When the Charlotte Marathon rolled through town last November, I was brand new to the Queen City. Still, I laced up my shoes and ran the half marathon. I didn't train on the course, was unprepared for the hills and hardly knew a soul at the start line. That morning, driving in the pre-dawn darkness to an unknown parking deck, warming up by myself, running by myself and crossing the finish line by …
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Make it STICK—Four Steps to Finding a Routine and Sticking With It
Kristi Thompson looks forward to waking up for her 6 a.m. Hustle class each morning in Cary, NC. If you told her seven months ago that she would have the energy and the drive to wake up at the crack of dawn every single weekday, workout for an hour, get her three-year-old daughter off to day care and herself ready for work by 8:30 a.m., she would have laughed at you. Why? Because seven months ago, …