Kimberly Valentine - Running Lifestyle Media (Page 2)

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Business Founders

Be Light Compression Founder April Pullins Shares How Running Ignites Creativity

When April Pullins began running, movement ignited her creativity and sparked the idea to launch Be Light Compression. Now, she’s motivating other women to rediscover their creative sides.

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Business Founders

Why PowerBar Co-founder Jenny Maxwell Returned to the Industry to Create JAMBAR

After decades of raising children, running, music, and navigating grief, Jenny Maxwell, co-founder of the original PowerBar, returned to her kitchen to create a new energy bar.

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Nonprofit Leaders

Women In Ultrarunning Founder Rachel Bambrick Shares the Common Barriers Women Face In Getting Into Ultrarunning

Ultrarunner, running coach, and founder of Women In Ultrarunning, Rachel Bambrick breaks down the reasons women are less likely to run ultras, plus how her nonprofit is making the sport more accessible and welcoming.

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Running Coaches

How Team 816 Coach Randy Taylor Brings Together Kansas City’s Running Community Through Inclusive Race Formats

Coach Randy Taylor leads group and individual run coaching and also organizes several annual races in Kansas City with formats that level the playing field among paces.

Business Founders

Julie Justison’s Decades of Running Friends and a Brain Full of Running Humor Behind the sweaty ponytales Card Line

Founder of sweaty ponytales, a greeting card line for runners, Julie Justison says it’s the experiences she’s had over the years and the friends she’s made that keep her running.

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Business Founders

RunMitts Founder Susan Clayton on Developing the Perfect Running Mitten

Baltimore’s Susan Clayton shares the inspiration behind her running mitten company, RunMitts, and her perspectives on going your own pace, both in running and in running a business.

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Running Coaches

How Sharon Tejada Went From a ‘One and Done’ Bucket List Marathoner to a Philly Run Club Community Leader

Once a solo runner chasing a checkmark on her bucket list, Sharon Tejada found belonging in Philadelphia’s running community. She helps lead Queer Run and Team Philly Race Training, and recently became a run coach through PWRHER’D’s Game Changers program.

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Nonprofit Leaders

Wander Project’s Executive Director Zander Chase on Making Running for a Cause Mainstream

Running offers a vehicle toward change, if we lean into it. Zander Chase, executive director of Wander Project, shares how the organization’s charity bibs provide opportunities for race participants to run for a greater purpose.

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Nonprofit Leaders

Jackie Hoffman’s Peace Runners 773 Is Working Toward Closing the Life Expectancy Gap on Chicago’s West Side

Jackie Hoffman, founder of Peace Runners 773, is leading the charge on health equity advocacy and running programs in Chicago’s historically disinvested neighborhood of Garfield Park.

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Runners

Chicago’s Keegan Kok on Finding the Run Community, Brooks Running Collective, and Advice for New Runners

How posting workouts to social media for accountability opened the doors to Chicago’s running community for Keegan Kok.

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Nonprofit Leaders

Still I Run’s Sasha Wolff on How A Mental Health Crisis Led to Launching a National Community of Support

Supporting runners in their mental health journeys, Still I Run leads in-person and virtual programs that provide runners with community, education, and the gear they need to keep moving forward. Founder Sasha Wolff shares the organization's story.

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Business Founders

Read & Run Chicago’s Allison Yates on Shaping Local Connections Through Book Tours

It’s part run club, part book club. Founder Allison Yates leads Read & Run Tours to help runners get to know their cities and one another.