The Gate River Run is the largest 15K in the country and this year it’s the 40th anniversary of this iconic race. March 11th thousands will be toeing the start line to earn that coveted top 10% finisher hat. Will you be among them? 1st place Sports does an amazing job putting on this race! If a 15k isn’t in your racing plans there is also a 5k and a kids run … Read More
Wolfson Children’s Challenge 2017
For the past 4 years we have formed multiple teams of 11 people each to run the Wolfson 55k Challenge relay to benefit children we know that are battling/have battled life-threatening illnesses. This race touches our heart because of the amazing cause and how many can children that can be helped through the money raised. One of the kids we … Read More
Winter Beach Run
With Spring just around the corner I know many of us are looking to start racing again after some time off during the holidays. The Winter beach run held at the Jacksonville Pier is a great race to kickoff racing season. You can either do a 5mile or 10 mile beach run depending on how brave you are feeling! This … Read More
Ragnar Relay Alafia River Trail
The weeks leading up to Ragnar Relay Alafia River Trail were a little uneasy for me. I had injured my achilles and wasn’t able to train the way I normally would- in fact, I didn’t run at all for five weeks. I have a solid running base so I wasn’t TOO worried, but 32 miles (the distance each runner on … Read More
Diva St Augustine Race Recap – December 2016
I had a pretty busy race season from November through December but the one race I was truly looking forward to was the Divas Half Marathon in St Augustine. It is mainly a women’s race, A few brave men come out to run but they are far outnumbered by the amount of women out there. This is a race you … Read More
New York Marathon 2016
One of our biggest dreams was to run the iconic NYC Marathon and it was coming true. We were very unsure on how to run this marathon since we had been doing heart rate training and didn’t want to get too caught up in the crowds and exhaust our bodies too soon into the race. So, we decided to just … Read More
Heart Rate Monitor Training: Week 2
We have just wrapped up our second week of our Heart Rate training plan. I can’t tell if our bodies are slowly adjusting to it or if we have just succumb to the fact that we will be running at a snail’s pace fo r the next 8-10 weeks, but it didn’t seem as bad as the first week. We … Read More
Heart Rate Monitor Training: Week 1
After running for many years and the last year or so not really seeing improvements and our bodies feeling tired and beat up from running even with targeted runs at specific paces we decided to try heart rate training. With two big races coming up that we were not going for a certain time goal we figured this was … Read More
Q&A with Becky
1. I have been running since late 2013. It all started with a friend at work asking if I was interested in walking a 5k in 2012. My first thought was 3.1 miles is REALLY far!!! I completed my first 5k in just under 1hr. After that I was bitten by the 5k bug and wanted to see … Read More
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