Things I dream of doing if the temperature ever gets above 60 again … Run in shorts. I having nothing against running tights and I’m not an exhibitionist. But you can’t truly appreciate the freedom running offers unless you’re in shorts and a sweaty t-shirt. (And, to a growing number of runners, no shoes.) Paddle Brice Creek. I’ve yet to paddle Brice Creek. Yet every year around this time, about…
This is the third in an occasional series on seemingly small acts of physical activity that can, over time, have a surprising impact on your life. So far, GGNC has looked at taking the stairs vs. the elevator and watching TV on an exo ball rather than hunkered down in a La-Z-Boy. Today: Avoiding the carpool lane. The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center’s National Center for Safe…
Since he was a kid growing up in Florence, S.C., Curtis Dobbins has had a thing for bikes. Riding them, naturally, and because he was an inquisitive lad, tearing them apart and figuring out how to put them back together. He began riding seriously in high school and found work as a mechanic in a local bike shop. He moved to Raleigh in 1981 to go to N.C. State and…
OK, it’s no “Race Across The Sky,” but hey, it’s our first venture into film. Check out GGNC Productions short on “Meltdown at Harris Lake: The Movie.” For more on the Meltdown, check out Sunday’s post on the 6-hour endurance mountain bike race, the third in TORC’s four-race winter series.
Enjoy this tease of warm weather; After Tuesday we’re back to highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s. According to Gary Sforzo, a professor of exercise and sports sciences at Ithaca College in New York, the return of cold weather shouldn’t deter you from exercising. “If you are concerned about hypothermia, you don’t need to be unless the temperatures are extreme,” advises Sforzo. “The body produces a lot of…
Scenes from Saturday’s six-hour Meltdown at Harris Lake endurance mountain bike race at Harris Lake County Park. A rush from the mush Recent snows, rain and cold weather (which keeps the trail from drying) have conspired to keep most mountain bike trails closed for the last month or so. That there even was a race Saturday was the doing of Amy Burke and her crew at Harris Lake. Race Director…
Follow live coverage of Saturday’s Meltdown at Harris Lake 6-hour endurance mountain bike race on our Twitter network, JoeAGoGo. Coverage begins 7-7:30-8ish and goes until about 4 or I have a coronary because I haven’t been on the bike for an hour — let alone six — in the last month. Promises to be one entertaining event, since the nearly 60 riders registered have been sidelined by the recent wet…
Twenty-seven people can fit into a trail shelter built for 12, sometimes you find Little Debbies tacked to a wall and they restore your faith in humanity, there are 165,000 blazes along the 2,178-mile Appalachian Trail . The things you learn when you think you’re going to buy socks and you stumble onto a seminar. Last night, I went into the Cary REI looking for socks. Instead, I found REI…
Raleigh will break ground in April on one of its most anticipated stretches of greenway: the 3-mile House Creek Greenway. Runners, bikers, distance walkers and other greenway enthusiasts have been especially interested in the greenway because it will link the 11 miles of completed Crabtree Creek Greenway to the east with about 14 miles of greenway running from Meredith College, over I-440 to the N.C. Museum of Art, then along…
If there’s anything approaching a guarantee in the world of greenway construction — a world in which delays are the norm — Raleigh’s chief greenway planner comes close to offering it. “We’re operating on a 4-year schedule,” Vic Lebsock says of the city’s most ambitious one-shot greenway program yet, the 28-mile Neuse River Greenway. Construction on the greenway began last week. When done — in 2014 — the Neuse River…