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Archive | April, 2011

28 April 2011 ~ 13 Comments

Selling Shame

Emilie wrote a post recently about Dove‘s Campaign for Real Beauty, posing the question if Dove is truly doing something to watch out for women’s well-being or just selling products. Then I saw a clip on The Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert spoke about a new deodorant from Dove, their Go Sleeveless deodorant.  This stuff [...]

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26 April 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich (Book Review)

Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss and a Record-Setting Run Across America by Marshall Ulrich Foreword by Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run When I was asked to be part of the virtual book tour for ultramarathoner Marshall Ulrich’s book I was really excited.  I had heard about Mr. Ulrich’s missing [...]

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25 April 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Review: One Good Earbud

One Good Earbud is a fantastic product to improve the safety for runners/cyclists who want to listen to music while still being aware of their surroundings.

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23 April 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Team Challenge – 2011 Napa to Sonoma #5

Group Practice #5 4 miles on the schedule Start time: 7:00 AM This week’s practice started off with our update on fundraising: Team Vegas has now raised over $35,000 this season. We’ve had some people doing some huge fundraising! Plus there are a few people that have finally gotten on the fundraising board this past [...]

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19 April 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Free FinishSafe Tags!

It always makes sense to take some safety precautions in life… while running especially.  We’ve all heard the scary stories of people being hit by cars, attacked or getting seriously hill when they are alone.  I’ve had a car full of drunk guys pass me once and throw a glass bottle out the window at [...]

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17 April 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Weekend Recap

Team Challenge This weekend I had to miss my Team Challenge group training, but I was contributing to a worthy cause… a Relay for Life event to raise money to fight the evil cancer!

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