Pooch to 5k
Running with dogs
It’s been a while since we’ve had a running buddy of the month. Meet Camo, an almost 2 year old Koolie mix from Queensland. Camo holds a special place in our heart because he was one of a litter of 7 orphaned puppies that came into our home when they were just one week old. It …
Mara and her Leonberger Cleah live in New York City. This is their story. It’s awesome. Pooch to 5k was a vital part of an effort to get in shape after a seven-year stretch of bad times–lot of deaths in the family–that had taken a toll on my body and mind. I’ve always been athletic, …
I was reading another running blog recently and I stumbled upon a few pictures of a beautiful red Stumpy Tail Australian Cattle Dog, Cooba. One of the pictures was of Cooba looking normal while a runner held a GPS unit in front of his face – distance of the run he’d just done: 74 km! …
Biskotouli lives in Greece with his owner Lloyd Godson and his family. His most recent claim to fame is that he ran the Athens Marathon under 4 hours! This is his story. My wife, Carolina, and I moved to Greece about 4 years ago and immediately started looking for a house and dog. On the …
This is a guest post by Vanessa Rodriguez from San Diego, USA. Vanessa is a keen ultrarunner and she is often accompanied by her dog on her training runs. Here she shares what she has learned about running from Ginger, and there’s a lesson there for all of us. My dog Ginger is more than …
Sarah and Kandoo live in Pennsylvania, USA and this gorgeous Border Collie is proof that you don’t need to be able to see or hear to be a great running buddy. “Blind and deaf? What quality of life will he have? He’d be better off dead.” That was the response I got many times over …