By the MRG Podcast Team Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! NEW! Join the Michigan Runner Girl Patreon community to support the show AND receive special perks and exclusive content. “I kind of just hit this poi ..read more

Blue-gray pebbles and plump sand to the left. Cool, lapping waves to my right. A few steps farther, driftwood criss-crosses my path. I lift my shuffling feet off the ground to jump over the obstacle, glancing backward to my running partner, Pam, after landing on the wet slope. “I’m good if you are,” she says, letting me know I can push onward, ahead of a couple of runners going at a slighter slower pace. I veer left, off the hard-packed portion of beach and onto dry sand to leapfrog one runner, then another. Pam is close at my back. We remain single-file with a handful of other runners—this st ..read more

By the MRG Podcast Team Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! NEW! Join the Michigan Runner Girl Patreon community to support the show AND receive special perks and exclusive content. Fall ziplining along Lake Mic ..read more

While we all love exploring our beautiful state parks throughout summer, the crispness and color of fall makes for an amazing time to stay at one of Michigan’s 103 state forest campgrounds (a total of 13,496 park campsites!). And, if you happen to want internet connection so you can work and play during your travels, a growing number of state parks offer WiFi. (We all love — and need — to unplug, but sometimes a little connectivity is nice, right?) Whether you’re looking to pitch a tent or use your pop-up camper, or you prefer staying in a yurt, cabin, even a teepee, our state park campgrounds ..read more

When I started running, in my early-30s and with a small group of new friends who’d been running far longer than me, we ran early. We all had little kids—Alex, my youngest, was not quite one, nursing, and still waking up a couple times a night—so meeting at 5:15 a.m. was how we squeezed in exercise before work and caring for our families became our focus. I set out my running clothes the night before and under starry skies tip-toed out the front door, careful not to wake my sleeping family. Three of us lived in the same neighborhood a few miles outside town and we took turns driving bleary-ey ..read more

Above photo of Heart Hero Aimee Bingham Osinski, courtesy Epic Races By the MRG Podcast Team Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! NEW! Join the Michigan Runner Girl Patreon community to support the show AND receive sp ..read more

By the MRG Podcast Team Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! NEW! Join the Michigan Runner Girl Patreon community to support the show AND receive special perks and exclusive content. – Amelia Sherry “When my relation ..read more

By the MRG Podcast Team Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! The Michigan Runner Girl show returns from its mid-summer break with Heather and her 22-year-old daughter Emma at Emma’s new apartment in Grand Rapids, Mich. talking about ..read more

By the MRG Team This year’s Festival of Races — a half marathon, 15K, 10K, and 5K — that are part of the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City returns two weeks from today. This summer race tradition is one of our absolute favorite running/walking events. We caught up with race organizer Alex Zelinski, director of corporate partnerships with the Festival Foundation, to hear about this year’s race distances that take place Saturday, July 9, the second Saturday of the weeklong festival kicking off on July 2. How are things shaping up for this year’s Festival of Races? With just two weeks to ..read more

Listen to this episode of the Michigan Runner Girl Show by clicking on the player at the top of this post, or listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, such as Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and others. We also love to hear from you — please leave a review, or drop us a note and let us know what you think about this episode and what else you’d like to hear on the show! “My work, my passion is helping women lose unwanted weight, but from the inside out — by changing their eating behaviors from a place of deep satisfaction and pleasure, instead of focusing on d ..read more