family running

Are You Addicted to Running?

running addiction

When is some­thing is no longer a hobby, an inter­est, or even a way of life – but an addic­tion? Can one be addicted to run­ning? Many of us use run­ning to escape. But can you take it too far?

A Tale of Two Races

Running the one mile fun run

Over the last two week­ends, my kids ran two dif­fer­ent fun runs. One was spon­sored and coör­di­nated by the local hos­pi­tal, the other was spon­sored and pro­moted by a school. One had healthy home­made foods, the other had a free cans of soda pop.

Run­ning – the new national pastime?

baseball

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 […]

16 Week Half Marathon Train­ing Plan

half marathon training

Half marathon train­ing for busy fam­i­lies Find­ing time to work out and run con­sis­tently when you have a fam­ily is chal­leng­ing. Find­ing time to train for a dis­tance event like a half marathon […]

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 […]

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

running fitness goals

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

Kids playing

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: […]

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 […]