Scores of confident and healthy 8-to-12-year-old girls will be taking over the Negative Split 5K in April thanks to the nonprofit organization Girls on the Run. The 10-week afterschool program has ...

Nikki Mercer has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master of science in family and consumer sciences. The rural Champaign native took up running at age 26 when she decided she needed a new ...

“I don’t understand how people enjoy running in cool weather. My nose starts running as soon as it hits below 60 outside and it sucks.” Those are my own words, which I wrote on Strava on October 27 ...

BATTLE CREEK - Smiling, giggling and running. All were of equal importance as 500-plus girls from almost 30 different schools came together for another edition of Girls On The Run Saturday. For the ...

It was 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday and the eye of Hurricane Sandy had stalled somewhere above our home. Toilet paper and milk had been wiped from all the grocery store shelves in a hundred-mile radius.

My very first run ever was on the levee along the banks of the Mississippi River in a little town just outside of New Orleans. I was five years old, and I remember the damp warmth of the Louisiana air ...