As an advocate of running and family fitness, I’m constantly scanning the news feeds for family friendly running news. Here are two newsworthy items that I thought were worth sharing.
No running in Mrs. Obama’s plan?
I, along with the rest of the fitness community I’m sure, applaud our First Lady’s commitment to fighting youth obesity. This [...]
Running in the Family is running a contest to select a high school student as our featured blogger
I was never much of a runner in high school. I only ran one season of Track my freshman year – and I didn’t do that very well. I didn’t really start enjoying running until after college. But [...]
This week’s Sunday USA Weekend newspaper insert contained a brief article entitled “How to sneak fitness into your children’s lives” (online version here), highlighting a book by Larysa Didio called Sneaky Fitness: Fun, Foolproof Ways to Slip Fitness into Your Child’s Everyday Life.
For some reason, the article troubled me as I was reading it, and [...]
Is it just me, or was running really a lot easier BC (Before Children)? Back in the BC era, there seemed to be so much more flexibility and time for running. But now that I’m in the AD era (American Dad), things are different. With dropping off and picking up kids from school, taking them [...]
