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Category: Out There
Tri4Kids
On Saturday, September 29th, Courthouse Fitness and The Boys and Girls Club will be hosting the first-ever Tri4Kids youth triathlon. You can register your child/children HERE. $30 gets your child the race and a Tri4Kids t-shirt. The course is built and is limited to children ages 6-12. You can find start times and course distance…
Get Ready, Be Ready III
Band of Horses, a great Seattle band, once sang “the world is such a wonderful place.” I think they were thinking of the Great Pacific Northwest when they wrote that line and I think they think of it every time they sing it in three-part, country harmony. I and five of my friends started the…
C2V 5: In Review
It was record-breaking. It was expectation-breaking. It was more awesome in more ways for more people. It was the C2V5 and it made awesome happen. It was fun. It was fitness. The C2V is taking off. According to Lesli Venti, it becoming a Salem institution. 141: that is how many wonderful Salemites signed up and…
Imagine, Train, Do: Andrea Downard
On Monday, August 13th, Andrea Downard (Club Dance Instructor) and Scott Bushey (General Manager at Keizer), along with others, drove north from Keizer to the base of Mt. St. Helen’s. “We left at 10PM and hiked through the night,” Andrea told me. “We wanted to be on the top as the sun was rising. Earlier…
C2V: Five
So, I hear you want to do something awesome. How interesting. Because I have something awesome for you to do. You may have heard of it. It is called the C2V. C2V stands for Courthouse to Venti’s. Each event begins at a Courthouse Fitness location and concludes at either the Venti’s Cafe downtown or the…
Out There: Running Buddies
By Laurie Miller Not long ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a great program started by teachers Julie Cleave and Jessica Hoffmeister at Hallman Elementary School. It was called Running Buddies. Running Buddies paired women in the community with 4th and 5th grade girls at the school. We had talks on healthy habits…
Rugged Togetherism II
At mile 45 of the Mt. Hood 50 Ultramarathon, the single-track trail descends back to the road where my brother Drew and I began the race that morning. Shade kept us cool from the afternoon sun and the water from the aid station behind us kept us hydrated and fresh. Drew looked at me and…
Launch Week: The Event in Review
At Wallace Marine Park in West Salem, over 100 people gather to do something. Some show up to walk with their families and friends. Other arrive to ride their bikes through the clear and light air of a mid-summer’s evening. Others decide they want to define intensity and try Spartan in the Park. Still, others…
The Event
Imagine, train, do. Those are the words you have been seeing around the Courthouse for the last year or so. As we have shared this vision for our members, our staff, our community of fitness-seekers, we have found how fitting these words are. There is a rhythm to our fitness, our goals, our ambitions, our…