The Public Run Club

Know, trust, and enjoy your mind + body.

You can run with us.

-Karly Borden, Founder & Coach

The Program

Step into a daily practice of feeling grounded, energized, and accomplished with runs, circuits, mindset activities, meditations, and more.

About

We participate in the daily practice, ambition, and enjoyment of being and becoming ourselves through running.

Blog

Inspiration, mental exercises, and tips on nutrition, gear and form to help you keep showing up to your own running practice.

Testimonials

"If you are looking for a program that takes the guesswork out of creating a training plan, adapts to your individual needs, and is your personal cheerleader, this is the one for you.”

- Megan E

“Do it! PRC can craft a workout plan for any goal while accommodating schedule/physical limitations you may have.”

- Mark H

“The Public Run Club is inclusive. I love how it meets you where you are and supports you in where you want to go. There are no elitist or snobby attitudes here!”

- Megan E

“The ease of the training app along with the expertise of the coach make for a great boost to your running. It’s very personalized and tailored to my goals, level of running and daily routine.”

- Meg B

“I've pushed myself so much further than I would have on my own and I feel stronger as a result. Running turned out to be the only thing I've ever tried that actually helps with my insomnia: I mentally toughened up and learned to push through minor setbacks that normally would have made me give up.”

- Travis C

“Working with the coach, Karly, was super easy and chill. I never felt like I was being shamed for running slow or if I missed a workout. When I wanted to change up the routine, Karly was super great about adjusting to my needs.”

- Kimberly C

“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” ― @brenebrown Rising Strong⁣
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Boundaries matter in running. Revisit our blog post from a few weeks ago to reconnect the dots. (Link in that bio.) ⁣
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Have a compassionate, boundaried running day ✌️

“The minds first step to self awareness must be through the body” - Dr. George Sheehan.⁣
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Any kind of movement--especially when it connects us to the land--has the power to transform us. To undo the punitive scripts that too many of us have known in association with movement- I'm joining with @hillaryliannamcbride to run through one of the most beautiful places in the world: Tanzania. ⁣
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Through the support of the people who’s land we will be running on, join other women from all over the world as we focus on connecting to our bodies through movement for joy, for healing, to learn, to connect, as a meditation, as an invitation, and as a political act. ⁣
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We'll be exploring embodiment in many ways, including from a variety of non-western perspectives, to learn from ideas of other cultures who have a relationship with the moving body. ⁣
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Jump in and join us this September. Get info and stay in the loop with the link in bio. ⁣

Know, trust, and enjoy your mind and body through running. Get one new technique delivered straight to your inbox each day with our free Mind Training Guide for Runners. ⁣
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(By the end of the week, you’ll have a mini mindfulness toolkit to help you show up and tune in to your daily training.) ⁣
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Link in bio! ⁣

On Fridays, we flex our autonomy muscles. Challenge Folks, it's you-do-you day (which is *every* day, we just practice it with more intention today...)⁣
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Autonomy: freedom from external control or influence; independence; self-governing. ⁣
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Self-governing: exercising control over one's own affairs; agency.⁣
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Agency: a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result. ⁣
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How do you want to move today? There's no right answer and all responses are admirable. ⁣
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TGIF. ✌️⁣
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#ThanksMindThanksBody⁣

⁣Running can knock over the first domino in a lineup of healthy choices. Not “healthy choices" as in rice cakes for breakfast. But "healthy choices" as in continued self-advocacy for the rest of the day. ⁣
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Go get it.⁣
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#ThanksMindThanksBody⁣
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#strongrunnerchicks #womensrunningcommunity #motherrunner #inspiringwomenrunners #runhappy #ihavearunnersbody #runlikeagirl #gorun #girlswhorun #lovetorun #morethanarunner ⁣

⁣The definition of "fitness" is "the quality of being suitable to fulfill a particular role or task."
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What are your tasks at hand? ⁣
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Make realistic *fitness* goals that support and enhance *your* ability to perform *your* specific tasks. ⁣
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Maybe that's running the local marathon with your sister. ⁣
Maybe that's getting on the ground with your toddler. ⁣
Maybe that's sitting at your day job for 8 hours. ⁣
Maybe that's standing at your side hustle on week nights. ⁣
Maybe that's running to keep your spirits high.⁣
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Your running goal doesn't *have* to be an all-or-nothing ordeal. Your running goal could simply reflect ^^those^^ other aspects of your life.⁣
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(...Just a friendly reminder that just gettin' out there is a-ok ;))⁣

Naming the narrow bumpers that we’ve learned to “correct” ourselves with in running is deeply empowering: for starters, it gives us the opportunity to smash them and see that we’ll still live, often with a greater sense of healthy, mature freedom. ⁣
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So, let’s smash them here.⁣
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New blog post up! I'm sharing the beginner steps I've given to past PRC runners who felt trapped by their relationship with fitness. ⁣
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#strongrunnerchicks #womensrunningcommunity #motherrunner #inspiringwomenrunners #runhappy #ihavearunnersbody #runlikeagirl #gorun #girlswhorun #lovetorun #morethanarunner

Sometimes taking your running "to the next level" means going deeper in instead of higher up. Take this mantra to heart during your runs this week. Change the emphasis on each word to see if it hits you in different ways.⁣
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"No one deserves to be here more than me."⁣

👀New Blog Post ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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I received a great & noble question last week, so I decided to unpack it in a blog post with a few new tools as we continue to learn that we're the gatekeeper of our own mind and body. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Question: “I'm not new to running, but I’m kind of shocked at what a show my low self-esteem is putting on during my training (and now outside of my training, too). Do you have any tips on how to create *real* confidence? PS: I don't think affirmations work for me..?” ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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On Mondays, we Mantra Run. "Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice." - @brenebrown
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Challenge Folks: As you're bolstering your commitment to bigger runs this week, you're invite to a new commitment of compassion, too. Choose to practice it freely.