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I found a running-related article tonight at The Salem News website that fascinated me. Jay Kumar wrote about his experience two days earlier in the Yankee Homecoming 10-miler in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It began at 6:35 PM. That’s right — PM, not AM. Having run nearly all my races in Houston and Los Angeles, I have …
Roberta McInnis wrote two days ago about how the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon sold out at a torrid pace this past weekend — 17-19 July 2009. Registration for the Aramco Houston Half Marathon closed 20 hours after it opened at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and the marathon was full by 1 …
Most walkers and runners believe that it is important to stretch after warming up. The hypothesis supporting this is that the extra blood flow to warmed-up muscles helps to protect you from injury during stretching. But Marc Rosenberg, D.C., recommends that you stretch before warming up. His argument: If you stretch COLD, your gains in …
Jacob Breinholt wrote an excellent article about how to gain entry to the New York City (NYC) Marathon. Here are the four methods today: Earn a qualifying time at another marathon. Participate in the New York Road Runners (NYRR) 9+1 program. Enter the NYC Marathon Lottery. Raise money for a charity that participates in the …
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A video on the Web illustrates the dangers of walking while text-messaging. American College of Emergency Physicians has warned: Don’t text or use a cell phone while engaged in any physical activities that require sustained attention; such activities include walking, biking, boating, rollerblading or even intermittent-contact sports such as baseball, football or soccer. And Staten …
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You can stay healthy by walking — or biking — to and from work. Researchers confirmed this in an article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, in which they referred to walking or biking to and from work as “active commuting”. Here is the conclusion in the article’s abstract: Active commuting was positively associated …
Examiner.com has an article about downloadable walking tours of Paris. The four tours listed in the article are: Mythical Paris Monumental Paris Paris River Seine Village Pairs To me, one of the benefits of becoming a better walker is being able to focus more on the scenery than on the walking. Where have you walked …
This coming Saturday will be 11 July 2009. Skylab I tumbled back to Earth thirty years before this coming Saturday. A Minnesota resident by the name of Joan Monson began walking three miles a day exactly fifteen years before this coming Saturday. You read that correctly: This Saturday will mark the fifteenth anniversary of this …