By Claire Walter on April 28, 2013
A Facebook friend from Spain posted the clipping below of Queen Beatrix of Holland, age 75, with Nordic Walking poles. The newspaper refers to her as “princess,” but she has been Queen Regnant since her mother, Queen Juliana, abdicated in 1980. She in turn is abdicating soon in favor of her son. I don’t know [...]
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By Claire Walter on April 1, 2012
Wish a happy to the “First Lady of Nordic Walking” in the US My first peripheral introduction to Nordic Walking came in Switzerland in 2004, and my first introduction in the US was when Lindy Speiser, then with LEKI USA, was marketing this new-to-America, easy-to-learn, easy-on-the-budget outdoor fitness activity using specially designed poles developed in [...]
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By Claire Walter on March 23, 2012
Simon Beck creates magnificent patterns in the snow Artist Simon Beck snowshoes on the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, tramping intricate patterns in the snow. This is not a casual endeavor, but an effort to which he commits 5 to 9 hours a day as he creates large, outdoor and yet epehmeral pieces that typically are the size of three [...]
Posted in People, Snowshoeing, Winter | Tagged snowshoe patterns in the snow |
By Claire Walter on October 24, 2011
Nordic Walking by the numbers Following my recent post about the remarkable Gabriel Abraham and his recent Nordic Walking records for various distances, he contacted me and alerted me to the World Ranking Nordic Walking site. I probably was aware this site of at one point but had forgotten all about it. I’m glad that he reminded [...]
Posted in Competition, Europe, Events, People, Racing | Tagged Nordic Walking distance records, Nordic Walking records, Nordic Walking speed records |
By Claire Walter on October 22, 2011
Gabriel Abraham sets endurance records in walking with poles I recently learned about Gabriel Abraham, a Spaniard who broke absolute and M-45 Word Records of Ultra Nordic Walking st 30 and 50 miles. His Wikipedia entry alludes to his previous athletic career in “road running, track running and cross-country races.” He was born in 1966, so he’s no [...]
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By Claire Walter on August 27, 2011
Ed Urbanski, Certified Master Nordic Walking Instructor and co-moderator of Nordic Walking eNews, paid a visit to Colorado this week. We have been cyber-friends for some time, so I was delighted to get to meet him in person, and he was eager to meet Dave “Bigfoot” Felkley, whom he described as “my snowshoeing idol.” Easy to make that happen. Ed came to Boulder, and together we drove up the canyon to Nederland.
Posted in People, Seniors, Snowshoeing | Tagged Nordic Walking instructor, Snowshoeing |
By Claire Walter on June 10, 2011
Jayah Faye Paley came to Boulder — and we went for a walk The other day, I wrote a post called “Jayah Faye Paley Coming to Boulder” about the well-known and highly regarding pole advocate, personal trainer and mobility coach presentations in at REI in Boulder on Thuraday and group hike with poles in Rocky Mountain National Park [...]
Posted in Benefits, Boulder, Instruction, People, Trails | Tagged poles for mobility |
By Claire Walter on June 9, 2011
California personal trainer and mobility expert at REI this evening Boulder’s REI hosts a free talk this evening, 6:30p.m., on “Poles for Hiking, Walking & Exercise” with personal trainer and mobility expert Jayah Faye Paley. Through Adventure Buddies , she helps people get more enjoyment and fitness benefits from hiking and walking with poles, and through Poles [...]
Posted in Benefits, Boulder, Events, Pain Relief, People, Stores | Tagged Nordic Walking presentation, Nordic Wallking Talk |
By Claire Walter on February 25, 2011
Walking is good, but Nordic Walking could be even better On EmpowerHer.com, an Arizona-based website devoted to ”improving health and changing lives,” contributor Sandhya Reddy’s “The Many Benefits of Walking” told of her young teen’s son and his choice of activities when confronted either with diabetes or prediabetes (it wasn’t clear to me). She wrote: “A few years ago I was [...]
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By Claire Walter on January 8, 2011
Lori Clinch Adams follows Lindy Speizer Smith to Florida — differnt places, different reasons, but still teaching & leading Nordic Walking Lindy Speizer Smith, who as LEKI USA’s marketing mavenette helped put Nordic Walking on the North American fitness map, moved from Buffalo to Florida a couple of years back. I wrote about her leadership in [...]
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