Category: Holly Rapp

By HPRS Staff Columnist Holly Rapp I’ve been working on a piece on inclusivity and diversity in our running community for quite some time. But the devastating news of runner Ahmaud Arbery’s murder has taken precedence over everything I wanted...

By HPRS Staff Columnist Holly Rapp Professional runner Mary Cain’s recent devastating story of abuse at the Nike Oregon Project brought one of the most intimate issues facing runners today into a national spotlight: that of bodies. While there is...

By HPRS Staff Columnist Holly Rapp This is the road outside my front door. If you go to the end, turn around, and go back to my house, you will cover half of a mile. Half a mile. A distance...

[cherry_row] [cherry_col size_md=”12″] By HPRS Staff Columnist Holly Rapp Can you tell a story about a race you didn’t run? *** When I first thought about trying the race, I knew I was a completely different runner. I had built...

By HPRS Staff Columnist Holly Rapp Six months ago, I wrote my first piece for HPRS about how grateful I was for the ability to run again after a long injury- and illness-induced hiatus. I planned to follow up with...

By Staff Columnist Holly Rapp For most of my years as a runner, I avoided races and group runs because I was afraid of being last. As someone who isn’t even remotely competitive, these concerns made little sense. And looking...