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Long Beach MARATHON race recap!
by Chic Runner
posted October 13, 2009 at 12:57pm

So, sit back, relax and get ready to read the longest race recap of your life. Hey, if I had my go-to vodka-tonics for everyone, I’d be passing them out, so cheers to imaginary celebratory drinks. But, on the bright side, 26.2 miles is a long way to run...more

3:55:57 and REDEMPTION
by Chic Runner
posted October 11, 2009 at 7:45pm

Race post will come. Most likely on Tuesday, but I just wanted to update and thank you all from the bottom on my heart. This race was MY day, and I just had to believe in myself! I looked like this the entire race. Mind you, I have no idea who the guy ...more

One year ago was my first race…
by Chic Runner
posted October 6, 2009 at 2:54pm

So it’s race time again, as in, Long Beach this weekend race time. I can’t believe I am already ready to get back on that starting line and give racing another shot. It’s funny because when I look back over the past year, I realize that the race I w...more

Weekend training: 'Mill or Mud
by Endurance Meg
posted October 2, 2009 at 3:23pm

This weekend is my only "big" weekend of training between IMoo and the Columbus marathon (which is only two weeks away!!). It still isn't a god-awful weekend, either... but I guess having five weeks between races will do that.Anyway, the schedule is as fo...more

2010 Race Schedule: Decisions, Decisions
by Endurance Meg
posted September 28, 2009 at 12:49pm

This would be a good time to have a coach.I am starting to think (or have been for the last month) about what races I should do next year. I want to race more than I did this year (only three triathlons in 2009; some running races here and there including...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
by LHiggs
posted September 25, 2009 at 4:23pm

Today I thought I would honor the person who brought me into this site. If you are not following her, which you probably are, then you are missing some of the most random (but not mundane) tweets of the day. And I mean all-day. Now, it required quite a bi...more

Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: September 22, 2009 - Here She Is Again, Right on Time
by anngaff
posted September 22, 2009 at 2:06am

Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3", song #5 ("Empire State of Mind") blasted through my Jetta's speakers on the way back from my massage tonight... And since I made it here, I can make it anywhere... When I got home, I fed the baby, changed into running clothes ...more

Oslo Marathon: The final countdown
by I Run - Therefore I Blog
posted September 18, 2009 at 6:12pm

It's getting closer day by day! What's that? The Nike men vs women Oslo Marathon challenge September 27. The girls are leading big time and I think we will win. Yeah! At the moment the girls have logged 1267 km and the boys 310.... Giddy up!I've been real...more

Craigslist Missed Connections?!
by Chic Runner
posted September 11, 2009 at 11:50am

Hooray for it being FRIDAY! That means pictures and hopefully something funny… Well I have a treat for you! Um, so this is the weirdest but most EPIC thing that could have possibly happened to me. I know I get excited about dumb things, but if you don...more

Running for Cancer Research, Please Help
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted August 20, 2009 at 4:53pm

I’m writing this blog post to ask you to help me fund cancer research. On October 11, 2009 I am running Chicago Marathon with Fred’s Team, on behalf of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Aubrey Fund. Fred Lebow was a running legend and c...more

A San Franciscy Movie
by Chic Runner
posted August 20, 2009 at 2:43pm

So I FINALLY figured out how to upload a video, don’t judge me. I know. I had it made for days and then I didn’t realize you had to export it to change the format. Whoops! That is the video of all the San Francisco pictures and the few videos I had...more

Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: August 13, 2009 - Running Pre- and Post- Pregnancy
by anngaff
posted August 13, 2009 at 6:17pm

Since we flew back to Kansas City for the weekend to show off baby Jaelyn to Jason's family and friends, I missed a lot of work and am now very behind.  I work from home (which is a blessing) and need to work on Saturdays and Sundays to keep up with ...more

Funny how…
by Chic Runner
posted August 13, 2009 at 4:55pm

Isn’t it funny how when things happen, you can be completely mortified and then as time goes on, it slowly fades away? Even to a point where you can look back and shake your head and laugh. Believe me, a lot of these moments happen to me throughout my l...more

