Dimity mcdowell biography

Dimity & Sarah: amazing women whose words have inspired me–and countless other mothers (and dads, too!)–to keep on running.

Back in spring 2010, not too long before I started Michigan Runner Girl, I wrote posts about running for a northern Michigan trails organization.

I’d been running for a few years, had several races under my belt, and was really starting to ramp up my mileage and health and fitness writing.

A Denver-based sports + fitness writer, Dimity McDowell has covered everything from the Women's World Cup to the World Adventure Racing Championships.

A Denver-based sports + fitness writer, Dimity McDowell has covered everything from the Women's World Cup to the World Adventure Racing Championships.

Writer, coach, podcaster, co-founder @themotherrunner.

A dedicated if not natural runner, Dimity McDowell writes regularly about sports and fitness for a range of magazines, including Runner's World and ESPN: The Magazine.

Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea offer both inspirational advice and practical strategies to help multitasking women make running part of their busy lives.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Jack, and three young children, including boy-girl twins.

The sport definitely had become an integral part of my life. And when I wasn’t out on the roads or trails, or writing about the mental and physical benefits of exercise, I was reading about running—magazines, web sites, books, whatever I could find.

One of my absolute faves: Run Like a Mother by Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea—two women I “knew” through their bylines in Runner’s World. I made a request for a review copy—a perk of being a freelance journalist—and from the moment I