Motivation

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 […]

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. […]

Win­ter run­ning — photo post

I’ve been doing a lot of tread­mill run­ning due to the cold weather and dark morn­ings and evenings. But today was too beau­ti­ful to stay indoors, even though it was only […]

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 […]

Zen fit­ness

I was talk­ing to two sin­gle friends at work who were com­par­ing notes with each other on their P90X fit­ness plan. They were going on and on about how much […]

The joys of win­ter running

Recently I wrote about how win­ter can be a great time for indoor cross-​​training for run­ners. But just because it’s cold out­side doesn’t mean you have to hide out inside for the entire sea­son. Win­ter is a won­der­ful sea­son for run­ning, as long as you are prepared.

Happy Thanks­giv­ing!

First of all, wel­come to Run­ning in the Fam­ily! This is a brand new blog focused on bring­ing fam­i­lies, run­ning, and fit­ness together. For the first post, I’d like to point […]