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09.02.2009 1:42 pm

Poll: Do you prefer running on the road or the treadmill?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

First, runners, which do you prefer?

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Yesterday, I was at Athletic Republic in Frontenac…

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08.12.2009 11:32 am

Beetroot Juice : A new wonder health food ???

Special to the Post-Dispatch

When I first saw the article on beetroot juice improving the ability to exercise my dyslexia kicked in and I wondered how a bio-exorcist ghost named Beetlejuice( (Betelgeuse), from the 1988 film starring Micheal Keeton  as the thoroughly unpleasant  and scary apparition,…

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06.01.2009 1:43 pm

Chocolate milk helps overworked muscles recover

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

FROM A PRESS RELSEASE ON A STUDY PRESENTED AT THE American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting.

James Madison University has found that lowfat chocolate milk provides muscle recovery equal and possibly even better than, high-carbohydrate recovery drinks with the same…

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04.17.2009 11:04 am

GO! St. Louis runners: Don’t let forecast psych you out

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

First off, good luck to everyone registered for this weekend’s GO! St. Louis Marathon & Family Fitness races. Let me say how proud and impressed I am that you’re going out there to test the limits of your body, be…

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01.14.2009 4:09 pm

Training for GO! St. Louis Marathon ramps up

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This just in from the folks at GO! St. Louis.

This Saturday, they’ll conduct the first of six free training runs in Forest Park. The training will help participants of all fitness levels train for GO! St. Louis races on the weekend of…

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12.12.2008 5:21 pm

Here’s one way to cut calories: skip the Gatorade

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There’s a growing segment of our population that is extremely fit. They spend hours each day training for marathons, ultra-marathons, Ironman triathlons and hundred-mile bicycle rides. Their bodies take a beating and rely on electrolyte drinks, energy gels and nutrition bars…

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10.30.2008 10:52 am

Training is over; the marathon looms.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This Sunday, at 10 a.m., for the second time in my life, I’ll embark on a 26.2-mile journey through all 5 burroughs of New York City. I ran New York in 2001, right after Sept. 11.

Training this past week was unnervingly…

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10.24.2008 6:42 pm

Nike finally declares fastest marathoner “a winner” & other tidbits

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Oddly, I just realized I can tie all these thoughts together because of a common theme — New York City. Read on.

Last week, a young New York City school teacher who clocked the fastest time at the Nike Women’s Marathon…

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10.20.2008 1:32 pm

Cindy’s Marathon Training: It’s a rollercoaster ride

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last week I fizzled out at about mile 11 of what was supposed to be a 20-mile run. About an hour later, I forced myself to go out and run an additional 4.5 miles for a total of 15.5 miles. I thought…

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10.18.2008 5:21 pm

Joggling Joe is fast, but not THAT fast

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yesterday, my story Not a regular Joe, he jogs and juggles at the same time, ran in the Eat Drink Live section as a preview to the St. Louis Track Club’s half marathon Nov. 2. I ran with Joe Welling one…

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