PB Aid Station at Hospital Hill

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Join us to cheer on the KC running community and our own PB runners as they run the Hospital Hill Half on June 4th.

Meet at Broadway and Westport Rd. at 6:45 a.m.

We need a few items to make our aid station a success. If you can bring sliced oranges (pre-slice them at home), ice, a trash can with lined bag, a rake, or dust bin please let me know: kcrunning@hotmail.com

Hope to see you there!

StudioPB is COOL this summer!

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Stay cool at the studio this summer doing exercises that challenge and improve your agility, power, balance, core stability and upper and lower extremity strength!

Summer is the perfect time to start a strengthening program for your fall race(s). StudioPB classes are designed by a physical therapist especially for endurance athletes: cyclists, runners and triathletes. Quality of movement is stressed in these classes. Our early summer session begins this Sunday, May 29th.

Enrollment is open as long as space is available.

For more details and a class schedule click here!

Sometimes Finishing isn't what's Important

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Aaron and his brother share a Fargo marathon medal.

In Runner's 101, we teach runners to set a variety of race goals: three different achievable time goals as well as performance goals such as running an even effort or having fun. For all of us, one of these goals is almost always to finish. But sometimes course conditions, weather or some other variable out of our control gets in the way and its better to bow out and live to run another day.

This past weekend two PB runners attempted to run a humid marathon in Fargo. Carl got lost and succumbed to blisters and Aaron became confused as he suffered from dehydration. His brother took him off the course at twenty miles and completed the last six miles for him. Now they share a medal as an impromptu relay team.

Both Carl and Aaron listened to their bodies and ran with dignity. I'll be adding running with dignity to my list of race goals. Congrats Carl and Aaron!

PB Tornado Relief Efforts

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photo by Urbancn

As many of you know, I am a physical therapist and graduate of KU Medical Center. My Alma mater is serving as a collection site for the tornado victims of Joplin, Missouri.

PT Students are in Joplin now assisting with search and rescue. They currently report that they need: chain saws, gloves, bottled water, blankets, 5 gallon buckets, fruit, baby formula, breakfast bars, basic toiletries, pillows, and towels.

The American Physical Therapy Association has pledged to match the financial gifts donated to the BSU PT student's working in Joplin.

If you'd like to help, please bring your items to the run this Saturday! If you can't go to the run, you can arrange a drop off at my home. To do so contact me at kcrunning@hotmail.com. I will be delivering items to the med center next week.

If you'd like to donate money and have it matched by the APTA, write your check to the Southwest Baptist PT Program and bring it to the run on Saturday or mail it to me: 6608 W. 102 Street, Overland Park, KS 66212.

Thank you for your help!

Send in your questions for ultra marathoner, Mark Wardian

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photo by Chris Rief

Personal Best has been granted an exclusive interview with elite ultra runner Mark Wardian and we need your questions!

Mark Wardian is part of the North Face Global Athlete team and will be running the 50K race at the Kansas City North Face Endurance Challenge in August. Mark is an ultra marathoner who runs 50K and 100K events. He is most notable for the sheer number of marathons that he runs. He just won the Delaware marathon in 2:25:11.

Like Personal Best, Mark embraces the fun in running. He has held several world records including the fastest marathon on a treadmill and just recently was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as fastest man in a superhero costume. Click here for more on Mark.

So, what do you want to know??? Send in your questions to kcrunning@hotmail.com. The sooner the better!