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WONDER WOMEN (These D.C.-area sports groups have a female focus)

By Jeremy Shweder

(This article first appeared MetroSports Washington Magazine, September 2005).

At this year’s New York City Marathon, the top women’s finisher will walk away with $130,000, which is $30,000 more than the first-place man.  By all accounts, this will be the first time that a woman takes home a bigger guaranteed prize than a man in any major sports competition. 
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Beginner's Guide to The Outdoors
By Graham Averill & Jeff Ferris
(This article first appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors, August 2005).
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GET OUT / Hire A Running Coach
By Matthew Graham
(This article first appeared in The Washington Post, Sunday Source Life & Leisure, Sunday,
March 20, 2005).

I’ve always hated running.  Sure, I love biking, hiking, skiing, skating and swimming, but ask me
to sprint, and I feel like my pavement-pounding feet are beating my body to death.  With warmer
weather finally approaching and a few winter pounds to lose, though, I thought I’d try jogging once
more.  Again ─ the agony.  Then it occurred to me (well, it actually came to my wife as I
complained) that I could be doing something wrong.  Maybe, she suggested, I should check in
with a running coach, an expert who could analyze and improve my every step.  But people just
get out and run, don’t they?  What more could there be to it?  Read more

Word of Mouth:  Start Right Fitness
By Kelly Bowers, Massage Therapist (January-March 2005 Newsletter)

This column allows me to highlight other small businesses that I think you might be
interested in.  These are businesses, like mine, that rely on word-of-mouth referrals. 
They may not be massage-related but I think they are businesses you just might want to
know about.

I enjoy staying active, though no one would mistake me for any kind of serious competitor. 
In the last 2 years, I’ve been working my way into running.  Since November, I’ve been part of a
program that has made the so much easier and so much more fun.  Read more

Take Risks
Twice a year, scores of women, from age 18 to senior citizen, in all shapes and sizes, gather
at Audrey Moore Recreation Center’s Wakefield Park in Annandale, VA, for the 12-week
Beginning Fitness Program offered by Washington RunHers, a club to promote women’s
running in the Washington, D.C. area.  The goal is for all participants to be able to complete
a 5k race at the end of the program.  The cost of the program is nominal.

“We’ve had a lot of women who suffered strokes who are just getting back into working out. 
Others are breast cancer survivors,” said Beginning Fitness and Big 10 program coach
Carla Gregor, a lupus survivor.  The group, she said, has a wide range of participants
including stay-at-home-moms who’ve just had babies, dieticians, lawyers, pediatricians
and police officers.

“It’s awesome,” Gregor said.  “I have women call me on the phone before the program starts
saying, ‘I’m overweight.  I haven’t exercised in 10 years.’  I say, ‘You’ll be fine.’ … 
We’re all females running.  It’s not competitive.  Everyone cheers everyone on.”  Read more

The Winding Road to Women's Fitness
By Jim Hage
(This article first appeared in the August 2001 issue of MetroSports Washington and is
reproduced here courtesy of MetroSports Washington).

It's difficult to be a woman runner. That's hardly news to half the population but may well
be for the rest of us. 

Aside from obvious physical limitations women face compared to their testosterone-
swaggering counterparts, society--even in egalitarian America--hardly smiles on the
female runner.  Read more