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Watch video of the 2009 Chattanooga Mountains Stage Race

View a canopy tour, Southern style.

Watch a clip of the documentary about Suprabha Beckjord at Blueridgeoutdoors.com.

No: 47%
Dogs should absolutely be on leashes when they’re on public lands. Sometimes I think the length of the leash needs to be pointed out to some oblivious dog owners. More than once I have been running on a greenway and had a dog on a 20-foot leash dart across the path in front of [...]

54-Year-Old Suprabha Beckjord Runs 3,100 Miles Around Same Block
D.C.’s Suprabha Beckjord is the only woman ever to enter and complete the Sri Chimnoy Self  Transcendence 3,100 mile race in Queens, N.Y., the longest recognized race in the world. A new documentary, The Spirit of a Runner, details Beckjord’s journey to this unlikely record, showing audiences [...]

Biscuit Run—1,200 acres located in Albemarle County just south of Charlottesville’s city limits—was slated to become the largest planned residential development in the county’s history with 3,100 new homes. The state scooped up the idyllic swath of forested land—with the Biscuit Run stream as its centerpiece—for the bargain price of $9.8 million from developer Forest [...]

Think that bundle of joy will ruin your running habit? Think again. According to a 2007 study published in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, walking or running with a stroller burns 18 to 20 percent more calories than walking or running solo, even on flat ground. A Texas A&M study found similar results [...]

VO2 Max is the measurement of the maximum rate at which an athlete’s body is able to consume oxygen. In other words, it puts a quantitative number on how hard you can breathe. A high VO2 rate has a direct correlation with distance-running performance. The higher your VO2 max, the faster you can run long [...]

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Watch photographer Skip Brown stand-up paddle the Potomac and hang glide over the Chesapeake.

Watch Green River Race champ Adriene Levknecht’s sub-five minute performance.

Watch one family’s take on the all-night action at last year’s 24 Hours of Big Bear.

Danny Barnes demonstrates his digitally enhanced banjo experiment dubbed “Folktronics.”

Carolinas: 46%
I think bigger is better. North Carolina has the highest peak in the Eastern United States with Mt. Mitchell, and the accompanying Black Mountain range has 18 mountains above 6,300 feet. The views from these great summits are spectacular and cannot be topped (literally) in the Southeast. North Carolina is a special place that’s [...]

Late in October, President Obama signed the 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, a massive package of legislation that invests $32.24 billion in our public lands. Much of that money will go to managing our existing federal lands’ infrastructure, but some cash has been set aside to expand our public real estate portfolio. Here are [...]