Blog entries - October 2008

Energy Words

Joe Nuss — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Gu and Gatorade and PowerBars have long been quick energy fixes for endurance athletes. For a couple bucks a pop, you can energize yourself with some maltodextrin in it's various forms for a good 45 minutes until the calories are burned and you pop another gel or sip some more drink or take another chewy bite of a vanilla crisp energy bar. All of those energy sources are great products for endurance sports, but they hold little water to a much more cost-effective sourRead More...

Endurance Citizens - Ramblin' Rose Triathletes

Joe Nuss — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Endurance Magazine's Ramblin' Rose Women Only Triathlon Series wrapped up in October and capped off an amazing first year of our "green" initiative, "Race Without A Trace". All of the athletes who participated in the series, as well as the Carroboro Classic Endurance Festival, The Tarheel 10-Miler and Franklin 5000 helped contribute to a cleaner environment with respect to the amount of eRead More...

Breakfast: Your Building Block for Daily Nutrition

Joe Nuss — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

It's not an old wives tale, breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. A nutritious, well-balanced morning meal not only sustains your energy levels better than endless cups of coffee, but it also can help:

Boost weight loss efforts. Research shows that breakfast eaters are more successful at losing weight and maintaining that weight loss compared to breakfast skippers.Sharpen your mind. PeRead More...

GEAR REVIEW - Vibram Five Fingers KSO

Joe Nuss — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Vibram Five Fingers KSO - $80.00

If performance footwear existed twenty years ago when I was a private in the Marines, I didn't know about it. But, I did know an old gunnery sergeant who taught me how to make the most out of the gear I had with a few Read More...

Perspective Gaining at the Gas Pump

Mandy Beard — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Gaining and keeping perspective on "what is really important in life" is a skill that I am learning needs to continually be cultivated; gaining this perspective on occasion doesn't ensure its permanence. In fact, nothing is permanent. There are so many opportunities for getting micro in our lives - shaving seconds off our time for a PR; Budgeting to the dollar; Pretzel sticks or pretzel rods in lunches this week?; Shorts or running pants for my run this morning?; I said thiRead More...

Bailout Plan for the Endurance Athlete

Thys Wind — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The other day I was running through the quiet forest in Umstead State Park. With the leaves falling to the ground around me and the oxygen-rich air feeding my brain, I started thinking about the Bailout Plan. Not the one that we've all heard so much about on the news lately, but the one that you actually have some degree of control over, and one that has been shown to be absolutely 1Read More...

Race Without A Trace logo 2.0

Thys Wind — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Our "green" initiative, Race Without A Trace, has been a huge success this year. Stay tuned for some hard data on just how effective it really was with respect to the amount of event-related waste we saved/recycled and the extent to which we minimized our carbon footprint across the 5 events that Read More...

The Triathlete Rebel

Mandy Beard — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I have always been a rule-follower and as a child I worked hard to keep the peace in a household of 4 kids and many pets. So how come now, at age 35, is my own form of rebellion surfacing? And it comes out in such an interested disguise --as a triathlete rebel!

I love to run and my routine runs feed my soul. A few months ago I decided that it would be fun to expand my horizons and push myself to participate in Endurance Magazines three Ramblin'Read More...

Endurance Citizen

Joe Nuss — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

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.

"From the first day I got on the bike I loved it," he said.

But Gibbons' evolution into a 100 milRead More...

Protect Your Body!

Joe Nuss — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Apples have many nutrition benefits. They are low in calories, have no fat, and are high in both soluble and insoluble fiber. A study published in the September 2002 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that the flavonoids (plant pigments with antioxidant activity) found in apples may reduce the risk of many Read More...

Endurance Magazine wins National Excellence Award!

Steve Lackey — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 - DURHAM, NC - Endurance Magazine, the premier regional resource for healthy lifestyles, has been awarded the 2008 National Award for Editorial Excellence from the Association of Running Publications. Out of 34 regional publications across the coRead More...