Too Cold to Run
Too Cold to Run? Try Cross-Training As winter drags on, it can be hard to get out the door to get your mileage in. Trudging through the snow and the slush can leave you with numb toes, frozen fingers, and achy joints from all the slipping and sliding. Some days it can be tough to […]
Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon
Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon Running Strong for 42 Years The Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon is one of the 50 oldest marathons in the United States and began as an effort to bring a positive and meaningful fitness event to the City of Cleveland, which was suffering economically at the time. More than 350,000 runners have […]
Top Ten Gifts for Runners
Believe it or not, the holidays are already well on their way. Department stores seem to have an agenda that brings out red and green tinsel and Christmas sales before we can even get through Halloween. It’s tough to go shopping without seeing festive decorations or stumbling on candy-cane scented candles. Despite the Santa Clause-themed […]
Outdoor Adventure Gifts
For those people who are go-getters and extremely capable people, you most likely already have all of your shopping done for this holiday season. However, if you are anything like me, then you are staring at an empty closet wondering what gifts to fill it with for your loved ones. Either way, I hope that […]
The Buck Fifty
The Buck Fifty: We Never Win on Adventures Not Taken Every day in life, we are faced with hundreds of decisions. I once met a psychologist, Dr. Roger Hall, who said he ate the same breakfast every day when he traveled. He did this just to take one more decision off his mind. Today’s society […]
Hormones and Gut Health
Ah, the great topic of hormones. When you think of hormones, things such as mood swings, weight gain, puberty, menopause, or stress might come to mind. These are all very real effects of hormones working in the body. Hormones are a necessary part of your body’s total functioning. Without them you wouldn’t survive. Around 50 […]
The Five Boro Bike Tour
Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Sounds like a great tour of New York, doesn’t it? In reality, these are the five boroughs of New York City we travelled through during the Five Boro Bike Tour on May 5, 2019. While I have participated in previous bike races and bike tours, this was […]
Tiger Muay Thai
Thailand was always a dream destination, albeit one that seemed perhaps too distant a location to be a dream that could easily come true. After all, there are amazing beaches far closer to home that I have yet to enjoy. But when my boyfriend expressed his desire to train traditional martial arts at a gym […]
Youngstown Marathon
Discover what local runners have been excited about for years by running the third annual Youngstown Marathon, Half Marathon, and 5K on Sunday, October 27, 2019. While the marathon itself may only be in its third year, historic Mill Creek Park, which is featured in all three distances, has been claiming a loyal following of […]
Running Form Drills
For many years during my early days of running and all through college, form drills were a routine part of practice. They were often the fun part, as we got to skip, jump, hop and move in ways that seemed more like play than work. Little did I realize how much these simple drills did […]
Iron Deficiency in Runners
There’s a quote somewhere that goes something like “Running is a metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” We always tend to hope that this is the case, that we will be rewarded for our hard work with success. However, in running, as in life, there are many […]
Positive Mind, Positive Life, Positive Results
When I was about 8 years old, I picked up the mentality of wanting to be the best at anything I did and to focus only on that one thing. Licensed psychologists and counselors call it obsession, but I call it passion. You may have heard that many Olympians and other successful people have been […]