To Wisconsin and back!
by Endurance Meg
posted August 9, 2009 at 7:45pm

What better way to train for the Ironman than to spend a weekend in Iron County, Wisconsin? I was lucky enough to be invited by my friend, Laurie (who is also training for IMoo), to head down to Hurley, Wisconsin, via bicycle. But the real icing on the ca...more

Do you want some OJ? Learn more about Operation Jack
by Chic Runner
posted August 6, 2009 at 4:17pm

So I have to tell you all about something. It’s rather exciting and this isn’t even my big news which will probably be revealed on Monday, but this could rival that. Anyways, a good friend of mine, Sam, started up Operation Jack. Sam decided to run 60...more

For some people, the joy is in the videos…
by Chic Runner
posted July 31, 2009 at 5:56pm

So ever since I started posting the videos from my races, people love to see myself making an idiot of myself. I mean, in pictures, you can’t really tell that I might be doing something dumb, but videos just prove it all to be true. This past weekend ...more

Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: July 19, 2009 - Think "Pikes Peak"
by anngaff
posted July 20, 2009 at 1:06am

My big sister Catherine and her girlfriend Carrie came to visit this week while Jason is in Japan fighting in the Dream 10 Welterweight Grand Prix.  Thank goodness because otherwise it would have required strategy and planning to get the simplest t...more

Running Q & A’s answered
by Chic Runner
posted July 16, 2009 at 4:32pm

So I while back I gave you guys the opportunity to ask me whatever questions you wanted. So I’ve tried to answer them all in one post and if I missed your question, don’t worry I’ll answer it in an upcoming post. Also, be sure to check out the Sweet...more

Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: July 5, 2009 - What a Difference a Year Makes
by anngaff
posted July 5, 2009 at 6:06pm

What a difference a year makes. On July 4, 2008, I woke up sore and dehydrated from competing the night before in the Final of the 3000m Steeplechase at the US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon.  I'd finished 10th, well out of the t...more

Help a runner couple out!
by LHiggs
posted June 10, 2009 at 11:41pm

Former Hansons-Brooks runners Nick Cordes and Leigh Daniel, now Brooks athletes, are racing three other couples to the altar on NBC’s “TODAY Throws a Wedding.” Some of you may remember Leigh Daniel from her dominating year at Texas Tech in 1999 (at...more

Petrova takes title at Los Angeles Marathon
by Pretty Tough
posted May 25, 2009 at 4:40pm

It’s Marathon Monday in Los Angeles. I had every intention of getting up early this morning and heading downtown to watch the 24th annual running of the race. It was a cool, overcast morning, 59 degrees at the start of the women’s race, with the temp...more

Watch the 100th Drake Relays and the Flora London Marathon on Sunday
by Pretty Tough
posted April 25, 2009 at 10:07pm

by Ann Gaffigan for Pretty Tough If you watched the live airing of the Penn Relays this afternoon, you might have since come down with a case of Track & Field fever. The USA vs. Jamaica relays took center stage, and the packed stadium (attendance was r...more

Inspiration: Dana's Run
by Women's Sports Nation
posted April 21, 2009 at 10:37pm

High School senior Dana Hughes, who will be attending the University of Connecticut on a full softball scholarship, suffered a life threatening brain injury and was unconscious for 3 weeks after a car accident where her good friend Shannon Quail was kille...more

Kara Goucher post-Boston: "I wanted to be the one that won for everybody"
by anngaff
posted April 21, 2009 at 12:26pm

Kara Goucher was in tears. As soon as she hit the finish line. She had given it everything she had on that day and on the hundreds of days leading up to it: the tough training, the sacrifices, the tweaks in nutrition, the meticulous planning of each and...more

Today’s 2009 Boston Marathon: Tune in to Universal Sports, watch Kara Goucher
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted April 20, 2009 at 11:47am

…And they’re off. Right now, more than 25,000 people are lined up in front of the starting line of one of the world’s oldest races: the Boston Marathon. The woman to watch: Kara Goucher. Why? Because many say she’s on her way to becoming the wor...more

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