Pam LeBlanc column
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Last year's marathon rookies give advice to this year's first-timers
If you've never run a marathon, it's hard to know exactly what to expect. How will your legs feel at Mile 20? Will everyone else dash past, leaving you to inhale the dust kicked up by their speeding sneakers? If you do cross that finish line, how much time will have passed? Will you ever walk again, pain free? Actual marathon finishers seem to belong to their own secret club, a club with insider knowledge of what to do and how to act on race day.
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Mountain bikers get a taste of slick rock riding in the Hill Country
Cranking a bike up the grippy, sandpapery rock at Reveille Peak Ranch feels a little like pedaling across a lunar landscape.
- Music is love, according to Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli
- Partner exercises make staying in shape more fun
- Deep Eddy Pool getting a new bottom, decking and expanded beach entry
- Deep Eddy Pool getting a new bottom, decking and expanded beach entry
- My Fit Foods expands into area H-E-B stores
- Blowing through an intersection on a bike: Is it worth it?
- Restorative yoga puts the calm back in holiday season
- Reusable cups cut waste on the trail
- Sticking to an exercise routine during the holidays takes planning
- Trendy Bar Method promises to sculpt a dancer's body
- When you're injured, don't scrap the exercise plan
- Gifts for fitness buffs
- Take your workout outdoors
- Channel your inner cowboy in a mechanical bull fitness class at Travaasa Austin
- Some athletes hit their personal bests years after most racers
- Austin fitness bloggers finalists in national contest
- Athletes return to exercise after heart attacks
- Endurance athletes of the horse world train, compete just like human marathoners
- Fitness group is an outlet for Central Texans with lofty goals
- Exercise helps patients cope with Alzheimer's Disease
- In 'The Doper Next Door,' cyclist takes testosterone for a year to see how it changes his life
- Fall calendar includes swimming, yoga, running, adventure races and more
- 6-year-old gears up for Mamma Jamma Ride to support breast cancer patients
- Benefits of yoga stretch beyond flexibility
- Self-defense skills can help women avoid attack
- Keep water safety in mind when you head to the lake this Labor Day
- Stay safe on Lady Bird Lake by following basic safety rules
- Fit city: Team training
- Former tennis star Dennis Ralston tackles painkiller addiction, doesn't let amputation hold him back
- Art project is making splash at Deep Eddy
- Gilbert's Gazelles travel to coach's homeland of Burundi
- Team Ride Red pedals 3,000 miles across country in Race Across America
- Sky Candy Austin offers circus-style workout
- Austin's low-water crossing lures with cold water
- Stroke can't keep Gene Stouder from climbing to high point of 49 states
- Underwater treadmill could help runners cross train, prevent injury
- Cool facts about sweat
- The Zen of Rowing: Athletes drawn to the river early in the morning
- Cryochamber: More comfortable than an ice bath, but does it work?
- Michaels' muscle motivation comes from within
- On the trail of common courtesy
- Documentary focuses on teen-ager as it looks at national childhood obesity crisis
- City's summer swim team program gives kids a taste of competition, lots of fun
- Lance Armstrong's alter ego tweets about triathlon training
- Austin fosters growing cycling community with infrastructure, events
- Four-time cancer survivor Mike Thompson sets sights on Ironman Texas
- Austin eyes San Antonio's bike-share program
- Looking for a cool workout? Hydrobike Lady Bird Lake
- Riff Raff: Exercise group's drill: Hard training, happy hours, then happily ever after
- Rivalries left behind
- Death on Dallas trail sparks concern about safety of Austin's trails
- Creator of Rock 'n Roll marathon series starts new 10-mile race in Austin
- LiveStrong at the YMCA helps cancer survivors get fit again
- Running couple marries amid Austin marathon
- Pedal Hard Training Center in the basement of Mellow Johnny's bike shop helps cyclists hone road skills
- Marathon for the masses
- Forget fingers, feet make better massage tools, therapists say
- Tough Mudder participants tackle Rambo-esque challenges
- Get real: How to cram fitness into an over-packed schedule
- Austin runner Leo Manzano sets sights on London Olympics
- Get on a fitness streak in 2011
- Team Ride Red to pedal across the country to raise awareness about heart disease
- The ins and outs of exercising in cold weather
- Woodward at Copper's indoor ski hill helps train budding trick skiers
- Trio runs from Boston to Austin for charity
- Fit City: Fitness-themed gifts for the athletes on your holiday list
- Jamie Schanbaum, who lost limbs to meningococcal septicemia, learns to ride bicycle
- Man's best friend can be your best running buddy
- Cyclist Levi Leipheimer forgets the misery of Leadville, wants to do the mountain bike race again
- Backpackers take desire to go light to new heights
- Hike into the Grand Canyon and back in a day raises money for ovarian cancer awareness
- Texas bike makers gather in Austin for custom bicycle show
- Kinesiology tape offers stretchy support to sore muscles
- The newest high school sport? Mountain bike racing
- Grumpy goose stalks runners on trail around Lady Bird Lake
- Salsa on steroids: You don't need a partner to dance to a Latin rhythm in a Zumba class.
- Picking an energy bar: Taste versus content
- Brandon Perea jams it up at the skating rink
- Drowning doesn't look like what you think
- Community Yoga Austin brings yoga to prisoners, seniors and at-risk children
- Mountain biking in Breckenridge: How does it compare to Austin?
- Moonlight Margarita Run helps fund trail improvements
- Spelunk in the raw abyss of Kickapoo Cavern
- Trail running: Less impact, more fun than road running
- Friends of Big Bend pitch in to improve park
- Diabetes doesn't slow down pro golfer Kelli Kuehne
- Rains bring crowds, trash to Barton Creek Greenbelt
- It's gut check - and body check - time at Rollergirls practice
- Two wheels and four paws: Cyclist rigs platform for his dog
- Female paddlers tackle World's Toughest Boat Race
- Texas 4000 gears up for long ride to Alaska
- Triathlons are a family affair for the Scotts
- For faster running, learn how to fall forward
- A slew of women's triathlons on tap for Austin athletes
- ACTIVE Life aims to get people moving
- Bike Month: The perfect reason to start cycling to work
- Good Water Trail around Lake Georgetown makes a challenging day hike
- Texas River School introduces students to the pleasure of paddling
Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, 12.18.11
Zilker Holiday Tree, 12.05.11
Capitol Tree Lighting and Downtown Stroll
Blue Genie Art Bazaar, 11.29.11
Out & About Rewind, 11.28.11
Readers' Halloween costumes, 10.31.11
Halloween on Sixth Street, 10.29.11
Screams at the House of Torment
Dia de los muertos makeup demonstration
Zombie make-up how-to guide
Old Pecan Street Festival
Out and about rewind 090811
Designs from Austin Fashion Week
Austin Fashion Awards at ACL Live, 08.27.11
Graffiti Art Show at Pine Street Stati
Out & About Rewind, 08.23.11
Out & About Rewind, 08.16.11
Summer boat party, 07.27.11
2011 Keep Austin Weird Festival
A-List ROT Rally, Day 1
- Out & About Symphony of Soul at the Austonian
- Out & About Westlake High School's Son's Club -- 31 years later
- Digital Savant A map of all the SXSW Interactive 2012 campuses
- Austin Arts: Seeing Things Schematic design for Seaholm Substation Wall Art approved; Colored lights added
- Out & About Philanthropy Day Luncheon at Hyatt Regency Austin
