Posted by: Joe Nuss in Triathlon, Swim, Run, Off Road, Lifestyle, Endurance Events, Elite, Duathlon, Cycling, Charity, Beginner on
Feb 04, 2010
Our 2010 Event Guide is your road map for the upcoming season. From walks to ultramarathons to iron-distance triathlons and open water swims, we have packed more than 800 events into the current 2010 Endurance Magazine event guide. We thank all of those race directors who were able to submit their events to SPORToften.com to be listed in this guide. Not all events for 2010 are listed, as many race dates were still to be determined when we went to press with the print issue. Remember to watch for newly added events as well as possible date or location changes in upcoming issues of Endurance Magazine and at our event registration site SPORToften.com - the premiere regional event community resource.
Meghann Gunderman, Runner
By Joe Nuss
When Mick Gunter's mother, Karla Bolen Gunter, was killed in a car accident nearly 20 years ago, he was a senior in college and getting ready to start a tour of duty in the Marine Corps. While he hoped to eventually do something to honor his mother, a well-respected teacher, he fell into a trap of postponing his grief in order to deal with his immediate challenges.
By D.C. Lucchesi
Charlie Engle knows about maintaining momentum. As an adventure racer and ultra-distance athlete, you can't run across the country or another continent without being able to keep your focus on a finish line that could be weeks or even months away. But one of this Greensboro resident's current challenges may never have a finish line: maintaining the public's interest in H20 Africa, the charitable component of his historic run across the African continent. Even in the heat of summer training and racing in the Carolinas, the lack or absence of water is never a consideration. But to many in the heart of Africa, it is a striking reality. Engle's epic run and Africa's enduring water crisis are documented in the new film Running the Sahara. The film, narrated and produced by Oscar-winner Matt Damon, is being showcased primarily at major marathons until the end of the year. An advance screening in Charlotte gave us the opportunity to talk to Engle about the film and the effort to access water in Africa.
Posted by: Joe Nuss in Cycling, Charity on
Mar 26, 2009
Story By Joe Nuss & Cover Photo by Tamara Lackey
Side by side and shoulder to shoulder two young brothers holding basketballs lean casually against a bluish green playground wall in old photo. The camera-generated time stamp gives away the year as 1996, shortly before the Sain family received the earth-shattering diagnosis that their oldest son Aaron, wearing the white sweat-shirt in the photo, had a brain tumor.
Several years later, in another photo, Aaron stands ankle-deep in foamy surf while his younger brother Brian, now a bit taller than him, holds a fishing pole with the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and most of Aaron's life now behind them. In 2005, Aaron died from the brain tumor that he battled for seven years - the full life-expectancy given to someone with his type of cancer.
Posted by: Joe Nuss in Run, Charity on
Mar 25, 2009
What better way to bring a family together than to train for a marathon?
hat's exactly what Bob and Peggy Jackson thought when they registered their family of five for last year's Nike Women's Half Marathon in San Francisco. On October 19, 2007, the proud parents watched as their daughters Melissa, Margie, and Mary crossed the finish line in the first race the entire family completed together.
"I started running marathons in my late 20s when the kids were young. My wife and the girls would follow me in the car when I was training and bring me drinks and snacks," Bob said.
Posted by: Joe Nuss in Cycling, Charity on
Oct 02, 2008
Mojo Rider Raising Money Madness -- Story Sam Scott, Photo by Bill Fehr
Michael Gibbons jumps into things. Four years ago he chanced upon the Charlotte Criterium, and the next week he was a newly minted cyclist.
Track Charlie as he runs across America.
Charlie is blogging each day and is even keeping us updated via Twitter (just get an account and you can follow him there) http://www.twitter.com/.
