About Us

The Her Sports + Fitness blog is written by the Her Sports + Fitness magazine editorial team, a diverse group of women who range from marathon runners and triathletes to personal trainers and yogis. Guest bloggers include experts in fitness, gear, nutrition and women's health.

Contributors

Kristin Harrison

Kristin Harrison is the editor in chief of Her Sports + Fitness magazine. A runner, triathlete and all-around adventure junkie, Harrison loves to travel to try new sports. She's gone skydiving over Miami with the Army's Golden Knights team, learned to surf in Costa Rica and spent four days hiking to Machu Picchu in Peru. When she's not traveling, editing or writing articles at the Her Sports office or biking, swimming, running or doing something outdoors, Harrison teaches a college photography course and freelances for The Washington Post's travel section and National Geographic Traveler.

Jeana Durst

Jeana Durst is the senior editor of Her Sports + Fitness. A Pilates believer who enjoys running 5ks, she recently decided to train for an adventure race that involves a mud pit. Most of the time you can find her counting down the days until she gets to travel to
Vietnam to adopt her son, hiking with her two Alabama hound dogs, or seeking out the best local eats with her foodie husband.

Tiffany Connors

Tiffany Connors is the assistant editor for Her Sports + Fitness. Since ditching the bustle of New York City for the heat of St. Petersburg, Fla., Connors has completed a 5k and 10k, and hopes to finish her first half-marathon by the end of the year. In addition to writing for HowStuffWorks, she is the television blog editor for the New York Post. Her hobbies include eating.

Jenn Weede

Jenn Weede’s need to be with nature led her to abandon her ambitious publishing career in Manhattan nine years ago in favor of sharing her passion for the outdoors. Stitches, casts, West Nile virus, giardia, altitude sickness—it’s all part of the job, and well worth it to hike tundra in Iceland, heli-board the Rocky Mountains, surf in Baja and scale Spain’s highest mountain. A freelance writer based in Crestone, Colorado, Weede is an editor-at-large for Her Sports + Fitness. She has also covered the great outdoors for numerous national publications including Women’s Health, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Women Outside, Skiing  and Ski Press.

Emmalee Schmidt

Emmalee Schmidt is an editorial assistant at Her Sports + Fitness. A journalism graduate student at the University of South Florida and a NASM-certified personal trainer, Schmidt believes in pushing herself to the limits. Her favorite hobbies are running, dancing and singing out loud in her car.

Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith is an editorial assistant at Her Sports + Fitness. A journalism student at the University of South Florida, she writes for her college newspaper, The Crow’s Nest, and teaches group fitness classes at the gym on campus. She recently completed her first half marathon at Walt Disney World, and credits her success to the addition of yoga to her training regimen.  When she isn’t at school, work or the gym, she loves to play "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" on Xbox 360, and Wii "Tennis."