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My Nordic Walking Wish List
Encouraging the growth of Nordic Walking takes cooperation as well as creativityEarlier this week, I participated in a telephone conference with an ad hoc steering committee for Nordic Walking North...
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Promoting Nordic Walking Two Poles at a Time
Grassroots efforts can spur the growth of Nordic Walking In her blog, Twin Cities Nordic Walk This Way’s energetic Rhea Kontos wrote: “The [Minneapolis] Star Tribune reported that Dakota County Parks,...
View ArticleInternational Fitness Week, February 1-7, 2010
Good idea, but no North American and not always Nordic Walking International Fitness Week is scheduled for February 1-7, 2010, and while it is multi-national, it is hardly global. Promoted by Fitness...
View ArticleTop Walking Trends of the Decade
Nordic Walking makes a “trends” list, but with reservations Wendy Bumgardner, who writes about walking for About.com, cited Nordic Walking as one of the top walking trends of the decade, but with a...
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Hesitant Steps in Riverside and San Diego
Los Angeles exurb dips a toe and a pole tip into Nordic Walking. San Diego too The good news is that a free Nordic Walking demonstration has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 31, at the University of...
View ArticleA Note from Nancy Trock
Informal guest post from Illinois trainer I haven’t formally put any guest posts on this blog — mainly because no one has ever offered to write one. In a post about upcoming US Nordic Walking programs...
View ArticleForest Versus Trees
Considering what really matters in fitness walking with poles I have been following the impassioned and yet dispiriting discussion on the UK-based Nordic Walking eCommunity about whether Pacer Poles...
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147 Nordic Walkers in the Birkie Trek
Great Lakes Nordic Walkers reported that 147 Nordic Walkers participated in last weekend’s fourth annual BirkiTrail Run & e Trek in Wisconsin. The Trail run is a marathon, while the Trek is a...
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Pole Walkers on My Street
I haven’t added any posts in months, because I wasn’t seeing a lot of traffic — or a lot of interest in Nordic Walking. I was encouraged this morning. When I popped outside to pick up my newspapers, I...
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9-Day Walking Festival in England
The Brits really get the benefits and pleasures of walking (“tramping” as they call it in the country), and walking with poles is part of the picture. Here’s what the Staffordshire newsletter writes...
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