Group Writing Project: What Movies Inspire You to Run?

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I thought I’d try something fun today and challenge you to join me writing on a subject. If this goes over well, perhaps we’ll do it on a regular basis. The question is: What [...]

Why I Run

We all have our reasons for running. We want fitness and speed and PRs and time alone and lots of other things. Some of us are super serious and competitive and some of us are just starting out and haven’t really committed to reasons yet and some of us are just working to [...]

Setting Goals in Running

It’s a big run weekend with lots of runs posted to the CRN Race calendar.
Everyone goes into a race with some sort of goal in mind—everything from “qualify for the Boston Marathon” to “finish” to “have fun.” Sometimes we reach our goals and sometimes we don’t and sometimes we accomplish something that wasn’t [...]

Running Through Adversity

We runners are a hardy bunch. We push ourselves to exhaustion. We sometimes break bones and scrape skin seeking out stressful situations to see just how far we can push ourselves. Sometimes we do all this while overcoming some immense obstacles.
If you’re San Luis Obispo, Calif., pulmonologist Tom Vendegna, 43, you run to reverse a [...]

Better Know an African*

The sport of distance-running is undoubtedly dominated by East Africans. Women and men from countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Morocco have indelibly and literally altered the face of the sport. Paradoxically, despite their astounding success, African runners perform in virtual anonymity. This article marks the start of a series of articles, titled Better [...]

Quote of the Week

Today, it’s a two-fer!
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
—Mark Twain
You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
—Ken Kesey

Video of the Week: California Dreamin’

Watching this clip makes me want to hop in the car, drive down to the Monterey Bay and just run.

(The Team in Training South Bay Run Team from Los Gatos, California.)

YouTube Video: Dean Karnazes

Today I give you a video of my bud Dean Karnazes.

Dean is by no means the only guy in the country who suffers from a certain version of lunacy that compels him to run in 100+ mile increments but he’s the only one I’ve met personally. For 2006 his shtick was to run 50 [...]

Video Inspiration: Female Runner With A Message All Of Us Can Relate To

More often than not, the videos I show here on Saturdays feature male runners. This is not by design. In fact, I often find it difficult to find videos featuring female runners.
But today, I found an amazing little gem that brought me close to tears. The video features a young woman with the universal message [...]

Running Thoughts …

What do YOU think about when you are running?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t listen to music when I run alone so I end up either talking to myself or thinking. Running sure allows for time to do some great thinking and planning of my life. So I guess the question to ask [...]

Streakers!

A recent article by Mark right here on CompleteRunning.com got me to thinking about what it means to be a consistent runner. Those thoughts and a short excerpt in Runners World led me to this site: the United States Running Streak Association, Inc., which allows membership only to runners who have logged at least [...]

Charity-o-Rama!

From time to time here at Complete Running headquarters we get asked to promote one thing or another. We (read: I) usually say no, because promoting things can be tricky business—although if you want to advertise with us, we’re all ears!.
But just recently someone wanted to promote his fundraising efforts. We didn’t want to say [...]

Photos of the Week: N (ice) Run

Here are some photos of Whitemud Creek (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) in the winter. The creek freezes over and is quite safe to run on after a few weeks of cold weather. These ice trails are shared by runners, cross country skiers, snowshoe enthusiasts and hikers. During good conditions the footing is similar to [...]

New Year’s Day: A Blogger Shows Us We’re All Capable of the Extraordinary

Beansprout is one of us. She’s a runner with average running talent.
But what she’s about to accomplish today is definitely not average. No. It’s much more than that. Through goal setting, determination and her passion for running, today, Beansprout will reach a milestone that deserves everyone’s attention.
As I write this article, I eagerly await Beansprout’s [...]

Reflections on Running

It’s the holiday season, and like most people at this time of year, a bit of reflection is in order. So here goes my 2 cents worth of introspection and reflection.
Hi! I’m Lee and I’m a runner. Yes I’m addicted, and I’m not going to give it up!
This is a (mostly) harmless addiction [...]

If You Had Only One Race in You …

I’m prone to deep thinking at precisely the time I can ill afford it: When a major deadline draws near. So on the cusp of completing a big work project, I’m now wondering what it must be like to run a race that you know is your last. This thought comes courtesy of a man [...]

I Am a Runner

Hi, my name’s Bill, and I’m a runner.
I didn’t set out to be a runner, it just sort of happened. I thought, for many years, that I was a cyclist, caught somewhere in the grey space between man and machine, somehow transcending both to become some sort of cool, mech-human hybrid riding off into the [...]

Via YouTube: Terry Fox

If you don’t know the story of Terry Fox, you should.
The night before his leg was amputated, Terry Fox read about an amputee who ran the New York City Marathon. The article inspired Terry’s Marathon of Hope, an incredible cross-Canada run on an artificial leg to raise money for cancer research.
Terry’s story inspired the annual [...]

DNF

There are thousands of anxiety-riddled runners this month signed up for a marathon. Hundreds of them will not make it, to the start or to the finish. Some will become sick and say, “That’s it.” Some will be overwhelmed by conditions or personal turmoil and decide, “There’s just no way.” Still others will limp to [...]

YouTube: More Team Hoyt (Rick and Dick)

Our World’s Strongest Dad post from a few weeks ago continually brings people to CRN so we thought we’d feature two more video clips by this amazing dynamic duo. These two video clips are more documentary in nature than World’s Strongest Dad was. Are you ready to be inspired?
Team Hoyt: An Inspiring Story of [...]

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