Family

Run­ning – the new national pastime?

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Run­ning Shorts posed an inter­est­ing ques­tion in a recent post enti­tled “How to make run­ning more pop­u­lar than base­ball.” Do you ever won­der why kids grow up want­ing to be Michael […]

Resources for Run­ning Moms

Mothers Day Pillow Fight

Happy Mother’s Day! Run­ning in the Fam­ily would like to wish all Moms, whether run­ning moth­ers or moth­ers of run­ners, a very happy, won­der­ful, and joy­ous Mother’s Day! All the wonderful […]

Sum­mer Run­ning Camps for Kids

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Here’s a selec­tion of youth run­ning camps that are worth check­ing out! These camps are a great way for your kids to have a lot of fun in a safe envi­ron­ment while improv­ing their run­ning and learn­ing about fit­ness with peers that share the same val­ues. And, believe it or not, there are kids run­ning sum­mer camps all across the country!

Kids’ Run­ning in the News

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 on vaca­tion at Dis­ney World

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Fam­ily vaca­tions to Walt Dis­ney World can truly be a “mag­i­cal” time. The folks at Dis­ney take extra effort to help cre­ate a lit­tle bit of magic for every­one. Even running […]

Stick­ing With Your Resolutions

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New Year’s Day was just a lit­tle over a month ago and, judg­ing by the increased avail­abil­ity of tread­mills at the gym, it looks like the New Year’s res­o­lu­tions are start­ing to slip. […]

Fam­ily Fit­ness on the Sly

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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: […]

Friends, Fam­ily, and Run­ning Santas

I just found out today that a friend of mine from col­lege was on the Rachel Ray Show because she and sev­eral friends decided to start a run­ning group dur­ing lunch at […]

When half the dis­tance is good enough.

The hope After we fin­ished a won­der­ful shrimp and risotto din­ner this evening, my wife said, “You should go to the gym tonight.” I was feel­ing rather full, but it was my […]

Hol­i­day greet­ings from Run­ning in the Family

Yes, the Christ­mas sea­son is upon us. I hope you have the oppor­tu­nity to use this won­der­ful time of year as a chance to con­nect with fam­ily and friends, and to reflect […]

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