

When you decide you are running a marathon there are a few things you should do before you start to get ready for training.  Here are 5 things you should consider before your start your marathon training: 1.     Find out your best long run shoe.  It’s best to…

As we train for races runners tend to decrease distance and lesson workouts a week or a few weeks before race day.  This is part of the taper down process.  Try to figure out the best taper down process for your needs and one that goes with…

Sometimes we are stuck following the same routing when we exercise.  We may have a route that we run and we just run the same route every time we run or we may have a series that we do each time we go to the gym…

I never thought track would help me to improve my time when training for a race.   I would run on streets, in parks and some trails but never on the track.  I have learned that the track is a great way to meet some of your running…

One of the workouts I used to dread was hill repeats or hill sprints.  Any run that required running up and down hills would send chills down my spine.  I learned that the more I ran hills the more I reduced my fear of hills.  It also helps…