Skipping a run on the first 2 days of your period doesn’t count as skipping a run if you go for a walk instead.

If your periods are terrible like mine, running can actually cause hemorrhaging, & the pain is often severe enough to make just standing up difficult. So, if I’m able to walk those days for the same amount of time as I would have been working out, that’s really more of a feat than running would have been on a normal day.

Omg this is my favorite hot take of all of them

Running slightly downhill is better than running slightly uphill, but running up a steep hill is better than running down a steep hill.

In high school, I ran until vomiting most days, just to make it to the middle of the pack. I weighed the same as everyone else, ate the same as everyone else, and trained the same as everyone else, but I just barely broke a 7 minute mile. I won’t say that x accomplishment is impossible based on genetics for most people, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot easier for some than others.

I ran in a cotton flannel and a regular yesterday & it did not slow me down. Obviously I wasn’t going to run in jeans, but I feel like most clothes can be running clothes as long as the fit & movement is there.

I’m just starting out again with running in my late 20s (did cross-country in high school) and I only live an hour from Richmond. While I doubt I’ll ever get that fast since even when I was young my mile PR when I was 6:58, this post gives me something to aspire to!

Today I ran 1.5 miles at an 11:38 pace, walked .3, then ran another mile at a 12:15 pace, but I’m gonna congratulate myself for that given that it’s only my third run since getting back to it (and the central Virginia hills can get mean).