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 Carla is featured in The New York Times, "A Few
Coaches To Help You Push It" by Abby Ellin
Thursday, August 30,
2007, Thursday Styles, page G10,
Click
here to read 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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more Beginner's
Guide to The Outdoors
By
Graham Averill & Jeff Ferris
(This article first appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors, August 2005).
Read
more 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 For
The Beginning Runner: The Run/Walk Program
By Carla
Gregor
(This article first appeared in
Women's Running Magazine, March/April
2009).
Many of my beginner runners like that I look….Read
more Ask
The Experts
By Carla Gregor
(This
article first appeared in Women's Running
Magazine, January/February 2009).
I know that running is the best way….Read
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