Today is the last day to take advantage of our Birthday Membership Special Offer. Join the International Association of Women Runners today and take $25 OFF the price of your annual membership. You receive:
- Access to expert advice to help you run and race faster, further and more consistently, while avoiding injury
- “Top Sports Foods” handy reference guide from sports nutritionist, author and Association Faculty Member, Nancy Clark.
- Chances to win valuable prizes from Garmin and other manufacturers
- Up to $40 off on Garmin and Timex GPS watches
- Networking opportunities with other women who share your passion for running
And more! Membership Benefits – International Association of Women Runners
Enter Coupon Code BRTHDAY in the shopping cart when you register to claim your discount.
We look forward to you joining our community and providing resources to help you reach your goals for running, racing and a healthy lifestyle.
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The IAWR’s first year birthday was on June 7th. It’s hard to believe that one year has passed since we launched the Association. We feel privileged to have the ongoing opportunity to provide resources that help women derive greater benefit from their running and to help women achieve their running and racing goals through our newsletter, Association Membership and Personalized Coaching Programs.
Membership Special Offer
To celebrate, we’re holding a two week Membership Special. Join the IAWR by June 24th and take $25 OFF the price of your annual membership. You pay $112 instead of $137.
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Members have been submitting their “Funniest Running Stories”. The writer of the winning entry will win a Garmin Women’s Forerunner 110 GPS device (donated by Garmin) Forerunner 110.
This contest is open to IAWR Members. Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 10th
If we were eligible to enter the contest, we would submit “Why an Extra Rinse Cycle is a Good Idea”.
Why an Extra Rinse Cycle is a Good Idea
When I run with others, I do them and myself a favour by wearing clean freshly washed running clothes. I recall one particularly hot, humid Sunday morning run with several of my runner friends. We started out under an overcast sky. Dark rain clouds soon formed overhead. At the 8K mark, it started to rain steadily. After running in the heat and humidity, the rain felt refreshing and we continued our run, chatting away.
Soon afterward, several of my friends started to point and laugh at me.
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The International Association of Women Runners provides women runners the opportunity to participate in a unique worldwide organization linking women runners to an international women’s running community.
The International Association of Women Runners provides a valuable resource of information on training, nutrition, injury prevention and issues particular to women runners. Our articles and practical tips will help you achieve your objectives for running, racing and a healthy lifestyle – regardless of your age, experience and ability.
Did you know that in 2011, the majority of runners are women? There are women’s running magazines, women’s races and women’s running groups. Don’t you think that an International Association of Woman Runners is long overdue?
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We are pleased to announce the first annual IAWR Women’s Running Telesummit. This unique event will be held November 29th – December 2nd, featuring five presentations from guest experts over the course of four days.
You can phone in and listen to each presentation from the comfort of your home, office or car. And – registration is free!
Learn how to:
- Train more efficiently and effectively so that you can improve your running without spending extra precious time
- Practice optimal nutrition for performance and maintaining your ideal weight
- Prevent, diagnose and treat injuries so that you can avoid frustrating layoffs that derail your progress
- Improve your running performance as you age
Join other women who share your passion for running and discover:
- Practical strategies for busy women to carve out time to get in your daily run
- How the women’s running community is revolutionizing both the running industry and fundraising
And more!
Click on Women’s Running Telesummit to find out who is speaking and when!
We are pleased to announce that Kathrine Switzer has joined the IAWR as a Guest Expert. A true pioneer in women’s running, Kathrine is the most influential women runner to date. Not only was she the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, she also led the movement to have the women’s marathon included in the Olympics, created programs in 27 countries for over 1 million women and forever changed the world’s paradigm of women and running.
Each issue of the IAWR newsletter contains practical information that you can easily apply to get more from your running, racing and a healthy lifestyle. To start receiving our weekly email newsletter, click on info@iawr-connect.com and put your first name and email address in the Subject line.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kate Hays has joined the IAWR as a Guest Expert. Dr. Hays is a psychologist specializing in sport psychology and performance psychology. She founded the very successful Toronto Marathon Psyching Team; as a recreational runner, she is especially passionate about working with runners. In her sport psychology work, she focuses on both the mental skills associated with optimal performance as well as the mental benefits of physical activity.
Prior to her move to Toronto in 1997, Dr. Hays’ training and practice occurred in the U.S. northeast. Internationally recognized for her scholarship and innovative practice, she served as president of the Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology of the American Psychological Association and continues to maintain leadership positions in psychological organizations in both Canada and the U.S. Dr. Hays has authored five books as well as numerous chapters and articles on the intersections of sport, exercise, psychotherapy, performance psychology, and positive psychology.
Each issue of the IAWR newsletter contains practical information that you can easily apply to get more from your running, racing and a healthy lifestyle. To start receiving our weekly email newsletter, click on info@iawr-connect.com and put your first name and email address in the Subject line.
We are pleased to announce that Donna Deegan has joined the IAWR as a Guest Expert. Donna is a well-known journalist, philanthropist, and marathoner. A three-time breast cancer survivor she is the founder and president of The Donna Foundation, which funds the critical needs of underserved women with breast cancer. As an avid marathoner, Donna was inspired to establish the annual race 26.2 with Donna The National Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer. 26.2 with Donna is the only marathon in the U.S. that is dedicated exclusively to raising funds for breast cancer research and care. The fourth running of the marathon will take place on February 13, 2011 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Donna is a published author of two books. The Good Fight and most recently, Through Rose Colored Glasses, A Marathon From Fear to Love.
“The biggest difference, and what I hope people will take away from this book, is that you can separate fear from cancer, and you can separate fight from cancer and not only can you, if you do, I think you have a much better chance of doing well.”
Donna Deegan
Each issue of our newsletter contains practical information that you can easily apply to get more from your running, racing and a healthy lifestyle. To start receiving our weekly email newsletter, click on info@iawr-connect.com and put your first name and email address in the Subject line.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Cathy Fieseler MD has joined the IAWR as a Guest Expert. Dr. Fieseler is the Director of Sports Medicine for the Trinity Mother Frances Health System in Tyler, TX. She is a team physician for the University of Texas in Tyler, co-director of a primary care sports medicine fellowship and provides medical coverage for numerous local high school athletic activities.
Dr Fieseler is a regular contributor to Running Times (website and magazine). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Athletic Association and the Cancer Foundation for Life and served as the chairperson for the sports medicine committee of the Road Runners Club of America.
Dr Fieseler is passionate about running and has completed numerous marathons and a number of ultramarathons.
Each issue of our newsletter contains practical information that you can easily apply to get more from your running, racing and a healthy lifestyle. To start receiving our weekly email newsletter, click on info@iawr-connect.com and put your first name and email address in the Subject line.
We are pleased to announce that Jeff Galloway has joined the IAWR as a Guest Expert. Jeff has been a visionary and a leader in running for over thirty years. He is a former world-class athlete (1972 Olympian). He has written over a dozen books on running, including North America’s best selling running book “Galloway’s Book on Running”. Through his running schools, retreats, training programs, coaching and books, Jeff Galloway has coached over 1 million runners and walkers to their goals”.
Several of Jeff’s books are in our running library at home. Bennett had the pleasure of hearing Jeff speak in 1984 in Calgary. Jeff has had a tremendous impact on our commitment to helping runners achieve their objectives.
His first article for IAWR will appear in the Wednesday September 8th newsletter.
Each issue of our newsletter contains practical information that you can easily apply to get more from your running, racing and a healthy lifestyle. To start receiving our weekly email newsletter, click on info@iawr-connect.com and put your first name and email address in the Subject line.
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