Hi, I'm Brianna.

Two years ago I woke up and decided it would be fun to run all the World Marathon Majors in a year. Small problem: I didn't run.

I had never raced anything. Not a 5K, not a turkey trot, nothing. I did not know how long a marathon was. I signed up anyway, and then I found out.

Before that I was a lightweight rower at Stanford. Weight class sport, three national championships, Olympic trials level. January on the Potomac with my coach in a launch cracking the ice ahead of me, no gloves, because rowers don't wear gloves. I know exactly what training hard and underfueling does to a body, because I did it for years. That is most of why this site has a Fuel section.

I ran all six. New York, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York again, and then Tokyo for the sixth star. Somewhere in the middle of that year running stopped being a bit and started being the thing I organize my life around.

I have a coach now, since November 2025. Everyone should get a coach. Two long runs a week, a gel every 40 minutes, and my legs feel totally, totally fine. My marathon PR is 3:07. The plan is sub 3 in Chicago this fall and the Olympic Trials qualifying time about 18 months from now.

The day job: I'm a software engineer. I work from home, in tech, which is how 80 to 100 miles a week fits around meetings. Before my last 20 miler before Chicago I set my Slack status to running 20 miles easy so people would know it's chill. I run twice a day in New York, mostly before the city is awake and after work, mostly on the West Side Highway, mostly alone.

If you found me because my dad fell in a pool on camera, hi. He does not have TikTok. Please don't tell him.

Why a fashion site

Because I was never going to look bad doing this. I put together about 10 running outfits a week and I think about them more than I should. Whether the crop matches the shorts, whether the sock height is right for the short, whether the bow is free speed. It is.

The catch is that most running fashion content is written by people who don't say what size they wore, and most gear reviews are written by people who don't care what it looks like. This site is both. Every piece on here was worn by me, on a body with one set of measurements, and the size is stated every single time. Crops XS, shorts S, I have pretty big legs. If you're my size you can just buy what fits me. If you're not, you can at least see how it sits on a real person and translate.

What's on here

• Fits. The weekly fits, with the run each one was for and the size of every piece.
• Functionality. How to fit as much shit as possible on your run. Phone, 5 gels, keys, water, all on my back, no belt. Which pockets work and which ones scratch.
• Race Kit. What I race in and what's gonna fuck me up on race day, tried on across brands so you can see your options in one place.
• Fuel. Every gel, chew and drink mix I've tried on real long runs, and whether it fits in a pocket. 100g of carbs an hour. Never work out fasted.
• Shoes. My rotation, what each shoe is for, how many miles it got, which ones I would not rebuy, and what I'd race in.
• 0 to OTQ. The running part. Training, races, what my coach changed, what I got wrong.

How I review things

• I list the size I wore, and my measurements are on one page so you can compare.
• Pocket tests use a real phone over 10 to 20 mile runs. Can I get the phone in and out one handed, can I fit more than a phone in the phone pocket, does anything scratch my back.
• Comparisons are worn in the same week on the same routes.
• Shoes get real miles before I write anything, and I say how many.
• Nobody sees a post before it goes up. If something is an ad it says so. If I'm just a super fan, it says that too.

Say hi

I'm @goldagold13 on TikTok. For brand stuff, questions, or to tell me I'm wrong about a short: briannagraceruns@gmail.com.