Runner of the Week – Jacqueline Newton
Runner of the Week Jacqueline Newton has dubbed this year the comeback year. After some serious injuries last year, she’s returning stronger than ever. How many of you have dubbed this your comeback year as well?
Running Goals for 2013 – 10k Goal Achieved
Earlier this year, I set a few running goals I wanted to achieve. The first would be to go under 40 minutes for a 10k road race. This past weekend at Creacent City Classic in New Orleans, I was finally able to get it done…
Runner of the Week – Michele Gonzalez
Runner of the Week Michele Gonzalez was deployed to Baghdad in 2007 for a 15 month deployment, leaving her family behind. Michele said that with the stress and demand of the job, she turned to running…
Runner of the Week – Emily Toia
Runner of the Week Emily Toia once ran on a treadmill for 24 hours to raise awareness and funds for Autism. How amazing is that?
Runner of the Week – Michele Short
Michele was first inspired to start running when she joined Team in Training. Together, she and her team were able to raise $1.1 million…
Runner of the Week – Cory Eagerman
Runner of the Week, Cory Eagerman, was once all about rugby until he suffered a severe injury and decided to pickup running. This lead to Cory completing…
Runner of the Week – SkinnyRunner
Runner of the Week, Skinny Runner, is all about running and having a great time while doing it. When she isn’t falling in love with Ryan Gosling, she’s running 12 marathons a year…
Black Girls Run of Louisiana Takeover Atlanta for Inaugural Road Race
Recently, Black Girls Run groups from Baton Rouge and New Orleans traveled to Atlanta to join nearly 4,000 other runners from across the country for the Inaugural Black Girls RUN!/Drive to End Hunger…
Monroe Personal Trainer Takes Unorthodox Approach to First Ultra-Marathon
Adequate training for endurance races is a must for some runners but not for Tara Knight. Knight, who owns a cheerleading and tumbling gym and is a personal trainer in Monroe, took an unorthodox…
West Monroe High School Coach Visits Kenya
For a high school world geography teacher and cross country and track coach, a trip to Kenya to visit such sites as the Great Rift Valley while watching some of the world’s best distance runners train seems like the ideal educational vacation…
Team Red, White and Blue
We recently interviewed Red, White and Blue team member and veteran, James Buzzell, about the organization in order to better understand how they are helping our wounded veterans and how we can help…
