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Category: Out There
Imagine, Train, Do: Sophie Hawley
Talk about your starting point. In the summer of 2011, I went to visit my sister in New York. Walking all over the city exhausted me, and I could barely handle the many stairs out of the subways. Just like at home; I was always winded at the top of our staircase. I was tired all…
Let’s Go Places
This commercial is for Toyota cars. But, the message of this ad could easily be applied to fitness and what we are trying to do at the Courthouse. We are trying to go places, reach goals, see and experience new things. We are trying to discover something within ourselves that we didn’t know was there.…
In Review: Worst Day For Spartan
96 people are packed into the lobby of the West Salem Courthouse. Some wear gloves and hats and years-old sweatshirts, pre-stained and ready for anything. The sun is beginning to break through dark clouds. The wind has died down and the rain is slowed to a sputter. The weather is decent, but this is the…
Out There: Nourished and Energized
The Courthouse Nutrition team meets in the back of the kitchen of the Wild Pear restaurant near the corner of State Street and Liberty Street in downtown Salem. The restaurant is closed and the dishwasher has just finished cleaning the last of the day’s glasses. Co-owner Jessica Ritter explains the best way to chop an onion as…
The Worst Day For Spartan
What can you expect at the first-ever Worst Day For Spartan? Expect everything and anything. Expect to be cold and expect yourself to rise above the wind and the rain and the unmistakable chill coming off the water of the slow-moving Willamette River. Expect to get a great workout with all of your friends. Expect…
Be Ready, Get Ready IV
The sun had disappeared and was replaced by bruise-blue clouds and a spattering of stars by the time I crossed Wheatland Road and began running back to Keizer. I began the run from my front door, eight miles back, just as the rain clouds were beginning to move in and the sky was beginning to…
Fitness Is Fun
The people I work with genuinely have a good time doing what they do. I know it. I can tell. No one I work with at Courthouse Fitness is active or tries to stay healthy because it is good for them. They move and play and exercise because they love it. They do it because…
Tri4Kids: In Review
Over 120 kids lined up at the south end of the outdoor pool at the West Salem Courthouse. Their parents and grandparents, cameras up and ready, stood on the other end. The sky was cloudy and white and the air was warm. The kids jumped on their toes and crossed their arms and giggled. Some…
Fitness and Freedom
Listen to what people talk about when they talk about fitness. When you begin, you may only hear the familiar vernacular: losing some weight, gettin’ back at it, back in shape, back to looking good and feeling a little better. But listen a little closer, ask a few more questions, dig a little deeper and…