Faster at Forty
Posted By:Â Eric Raygor After getting more serious about running in 2004, at the age of 33, I realized that I had a few years left that I could expect to improve on my performance, if I trained well and stayed healthy. I made it my goal to be “Faster ’til I’m 40″–to break a PR at some distance in each of the next seven years. For the first few years, this came easily to me, as I shaved seconds and minutes off of my 5k and 10k times. When things got more difficult, I added a one mile race–after all, a new...
read moreAll In the Family
Posted By: Janet Zwisler This is our 4th year of running the 5-man relay with a family team we called the Zwede’s – a combination of Ede and Zwisler family members. This year we have added a 2nd family team and called it the Ede’z. We’ve had such a great time we wanted to open up the field to more family members and a couple close friends. Our age group goes from 15 to 60, and this year 3 of us are taking on different legs and distances. We have a real combination of relationships, One Mother-Daughter, one...
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Posted By: Jennifer Monroe I began a weight loss journey at the end of September 2010. As I lost weight I began to incorporate exercise into my daily routine. In May, my youngest son wanted to run a 5k so I signed up with him. I could not believe the feeling I had when I crossed the finish line! It was great!! I was on such a high that I came up with the crazy idea of putting a relay team together for the Akron Marathon. The Akron Marathon is such a big deal that it was never an event I thought I would be a part of. Our team is using this...
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