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Former Duluth resident Kara Goucher revealed she has a rare neurological disorder that affects her ability to run.

This is what dreams are made of.

Grandma’s Marathon weekend officially kicked off with the Essentia Health Fitness & Health Expo. The free event is open right now until 9 p.m.  Everyone can walk around and see what's new in running gear and other products.

It's Grandma's Marathon time again! ESPN 560 WEBC and Townsquare Media are proud sponsors of this world-class event, and we're excited to bring you live radio and streaming coverage from start to finish!

It's Grandmas Marathon week and if you are a runner looking for extra motivation, you can enjoy another great line-up of speakers this year.  All speakers will be in Duluth Friday, June 21 in Edmund Fitzgerald Hall at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. All presentations are free and open to the public.  Here is the 2013 line-up:

Whether it’s a race, our careers or our personal or professional goals, we all face finish lines of one kind or another. Reaching the finish line is not necessarily the reward, but rather, it’s the journey along the way and how we feel when we get there that is so rewarding. The Finish Line: Going the Distance in the Marathons of Life is about much more than running.

Every Memorial Day weekend, TV marathons flood our channels.  Whether it be military movies, popular cable reality shows, or movie marathons, it can make for a great weekend catching up on missed episodes of TV shows, or just being a couch potato.  Here's whats going on and what to watch.

The weather hasn't been the best of friends to organizers and mushers with the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon and this year it has forced a later start.

The North Shore Inline marathon takes place tomorrow and there are several road closures you should be aware of.  Some of the road closure take effect this evening at 4pm:

Someone asked me when Kara Goucher, our hometown girl and marathon runner would compete.  Here's the details so we can cheer Kara on to a win for USA!

I know, I know!  Who the heck wants to run the day after you've run a marathon, or even a half marathon?  Honestly, that's what I use to think, I would be like "I can take the next week off, because I just ran 13.1 miles".  But, if truth be told, it does the body good and feels fantastic to get the "kinks" of those sore tight muscles out.

With our local Grandma's Marathon less than a month away, I have running on the brain.  Running and country music lead me to the Country Music Marathon in Nashville.  This year is particularly interesting to me because.....