Duke nurses race to China (without leaving Durham, NC)

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Since early April, students, staff and faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing have been battling in a 9,000 mile virtual race from Durham, North Carolina to Wuhan, China. On the map tracing the race’s progress, the competitors are in Canada nearing the Arctic Circle. But, while the exertion …

Ripmaster: Taking on Alaska.

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Peter Ripmaster lives in Fairview, NC and is the owner of Black Mountain Running Co. in Black Mountain, NC. A 50 marathons in 50 states finisher, Peter has now been running ultra races for years of all distances from 50k to 350 miles. Next February 2016, Peter will attempt to …

What’s Racery

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We surveyed some of you, and 140 of you responded! We asked you how you  would describe RunWithMe and we loved your responses so much, we made a word cloud out of them!!! Top words? Virtual, Fun, Motivating (motivation, motivator!)

 

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Racery looking for a Virtual Race Manager

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Do you love helping people accomplish great things? We’re hiring a customer service people to help racers in Racery, a website where runners use real miles to compete in virtual long-distance races. To succeed, you’ll need: great communication skills a huge desire to see our racers and sponsors succeed a …

Murakami writes about running (and vice versa)

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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami started running because he hoped to become healthy and write novels long term.Murakami managed a jazz club in Tokyo and smoked sixty cigarettes a day. “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to keep fit and …