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Lesley Higgins (LHiggs)
@le_diable
New York City

About LHiggs:
Former competitive fast-pitch softball player and dancer turned steeplechaser with a best finish of 2nd in the NCAA mile and a finalist in the 2008 Olympic Trials 3000m steeplechase

LHiggs's Favorite Sports:
Swim, Running, Cross Country, Softball, Track & Field, Dance

LHiggs's Posts:

How To: turn your iPad into a WomenTalkSports magazine
posted on July 22, 2010 at 8:25pm

This is pretty cool. 

WTS screenshot

Right?

Here's another:

WTS screenshot

Yes, that is a picture of @anngaff's fiancé in the middle there.

This magazine style read of WomenTalkSports content is brought to you by Flipboard.

Here's how you do it:

Download Flipboard to you iPad. It will look something like this when you open it up.

Flipboard screen shot

Select "add a section"

flipboard screenshot

You'll get this pop-up:

Type womentalksports into the search field and our twitter feed will show up:

flipboard screenshot

Select our feed. And then you will probably see this:

Flipboard screenshot

But never fear. Keep trying. Once you are successful, your homescreen will now look like this (I moved WTS to the upper-right corner):

Flipboard screenshot

And now we have the intended result:

WTS screenshot

Oh, and if you are lucky, your opening screen will look like this:

Flipboard screenshot

This has been fun. 

A week in the life
posted on March 31, 2010 at 5:54am

@amarathoner_com asked me to throw up a sample week of training, so here it goes. This was my last week, plus a couple days into this week because they were very different from last week. Last week was basically my first building week of the outdoor ...more

Dedicated Twitter Wrap
posted on March 26, 2010 at 3:25pm

  Today's twitter wrap is largely dedicated to World Champion Lolo Jones, @followlolo. If you are not following Lolo, I encourage you to do so. And, if you are an athlete that we follow, I also encourage you to study her tweets. She sets the bar ver...more

Sporadic Twitter Wrap
posted on February 26, 2010 at 8:59pm

I had good intentions with this twitter wrap, I really did. I was called out by @anngaff and @USATrack_Field because I was traveling to the USA Indoor championships today and therefore should have tons of free time on my hands. So, I started working on i...more

You may have missed.... USA's first gold
posted on February 15, 2010 at 10:52am

A friend of mine (male) gathered a relatively large group of friends in his relatively small studio on Saturday night with one purpose in mind: to watch the Women's moguls be contested at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This is exciting, right? This is wha...more

Pre-Olympic twitter wrap
posted on February 5, 2010 at 1:19pm

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are finally (almost) here! This is your opportunity to get to know some new athletes (if you weren't already an avid snow-sports follower). I know that over the last couple weeks, I have learned a lot about these g...more

Save Johanna's Brain
posted on January 28, 2010 at 10:22am

This morning @BrooksElite drew my attention to a new blog that, well, made me tear up a little. Save Johanna's Brain is a website set up to raise money for Brooks athlete Johanna Olson, who is battling her second brain tumor. Johanna is just 30. She is a ...more

The running world's elites come together to create a live a silent auction to benefit the Jenny Crain Make it Happen Fund
posted on January 22, 2010 at 8:18am

Jenny Crain was, in the not to distant past, one of the top female runners in the country. Boasting personal bests of 32:30 for 10,000m, 1:15:05 for the half-marathon and 2:37:36 for the marathon, she was the top American finisher in the 2004 ING New York...more

Christmas twitter wrap
posted on December 25, 2009 at 3:40pm

  Did anyone here get the idea in their heads that Christmas equals a day off from training? If you did, you'd be wrong. Professional athletes don't always get a day off just because the stock market is closed. Below are some of the most serious, fu...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on December 19, 2009 at 6:03am

It's holiday travel season, and with the invention of twitter, I think we are going to be seeing a LOT of bitching and moaning (not judging, I did my own share of twitter travel whining today). Just a preview:@briannaglenn: I wonder why people don't unde...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on December 4, 2009 at 1:54pm

