Women's Running Magazine

There’s no reason why your hair shouldn’t look as conditioned as your body.

Don’t let your locks be a casualty of your active lifestyle. Los Angeles-based celebrity hairstylist Larry Sims, who has coifed the manes of celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Queen Latifah, Eva Longoria and Jennifer Lopez to name a few, offers tips for achieving stronger, healthier, more beautiful hair.

Jazz up your diet with these cool carbs.

Women runners seem to have a natural aversion to the C word. For many of us, consuming the usual carbs (think pasta and potatoes) seems like a bad idea when trying to lose weight and eat better. We lose sight of the fact that they are the primary energy for working muscles, helping us to run hard and recover well. Perhaps you’re blasé about carbs because you’re burnt out on the old standbys.

Try one or more of these alternatives for a fresh take on the usual fare.

Dr. John Gross offers straightforward advice to help treat and prevent the most common women’s running injuries.

Based on your experience, what are the most common running-related injuries women face? Are there injuries women are more prone to than men?

The most common running injuries in women aren’t so different than those found in men. The only difference is the incidences of them are somewhat higher in women. The top three running injuries in women are knee tendonitis, otherwise known as runner’s knee, iliotibial band (IT band) syndrome and shin splints, which, if untreated, will progress to stress fractures.

How three ordinary women became runner s and lost nearly 300 pounds.

Jen Arruda sat beside her newborn son watching him struggle to breathe. She visited him in the neonatal intensive care unit every day, all day. Born six weeks premature, Zakary had taken only a handful of normal breaths before his underdeveloped lungs had  collapsed. He had stopped breathing once earlier that day, twice the night before. Arruda obsessed over one thought—I did this to him.