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2 Beginner's 5K Training Schedule
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3 How to Run a Faster 5K
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4 How To Run Your Best 5K
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5 Good Goals are Good
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6 Charlotte's Thunder Road Marathon
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7 Give Others a Kick from Your Kicks
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8 Happy New Year!!!!!!
Inspiration
9 5k's with 6 Kids: Ceci St. Geme Is One Fast Mother
You've been running regularly for some time and have completed a few 5K fun runs. But now it's time to step it up and take this distance seriously. Here are some tips to help you beat your personal record when running 3.1 miles. During Training Add speedwork: If you want to run a faster 5K, you have to practice running faster. Coach Andrew Kastor recommends adding 80-meter sprints into your Read more
Running your first 5K race is a magical thing! You train, you run, and you realize you like the adrenalin of the race and crossing the finish line is a unique high. Many consider the 5K distance a gateway race; meaning completing this distance leads to other races. If you can run 3.1 miles why not try for 6.2 and compete in a 10K? Why not tackle a triathlon? Since many of you listed running a 5K Read more
If you have a few races under your belt and want to take your training to the next level for faster finish times, you need to add speed work into your training plan. Running coach Andrew Kastor wants to help you set a PR (personal record) this Summer in your next 5K. Here is his four-week plan (for intermediate runners with a solid cardio base) to get you up to speed — literally. Coach Kastor Read more
Spring is a great time to get outside and run around . . . and I don't mean just for your dog! Make it a team effort and train for a 5K that your furry pal can participate in as well. There are plenty of fun runs that benefit not only your health, but the animal shelters and programs that host the events get a much-needed bump in funds from all those entry fees.Running can seem like a scary sport Read more
If you are following the Couch to 5K plan or the beginner's running program from Runner's World, you are going to be ready to race your first 5K. It is always good to get a few tips from seasoned runners. Here's some advice from the readers and runners over at Runner's World: Sign up! You can't run a race if you're not there. Here is a race locator and you can surely find a 5K close to you. Eat Read more
I am always looking for inspiration and I found it recently in one fit and fast mom - Ceci St. Geme. Here's some interesting numbers on St. Geme: 17:30 - Her average 5k time, these days 6 - Number of kids she has - ages range from 8 to 19 44 - Her age 6 - Number of times she has appeared on the cover of Runner's World Impressive, right? Here's what she had to say in a recent interview with Read more
Happy New Year!!!!! It is finally 2007 and the new year always feels like a clean slate, a fresh start, a time to reshuffle the cards. Just wanted to let you know that there are a ton of fun runs happening all over the country today. My two favorites: The Hangover Classic 5K and 10K runs in Salisbury Beach, Mass. The event is sponsored by none other than Bud Light. The race doesn't start Read more
Still looking to do a marathon before 2007? Charlotte's Thunder Road Marathon (Marathon, Marathon Relay, Half Marathon and 5K) is this weekend on December 9th! From the time the green flag drops on the starters until the checkered flag falls on the final finisher (this race is race car themed), you will experience a unique race enjoying the sounds of music from the Southeast provided by local Read more
Just because the holidays are ending does not mean that you have to get out of the giving spirit. Did you get gifted a new pair of sneakers this year to help kick off your 2007 resolutions to be more fit? Don't throw out your old sneakers, donate them! One World Running is an international program promoting an awareness of health, fitness and nutrition by providing running shoes to those in need Read more
Fit Sugar is truly impressed with the new cross-training Lance Armstrong. He wanted to run the NYC Marathon in under 3 hours and he did it! At the finish line, however, he admitted it was harder than anticipated and although he did some training he was surprised by how difficult it was. Fit is all about setting goals and figuring out how to reasonably meet them - you don't need to start off Read more
