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Training after 40 changed for me — not less of it, smarter. My weeks are built around Zone 2 running, two strength sessions, and the interval and sprint work that still keeps me fast. Everything in this section is what I actually do, adapted to a body that recovers differently than it did at 35.

Running gear matters more after 40, and I've learned most of it the hard way — through an Achilles injury that told me immediately when I got a shoe wrong. Here I review the shoes I actually put miles on, and what road, trail and treadmill each ask of a midlife body. If I recommend it, I've run in it.

Starting — or restarting — running after 50 isn't a smaller version of what you did at 30; it's a different sport with the same finish line. These guides cover how to begin safely, how to train for a first marathon in midlife, and how to keep going as the decades add up. Twenty-eight marathons in, what I can tell you is that age changes the training, not the possibility.

Perimenopause changed how running feels long before I had a word for it — the fatigue, the hot flashes, the days I questioned whether I still belonged on the start line. I'm navigating it without HRT, and these articles cover what's actually happening with your hormones, why running feels harder, and how to train through the transition instead of against it. Recovery and brain health included, because that's where I felt it first.

After 40, fueling is training. I trained at Le Cordon Bleu and cooked at the Waldorf Astoria before I started calling this performance cuisine — protein targets, hydration, carb timing, anti-inflammatory eating, all of it built to be cooked on a Tuesday night. Here's what I eat before, during and after my runs, and why.

Recovery is the part I used to skip, and my Achilles made me pay for it. These articles cover injury prevention, mobility, HRV, sleep and the recovery work that lets me keep showing up — because the goal was never one good run, it's decades of them.

Running after 40 changed more than my fitness — it changed what I thought was still available to me. These are the essays on reinvention, mindset, travel, relationships, and the gray hair I stopped covering years ago: the reasons we run that have nothing to do with pace.