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90 Second Escape: Fall’s fading light
Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a…
Continue Reading +90 Second Escape: Window Falls at Hanging Rock
Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a…
Continue Reading +Your weekend: Make fall a labor of fun
Labor Day has come and gone, the summer with it. Now, we get down to the serious business of fall fun in North Carolina! Coast | Coastal Plain There’s something romantic about an open-water swim in the ocean: riding the swells, being buoyed by the salt water, sharing space with all manner of aquatic life. Yup, it’s romantic, all right. Until you’ve done it and realize what an incredible challenge…
Continue Reading +90 Second Escape: Scenes from a hike: A Prelude
Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a…
Continue Reading +Your weekend: Go (run) and jump in a lake
Labor Day weekend — the last hurrah of summer. Make sure you make the most of it. Coast | Coastal Plain Any event of athletic endurance should end with a flourish. Few end with the flourish of the Go Jump in the Lake 5K, 10K and 15 K in Boiling Springs. The course is mostly around Spring Lake, site of a summer triathlon known for its heat. It’s not likely…
Continue Reading +90 Second Escape: A Jump on Fall
Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a…
Continue Reading +This weekend: Let’s race!
There’s a run for everyone this weekend in North Carolina: for the novice, the mountain distance runner, the hash harrier — even the runner who doesn’t like to run. Coast | Coastal Plain Since the advent of hashing in the ’90s (yes, the concept originated with bored British offers and expats in Kuala Lumpur in the late 1930s), we’ve been intrigued by how it works to mix running with beer….
Continue Reading +This fall, let GetGoingNC empower you on the trail
When we launched our GetHiking! program three years ago, the goal was to offer fledgling hikers a supportive hiking environment and to expose more experienced hikers to new trails. Those remaining our overriding goals; we love hiking with you, and while we hope you love hiking with us, we realize that sometimes you’d rather hike alone, or perhaps expose less-experienced friends and family to the joys of hiking. That’s why…
Continue Reading +Yoga lubricates an active life
We get older, the joints stiffen, living an active life becomes more of a challenge. Consider these facts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: From 2010- 2012, an estimated 52.5 million US adults (22.7 percent) annually were told by a doctor that they have some form of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia. An estimated 49.7 percent of adults 65 years or older reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis from…
Continue Reading +Take a fall hike this weekend
That breath of fresh air you inhaled coming out of the house Monday morning — a breath devoid of hot, of wet, of recreational despair — convinced our GetHiking! crews that there’s no need to wait for fall in order to take a fall-like hike. Let’s do it now, our hike leaders declared. Or at least this weekend. So we will. This weekend, GetHiking! Charlotte, GetHiking! Triad and GetHiking! Triangle…
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