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Why Not Train on Your Own? It’s dark, it’s cold outside, and your bed is snuggly warm; yet you know you need to get outside and train. You reset the alarm, pull the covers up a little tighter, and fall back to sleep cursing your eagerness two months ago when you registered for the ever-looming […]
As a coach for the National AIDS Marathon Training Program in 1998, I trained my runners – the majority self proclaimed couch potatoes – to successfully run their first marathon at the end of their 26-week training cycle, all the while raising money to fund AIDS research and to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic. […]
The running community is absolutely amazing, but I already knew that! This morning I ran with two other MRTT ladies for the very first time. Many from our group were either running in the Rock ‘N’ Roll USA Half Marathon or the Lucky Leprechaun 5K, so that left only three of us to brave […]
Last night Potomac River Running Store hosted our local Moms RUN This Town running club for an evening out and a short seminar on the biomechanics of running. We were originally scheduled to have a yoga for runners class, too, but the yoga instructor slipped on ice earlier this week and hurt her ankle. I […]
I’ll admit it, I was a wimp! After trying to find a time that the Cruisers could meet to run yesterday morning without freezing our behinds off and breaking our necks on the ice, I canceled our run. Friday evening I started feeling icky and that made it even easier to cancel… I woke up […]
Hello again! I (Julie) am writing today while Deb and Bill are off on their relaxing vacation. I’m sure they are having a great time and missing all of us like crazy! 😉 Before reading further, I need you to prepare yourself…..I am about to ask you to make a VERY VERY VERY important decision. […]
At the 2009 Marine Corps Marathon, three Cruisers qualified for Boston: Alan, Candy, and I. Alan and Candy flew to Boston, but I rode in the first ever “Cruisers Road Trip” with fellow Cruisers Jerome, Chuck, and Sal. The following is part one of an excerpt of my recap that I wrote when we got […]
Yesterday I talked about how my running group got started, and I promised that today I would talk about finding a group. But first, I want to talk about the benefits of being in a running group. Benefits of running with a group: Knowing others are waiting for you, keeps you accountable! It’s safer […]
I am a very lucky girl! I have a great network of running friends, and I can almost always find someone to go for a run with me if I plan ahead. Many in my running group have been together since 2000, so needless to say, we have become a great group of friends! We’ve […]
I actually woke up hoping that it was raining so I could stay snuggled under my warm covers and sleep a little longer. When I didn’t hear any rain drops hitting our sky lights, I got up and checked the weather forecast. 33 degrees with an 81 percent chance of rain… And that, right there […]
