Adventure Race Tips
With more and more adventure/mud races popping up, I wanted to offer a few tips on what to expect. I would highly encourage you to try one if you have not done one before. It is an awesome day and will make for a day you won’t forget. Hope these adventure race tips will help [...]
Wounded Warrior Walk 2013
This weekend, Sigma Nu Fraternity at UAHuntsville will host the Wounded Warrior Walk, a 5K walk/run benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project. The 2nd annual walk will commence on the Saturday morning of April 20th. Fun for the Family Spend your Saturday by taking a stroll through UAHuntsville’s beautiful campus and help organizers reach their goal [...]
Time to Run
If you’re looking to run for something other than Easter eggs, there’s a couple of good events planned for this weekend and there’s also a special Tuesday race. Saturday Runs On Saturday, the Scottsboro Half Marathon starts at 8 a.m. at Goosepond Colony, 417 Ed Hembree Drive in Scottsboro. Over 400 runners will start the [...]
Free Rock Climbing Party
At Athletic Club Alabama we are passionate about rock climbing! We are so excited about our recent partnership with Peregrine Climbing Guides that we thought we would throw a party to celebrate! So, what exactly is a Free Rock Climbing Party? As a Healthy Huntsville event, think free climbing, free climbing instruction, free child care [...]
Youth Sports at the YMCA
If you’re a parent then you know what consumes most of your time… Your kids and of course we are all tickled pink to keep them entertained, but if your’re like me you look for sources of entertainment that provide more than a quick energy release. In our house we discovered Youth Sports at the YMCA, [...]
Roadrunner 5k
Nestled in a quiet neighborhood in South Huntsville, Weatherly Heights Elementary has been serving Huntsville for many decades. But this weekend, Weatherly Heights is doing something it’s never done before: hosting the Roadrunner 5K, a community race. Weatherly Heights Parent and Race Director Kristin Scroggin thought a 5K race would be a fitting fundraiser for the [...]
Ready to Run
Josh Whitehead and Dink Taylor again made the cities of Huntsville and Madison proud and displayed their talents for the folks in Birmingham to see. On February 16th, the 34-year-old Whitehead showed competitors in the annual Birmingham Mercedes Half Marathon why he’s one of the top runners in the South. He ran a time of [...]
The Rodeo Comes to Huntsville
Giddy up! The rodeo is coming to town! And by town I mean the Von Braun Center. And by coming I mean they’ll be here Friday February 1st and Saturday February 2nd. Here are my top 5 reasons you MUST go to the Sheriff’s Lone Star National Finals Rodeo this weekend. Reason #1: More is Better What’s better [...]
Brotherly Love
Most of us football fans understand competition. If you played the game, or any sport you know how competition drives sport. If you have siblings and have competed against them you know that’s about as personal as it gets. While it may never be ugly or harmful, it is one battle that no brother or [...]
Fat Tire Festival
If you ask me to define myself down to an activity, I would be hard pressed to say anything other than skiing. But about a year ago, I discovered that I can ALMOST get the same adrenaline high that comes with charging a downhill snow chute right here in Huntsville at Monte Sano State Park–on a Mountain Bike. [...]
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