About 500 University of Nebraska students participated in a 12-hour dance marathon in Lincoln Friday night into Saturday morning that raised more than $35,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
The event ran from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday. Proceeds will help the hospital’s Child-Life Program and Rainbow House.
“Child-Life Program just gives different opportunities for the kids while they’re staying at the hospital, Read the rest of this entry »

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Training has already begun for many of the participants in the 2009 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, set for March 29, 2009. Registration is currently open for this race that has steadily grown in popularity in the four years runners have taken to the streets of Knoxville.
One band of runners is especially pumped up. Organizers of the event have again selected a group of East Tennesseans to serve as ambassadors for the marathon, which will mark Read the rest of this entry »

Running a marathon is a huge stress on one’s body, no matter how healthy you are or think you are. Training for a marathon/running regularly is good for your health, but actually running a whole marathon is not. There was an interesting article on the risk of dying of a heart attach while running a marathon last year in the New York Times (I think) and I’m sure elsewhere. I also read about a day or two ago about how your im
munity drops quite Read the rest of this entry »

Ride the bike: Unique marathon combines library, fitness
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla.
–They rode 2,650 miles in 140 hours. When one person tired, another jumped onto the bicycle. No one got sunburned or rained upon or stuck in traffic. That wasn’t difficult because the entire grueling journey took place inside a library. It was the Library Fitness Cycle Marathon Challenge atHurlburt Field, a unique collaboration between the base’s library and fitness Read the rest of this entry »

BEDFORD — Zachary Sotelo can’t run as fast as most 10-year-olds.
And his bones are more fragile than the average child his age.
Sotelo was born with spina bifida, an opening in the spine.
Sotelo’s mother, Staci Sotelo, said the birth defect hasn’t slowed her son.
He plays wheelchair basketball with the Dallas Junior Wheelchair Mavericks Team and baseball with the Miracle League in Arlington.
He is also getting ready Read the rest of this entry »

The fourth annual Kansas City Health and Fitness Expo, a prelude to the Kansas City Marathon on Saturday, will be from 4 to 9 tonight and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at the Crown Center Exhibit Hall. It’s free and open to the public.
It includes motivational speaker and marathoner Dick Beardsley. Beardsley ran the fifth-fastest time in U.S. men’s marathon history (2:08:53). He has also survived several near-fatal accidents, substance Read the rest of this entry »

Health, fitness expo to be part of 2008 Marathon of the Palm Beaches
Sunday, November 02, 2008
The 2008 Publix Health & Fitness Expo is set for Dec. 5-6 at the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace.
The expo, part of the 2008 Marathon of the Palm Beaches, will showcase health and fitness services and products. During expo hours, from noon to 7 p.m. Dec. 5 and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 6, runners can register for the marathon competitions Read the rest of this entry »

(Springfield, MO) — Hundreds of people got up early this morning for a long run.
The Bass Pro Outdoor Fitness Festival marathon kicked off just after daybreak, with runners from around the world.
Runners chose either the 10k or half-marathon, both of which looped through south Springfield.
Even though the temperatures may have been brisk this morning, that didn't stop these runners from stepping up to the starting line.
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