Funny stuff: @followlolo: Should I autograph this?---->my butt print after sitting down after a hard workout.Call me Lo-J the opposite o http://tweetphoto.com/5829513@jhayes14kt: Everytime I get my brows waxed sum heffa alway like u want upper lip wax...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on November 20, 2009 at 3:16pm

Short twitter wrap this week, but just wanted to throw out some tweets that I found amusing. I hope you share my sense of humor and/or amusement:   @lynzskate: check out my character in @THRIDE http://thride.com/us/#/game... then go get it! IN STO...more

You get 2
posted on November 14, 2009 at 6:51pm

When I was in college and things were not going particularly the way I wanted, I would go through the following list of what sucked:   a) Running b) School c) Love   I would be running well and getting the attention of my flavor of the mon...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on November 13, 2009 at 2:06pm

A popular discussion this week has been soccer violence, how it's been covered in the media, and how the coverage is being covered. However, this is a great find that should tell us a lot about women athletes and if they are getting more violent, or if th...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on November 6, 2009 at 3:32pm

With the introduction of lists in twitter, we have been working hard to make lists so that it is easy for you all to follow sports that you are interseted in. We also have a Pro Athletes list, which I have been meticulously adding athletes to. The huge up...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on October 23, 2009 at 2:07pm

Everyone seems to be utilizing twitpic and the like more and more these days. Last Friday (when the twitter wrap was on vacation in Vegas), I even felt compelled to send notice with just a picture and no words. A picture of the pool seemed explanation eno...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on October 9, 2009 at 1:54pm

I had some major Celebrity/Athlete lust as I read through tweets this week. It's like the lifestyles of the rich and famous around here. Being a great athlete can really take you places (literally) and expose you to amazing adventures. I am wishing I had ...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on October 2, 2009 at 12:10pm

This week I did a little research on the women that I was featuring in my wrap. It was somewhat interesting, but not all that surprising, to see how many followers each athlete had. ShawneyJ (Shawn Johnson) - 42,724 Followers NLiukin (Nastia Liukin) - 17,...more

Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:23pm

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

Inaugural Weekly Twitter Wrap
posted on September 18, 2009 at 7:59am

Welcome to my first weekly Twitter Wrap. The following is a collection of my favorite tweets by Professional Athlete from all sports. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I welcome your comments and tips throughout the week, you can bring tweet tha...more

USATF Championships Day 3 Recap
posted on June 28, 2009 at 1:26pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: AnnGaff and LesleyHiggins are blogging about the USA Track & Field Championships, taking place this weekend in Eugene, OR, based on their firsthand Track & Field experience.  Gaffigan and Higgins competed against each other i...more

USATF Championships Preview - Women's Hammer
posted on June 28, 2009 at 10:11am

EDITOR'S NOTE: AnnGaff and LesleyHiggins are writing these previews for the USA Track & Field Championships, taking place this weekend in Eugene, OR, based on their firsthand Track & Field experience.  Gaffigan and Higgins competed against each other i...more

USATF Championships Preview - Women's Javelin
posted on June 27, 2009 at 4:38pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: AnnGaff and LesleyHiggins are writing these previews for the USA Track & Field Championships, taking place this weekend in Eugene, OR, based on their firsthand Track & Field experience.  Gaffigan and Higgins competed against ea...more

USATF Championships Preview - Women's 5000m
posted on June 26, 2009 at 4:52pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: AnnGaff and LesleyHiggins are writing these previews for the USA Track & Field Championships, taking place this weekend in Eugene, OR, based on their firsthand Track & Field experience.  Gaffigan and Higgins competed against each other i...more

USATF Championships preview - Women's Shot Put
posted on June 26, 2009 at 4:30pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: AnnGaff and LesleyHiggins are writing these previews for the USA Track & Field Championships, taking place this weekend in Eugene, OR, based on their firsthand Track & Field experience.  Gaffigan and Higgins competed against each other i...more
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