Embrace Spring- Try an endurance event for charity!

Do you need something to push you beyond your limits?  Make you do something you never thought you could physically do?  How about doing a 10-mile hike?  Walking a marathon (that's 26.2 miles)?  Running a marathon?  Walking a half-marathon?  Over the past few decades there has been a growing trend in charity endurance training.  Many major charities now have training teams across the country that will take you from day one to the end of the race and beyond! 

Here's how it usually works.  You agree to raise a certain amount of money for the charity, and they agree to train you to complete an endurance event.  But you're not alone! You and dozens to hundreds of others will train together every week with coaches.  Usually they give you a schedule and you train with the team once a week for long distances and you do smaller ones on your own during the week.  It's a slow, safe build-up to your event.  The charity may also give you training in sports nutrition, shoe fit and even training clothing.  These programs are usually very well run and provide excellent support for you every step of the way. 

Charity endurance training programs are a great way for plus size people to embrace fitness and make a permanent change.  There are also quite a few plus size women that participate!  Unfortunately, chances are that when your team visits the running store to hear a talk about proper shoe fit or nutrition, you will not be able to buy any of the clothes in that store.  You will be relegated to the shoe department or the sports drinks and water bottles.  No only do they usually not carry plus size active wear, running clothes usually run small!  This is how our company founder was inspired to start this store.  She participated in a charity endurance event and as a plus size person and could not wear the clothes made for runners in the running stores.

Check out some of the charity endurance programs like the Arthritis Foundation Joints in Motion Program, the Lukemia Foundation, AIDS Foundation and others by looking at our fun stuff and customer comments page!  Just scroll to the bottom.  Finally, we offer a discount to participants in major charity endurance programs.  If you join one please ask them if they list us as an affiliate, or if they will!

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--Sunshine