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1 week ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan |Erica Coviello
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. I was at my friend's birthday party when her brother, Ty, entered the room. My friend grabbed my arm, "Oh, Ali!" she said. "I almost forgot to tell you! Ty is running a marathon!"Because I write about running for a living, this happens all the time.
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2 weeks ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. In our gear-obsessed world, it’s easy to fall prey to purchasing the latest of everything. But we all have that one piece of running gear that lasts for what feels like our entire running lives.
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1 month ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. The 129th Boston Marathon is set for Monday, April 21, 2025, marking one of the most iconic days of distance running all year.
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1 month ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. A few days ago, a package addressed to my husband arrived. He was pumped. “Nice,” he said. “My grounding sheets!” I figured he’d once again fallen for an Instagram ad for a new alternative health product.
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1 month ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. “I’m in pain, but I still want to run.” If you’ve run long enough, this probably sounds like you. Chances are, you’ve dealt with pain when running. You’ve likely run through heel pain, knee pain, shin splints, and that weird clicking in your hip.
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1 month ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. For decades, scientists believed that muscle fiber typology was mostly set at birth—some people were built for speed, others for endurance.
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2 months ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. If you’re new to running, you might not be fluent in all the running terms yet—and that’s OK. To be completely honest, we’re a group of nerds who’ve made an entire cultural identity and funny-sounding vocabulary based on our experiences with chafed nipples and emergency porta-potty stops.
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2 months ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. I’ve been dealing with plantar fasciitis pain for two years—it’s the kind of injury that’s annoying enough to disrupt daily life, but not bad enough to stop you from training if you’re willful enough.
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2 months ago | 
run.outsideonline.com | Ali Nolan
Ali Nolan is the author of Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women, which offers a holistic approach to training for long distances. She is a four-time marathoner and a dozen-time half marathoner who is passionate about fitness and movement at all speeds and in every form. When not running, you’ll find her hiking Utah’s trails with her humungous dog, practicing yoga, spending hours on the tennis court, or recovering on the couch with her two elderly cats.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
triathlete.com | Ali Nolan
We’ve all seen it, whether in other runners or in our own race photos: the high hip, knocked knees, a sort of bobbing gait that looks inefficient and downright uncomfortable. To the untrained eye, it might merely seem like an awkward running form. Who hasn’t dealt with that? But Kendell Jno-Finn, DPT and owner of M3 endeavors in Trussville, Alabama, recognizes these movement patterns as red flags and knows it may be a sign of poor hip strength.
