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Running with the Flow: Tailoring Training to Your Menstrual Cycle
Running with the Flow: Tailoring Training to Your Menstrual Cycle

Better understanding how to approach your menstruation cycle and how each can affect fitness performance can help you maximize your training, and how you feel about it, when you’re on your period.

Late Registration: Navigating Last-Minute Race Entries Like a Pro
Late Registration: Navigating Last-Minute Race Entries Like a Pro

Whether you missed the official lottery or decided to join the race party fashionably late, here's your guide to securing a race bib when time is of the essence.

RUNGRL Celebrates Six Years During the 2024 London Marathon
RUNGRL Celebrates Six Years During the 2024 London Marathon

This year, RUNGRL is commemorating our 6th anniversary by taking on the 2024 TCS London marathon. Our 6 founders are heading across the pond to join some of the world’s most amazing runners for a good time—and a long run. 

Choosing Your Next Big Race: How to Select the Right One for You
Choosing Your Next Big Race: How to Select the Right One for You

Selecting a race that fits for your unique running style, ability, and interests, can help you not only make it to the finish line, but support an amazing experience to look back on once you’re done. Use these tips to help decide which race is right for your next running challenge.

Running Strong: Planning Your 2024 Race Training
Running Strong: Planning Your 2024 Race Training

Use these tips to guide you through getting started with the planning part of race prep and creating an increased running schedule for the upcoming running season that will be not only successful at the finish line, but enjoyable along the way.

Love Your Pace: Learning to Embrace Your Unique Running Journey
Love Your Pace: Learning to Embrace Your Unique Running Journey

If, like most runners, you’d like to improve your pace (a little or a lot), there’s always space to love where you are right now. Join us on a journey of self-love and learn to embrace the beauty of your pace–in this moment.

Running with Your Heart: Connecting Emotionally to Your Miles
Running with Your Heart: Connecting Emotionally to Your Miles

If you’re having a hard time learning to love running, perhaps it’s time you learned to let it love you, instead. Get into these revelations on how an emotional connection transforms each run into a deeply enriching experience.

Embrace the Chill: A Guide to Winter Running
Embrace the Chill: A Guide to Winter Running

These valuable tips can help with acclimating to winter running, ensuring the colder months become an exciting extension of your running calendar.

Staying Motivated: Overcoming Winter Workout Slumps
Staying Motivated: Overcoming Winter Workout Slumps

It can feel natural to fall into a slump when the weather changes, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Use these tips to help fight the dreaded winter workout slump and keep running through colder months.

Speed Up Your Running Game with These Basketball Drills
Speed Up Your Running Game with These Basketball Drills

Just in time for hoop season, learn how basketball drills can help you enhance your speed, agility and overall athleticism as a runner. 

Health + Wellness

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Beyond the Finish Line: Navigating Nutrition for the Everyday Runner
Beyond the Finish Line: Navigating Nutrition for the Everyday Runner

What considerations should there be in nutrition planning if you just, well, like to run on a regular basis? Explore how a tailored approach to nutrition that harmonizes with the regular beat of your running routine, can help you meet your fueling needs as a consistent runner.

Embrace the Renewal: How Distance Runners Thrive in the Spring Equinox
Embrace the Renewal: How Distance Runners Thrive in the Spring Equinox

Spring Equinox is upon us, and that’s a beautiful thing for runners. From longer daylight hours to the blossoming scenery distance runners are primed and ready for a season of renewal and revitalization.

Managing Your Menstrual: Period Wellness for Black Women Runners
Managing Your Menstrual: Period Wellness for Black Women Runners

Exploring menstrual wellness can offer insights into how your cycle affects your training, provide tips for scheduling your runs around your period, and learn to tame that monthly menace known as your period, as part of your running wellness. 

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Revitalize Your Run: Spring Cleaning for Runners
Revitalize Your Run: Spring Cleaning for Runners

We’re sharing tips to infuse new life into your runs via a spring running deep clean. Get ready to declutter, organize, and make room for new running triumphs and a revitalized mindset!

Love on the Run: Sharing Your Running Passion with Your Partner
Love on the Run: Sharing Your Running Passion with Your Partner

Running isn't just a solo pursuit; it's a love language. And if you've found a passion for running it’s only natural that you may want to share that joy with your partner. We’ve got a few ways to help you bring a loved one along on your journey.

Running on a Budget: Achieve Your Fitness Goals Without Breaking the Bank
Running on a Budget: Achieve Your Fitness Goals Without Breaking the Bank

From finding affordable gear options to saving on race registration fees, all it takes is a bit of resourcefulness and inside info to get set up for a wellness-focused lifestyle without a ton of spending. 

Community

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Heart + Sole: A Love Letter to Running
Heart + Sole: A Love Letter to Running

We're celebrating our love for running, and showcasing the love it gives us in return. We’ve tapped some of our RUNGRL friends to share stories of their experiences with running and how they’ve each grown to love it. Each story builds on the connection we feel as runners from our hearts to the soles of our feet. 

2024 Miami Marathon Pop-Up: Pre-Covery by RUNGRL x HOKA 
2024 Miami Marathon Pop-Up: Pre-Covery by RUNGRL x HOKA 

In celebration of the 2024 Miami Marathon weekend, RUNGRL partnered with HOKA to present a dynamic pre-race activation we called Pre-Covery on Jan. 27. See some of our favorite moments.

Start Some Movement with RUNGRL
Start Some Movement with RUNGRL

We’re starting a movement to MOVE. All month long, we’re encouraging RUNGRLs to #StartSomeMovement by inviting fellow Black women and other members of their community to join them in movement. We’ve always been trendsetters. This month, let’s set the trend of movement, together.

 
 

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