Runners: Are You Carb Loading the Right Way?

Proper pre-race meals mean more than just an overload of empty carbs. Learn valuable tips to ensure you're carb-loading effectively for peak performance at your next big marathon or race.

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After the Medal: Post-race Recovery Tips From Real Runners

When race day is over and the excitement is done, how do you recover and transition back into a regular running routine? We talked to real RUNGRLs about how they recovered from their most recent distance races, and how they kept their love of running going after the big day.

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GRLs Who Race: Ladies of The Speed Project 2019

RUNGRL co-founder Dominique Burton spoke with veteran runners Marjorie Jean-Louis and Victoria Sanchez who represented melanin magic this year while taking on a crazy, 340-mile ultra-relay from L.A. to Las Vegas called The Speed Project.

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Your Running Journey Will Never Be Perfect—and That’s Okay

Even those of us with the best intentions can find ourselves falling off during race training. Be it fatigue, injury, or loss of motivation, it happens. Ebony Davis explains how she overcame setbacks while training for her first half marathon.

GRLs Who Race: Perri Smith Tackles the Berlin Marathon

In this installment of #GRLsWhoRace, Perri Smith found that a personal mantra around being present in the moment helped her conquer her mounting worries about her second marathon.

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#AskCoachAsh Episode 005: Race-day Strategy

In Episode 005 of the #AskCoachAsh IG Live, co-founders Ashlee and Natalie sat down to discuss Race-day Strategy. Learn they’re favorite tips and important do’s and don’ts for success on the big day. Catch the recap here.

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GRLs Who Race: Iesha Pankey and the London Marathon

Balancing a demanding work schedule and a busy social life while managing an autoimmune disorder can be challenging enough, but Iesha Pankey decided to tackle all this while training for her first marathon. Find out what she learned through this challenging and rewarding process.

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GRLs Who Race: Black Women Runners to Inspire Your Next Big Race

From elite running legends to hometown heroes, we’re celebrating the running trailblazers who inspire us in our new series, ‘GRLS Who Race’.

How Discipline Builds Confidence in Race Training

Shelby Hall is preparing to run her very first marathon next month. Read how she’s used discipline as a key component of her marathon training for the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon.

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Five Things We Learned from Our First International Race

RUNGRL co-founders Stephani Franklin and Jasmine Nesi ran their first international race together at the 2018 Berlin Marathon. Read what they loved and what they learned from their experience.

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Makeup on Race Day: The Boost I Didn't Know I Needed

I’d always felt that the race course was not the right place for makeup. That was until I saw my race pictures.

Running #ForTheCulture: Dannielle McNeilly

Dannielle McNeilly ‘aspires to inspire’ her fellow Black women and young girls to run as she makes her mark on the world of distance running. “If someone else can be motivated to do it because of me, that’s what matters.”

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Twelve Weeks of Wins: RUNGRL Training Program Highlights

Twelve weeks of hard work, sweat and sisterhood ended in hugs and hardware as our National Women’s Half Marathon training program participants raced for their goal on Sunday in Washington, D.C.

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