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If you’re like me, an animal lover as well as a runner, you might be interested in these upcoming races. All benefit a local humane society or animal shelter, and some allow you to run with your dog.

• Humane Race - A 1 mile or 5K race to be held in Williamstown, MA on May 4, 2008 to benefit the Berkshire Humane Society. You can run/walk the race either with or without your dog.
• Dog Jog & 5K Run - A benefit for the Richmond, VA Society for Prevention of Cruelty for Animals, to be held on March 29, 2008. 1 mile and 5K races will be held, but dogs are not allowed to run with you in the 5K.
• The Furry Scurry - This race is held in Denver’s Washington Park to benefit the Denver Dumb Friend’s League. It’s a 2-mile race, and you are permitted to run with one dog.

If you know of another similar race in your area, please leave a comment telling us about it.

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This week’s links involve running while [...]. For me, running by itself is enough of a challenge, but the people I’ve highlighted below seem to have taken the sport in entirely new directions. Enjoy!

Joggling

A lot of you have probably heard of ‘joggling’ - or juggling while running. It doesn’t seem to be just a parlor trick either - some of these jogglers are pretty darn fast. Here are links to a couple of joggler’s blogs:

• Just Your Average Joggler - Good information for anyone that’s interested in juggling, running marathons, or combining the two.
• The Blogging Joggler - The blog of Michal Kapral, who holds the world record for the fastest marathon while juggling three objects (2:50:09).

Free Running

Are you familiar with ‘free running’? Basically, involves incorporating various acrobatic feats into your running, such as jumping off and over obstacles, flips, running up walls, etc. It looks very fun, but also quite dangerous!

Here’s an extreme running video I pulled off YouTube for your viewing pleasure:

Knitting While Running

Finally, something I might actually be able to do. At the 2007 London Marathon, Susie Hewer set a world’s record for the longest scarf knitted while running a marathon (1m 20cm). Susie isn’t combining two of her passions just for the fun of it - along the way, she’s also raising money to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Check out her blog, Extreme Knitting Redhead, to find out how to support her fundraising efforts.

Apparently several other world records were also set at the 2007 London marathon - read more about this at the Guinness World Record site.

Hope you all are having a good weekend - I’m going to try to get back to running today after my injury timeout, so wish me luck!

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