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RUNGRL B’Day Virtual 5K Takes Place April 28

April is RUNGRL’s birthday month and we’re celebrating the best way we know how—through miles with all of you! We've partnered with Gixo, a dope fitness app that offers fun, live workouts for every fitness level, to bring you our first-ever Virtual 5K on Sunday, April 28 at 9 am EST!

Getting Organized to Improve Your Health and Fitness

It’s officially not the “New Year” anymore. Perhaps you set out to jump on the whole “new year, new me” plan but, a few weeks in, it’s not really working out. Whether you’re not having success or you’re finding your new lifestyle hard to sustain, it’s likely that you failed to get organized first.

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BeginHer — Start Your Running Journey Today

New beginnings often come with new hope and excitement. However, when it comes to health and fitness, sometimes it can be hard to keep that new enthusiasm going long enough to see lasting results. RUNGRL wants to help with that. Whether you’re returning from a lengthy hiatus, looking to change up your current fitness routine, or simply don’t know where to begin, we understand the challenges of starting something new. Whatever your reason, we’ve got you, sis! RUNGRL is here to help you begin again.

How to Preserve Straightened Hair Through a Workout

The situation is all too familiar: You spend so much time blowing out, flat ironing and otherwise pressing your hair into a spectacularly ‘LAID’ style, and when it’s time to work out, all you can think about is how much work it will be to fix it once you’ve sweated it out.

Celebrity Hairstylist Yene Damtew on Healthy Hair, Fitness and Fitting it All In

Yene strongly believes in continuing education for stylists and learning to identify what changes in the hair and scalp can really mean. “Many stylists today aren’t educated enough to recognize the change in your hair and ask what’s going on in your life that would cause this change in hair texture, fullness, etc. With trends like the lace-front movement, there are many stylists who know the application of these units, but who do not care for the hair underneath.

This is #MyRunningHair - RUNGRL Co.

Whether relaxed or natural; wearing weaves, braids, or locks, when asked about the No. 1 barrier to fitness for Black women, you can expect a large percentage will say "hair." With the growing number of health disparities for Black women worldwide, it is more important than ever to demonstrate ways to get (and keep) Black women moving.

Haircare Plays a Major Role in Health and Wellness for Black Women

How much of a role does haircare play in your life when it comes to fitness? As active Black women interested in both wellness and healthy hair, RUNGRL knows the struggle. Whether you have work meetings in the morning or dinner plans in the evening, you don’t want to have to sacrifice your hair to get in a good workout.

RUNGRL is On a Mission To Empower Black Women Through Running

When Black women gather, magic happens, and such was the case when Jasmine Nesi and Ashlee Lawson met in 2014 as members of the run club District Running Collective. Running enthusiasts, who wanted to connect with more Black women in the sport, they were tired of not seeing themselves represented at races across the country, and in wellness spaces overall.

This Group Is Inspiring a New Wave of Black Women Distance Runners

One of the most attractive aspects of running is its simplicity: you only need one good pair of shoes to get started. But for black women, a lack of high-profile distance runners who look like them can create an unseen barrier to the sport. As the saying goes, "you can’t be what you can’t see."

Meet The Women Who Are Changing the Future for Black Distance Runners in DC

When Jasmine Nesi and Ashlee Lawson met in 2014 as members of the run club District Running Collective, they realized that, while DC’s running community is diverse, “There wasn’t a space for black women distance runners,” says Nesi, who lives in Northeast and works in PR. “For black women especially, when you think of running, you think of track [and field]. I think we fall off around the 800-meter mark,” she says.

Na'Tasha Jones

Na'Tasha Jones

Co-founder and Chief Content Officer, RUNGRL.co