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How To Break Through Common Roadblocks With Running

Running is as much about your mental capacity as it is your physical capabilities. It's possible to overcome the mental roadblocks with the right strategies, enough practice, and a little self-belief, you can conquer them.

How to Measure Your Progress in Running: When Starting (or Starting Back Up)

What benchmarks will help you track your progress toward your goal.

How to Get Motivated to Run (Even When You Don’t Feel Like It)

These tips will help you get motivated, even when you don’t feel like it.

How To Get Your Goals Back On Track

Next time you get off track, try practicing this strategy.

The Runkeeper Definitive Guide for Beginner Runners

Back in your playground days, everyone was a runner. But sometime between your last game of tag and your first desk job, you may have lost that magic. Maybe it happened during that mandatory mile run in the fifth grade. Or maybe it was when you got to college and embraced your new NARP status (that’s Non-Athletic […]

Van Support: How I Reached The Beach

Reach The Beach is a relay race that stretches over 200 miles from the Mountains of New Hampshire to the state’s coastal shores, and tests the physical, as well as mental fortitude of 12 teammates. It’s a race that will not only change your perspective on running, but life in general. I’m a stubborn runner. […]

390 Pounds Down, and I’m Training for My First Marathon

Since I lost 390 pounds, I have been training for a marathon. This has been a goal of mine for over two years now. I never ran a mile in my life until I turned 32. Even when I was a kid, I couldn’t run a mile in gym class—I was always the last one […]

4 Things a Smart Scale Can Tell You About Body Weight

At Runkeeper, we’re all about using data to gain valuable insights into our fitness journey. And because of that, we’re slightly obsessed with all things Withings. That’s why we partnered with them once again to bring you the #ActiveBody challenge, which is inspired by their full composition smart scale. You may be wondering, what exactly […]

Getting Started With Weight Loss: The How, When & Where

Raise your hand if you’ve attempted a diet. Okay, keep your hand up if you’ve also had some degree of success with that diet. Now keep your hand up if those diets continue to be successful today… I’ll wait. Odds are the majority of you have put your hand down, and that’s because most ‘diets’ […]

Running Down My Two Biggest Fears At The Boston Marathon

Everyone has their own story about why they run. My story begins with fear. When I was in eighth grade, both of my grandmothers died of cancer within two months of each other. Last year, my wonderful cousin died of melanoma, at the age of twenty-two. The thought of losing anyone else I love to […]

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