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This is the second part of my focus on what is indeed a shameful reality that faces every woman who goes running. It's one that everyone needs to be fully recognize. My research for these two posts included reaching out to several women runners that I know who live in urban, rural and suburban settings. In the previous post, they provided powerful testimony that included some of their more terrifying experiences. This post includes their recommendations to improve safety

Several weeks ago, during an early morning run, I saw a female runner approaching me. Under the streetlights, I could tell that it was someone I’d seen before. We’d always exchanged a short greeting when going past one another. But today was different. I was just a few meters short of my turn around point. It also appeared that I’d tdo so at nearly the exact moment that we would meet on this bicycle path. Not wanting to make her nervous, I ended up stopping for about th

“Well shoot.” Was I ever so young? This is 2019's Capital Pursuit when I foolishly went out way, way too fast. Those were the words of my running coach when I informed him of my hamstring injury a few weeks back. Or I think Coach Ives said something to that effect. I strongly suspect that I said something a tad harsher when I realized that the "Capital Curse" had struck again. It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. After going over a year between races due all the drama