Celia Storey
Stories by Celia
Runs put racers between a Rock and a Rock
posted: 05/21/2012 2:16 a.m. Discuss
Memorial Day weekend’s almost upon us, which means it’s time once again for central Arkansas runners to think about the Easter Seals Rock Run 8K and Riverfest’s Rock-n-Stroll 5K.
Footrace’s awards not pie in the sky
posted: 05/21/2012 2:15 a.m. Discuss
When was the last time you ran so well that somebody gave you a homemade apple pie?
Extension Service offers workshops
posted: 05/19/2012 3:07 a.m. Discuss
Even if you can’t be outstanding in your field, you can stand out in a field at either of two workshops sponsored by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service.
Pedal power
posted: 05/14/2012 3:10 a.m. Discuss
Bike to Work Day will be observed — and observed and observed and observed and observed and observed and observed — Friday in central Arkansas.
Fit-Trail stops meet Internet
posted: 05/14/2012 2:58 a.m. Discuss
North Little Rock has installed an updated-for-the-Internet-Age reinterpretation of the Fit-Trail concept: six QR F.I.T. Trail stations.
Pedal clinic is just for girls in northeast corner
posted: 05/14/2012 2:50 a.m. Discuss
In Jonesboro, the Northeast Arkansas Bicycle Coalition will once again teach women about bicycles with a just-for-girls eight-week clinic.
Conway to celebrate cycling with friendship, food, prizes
posted: 05/14/2012 2:46 a.m. Discuss
Bicyclists in Conway can pedal for prizes and ride with the mayor this week.
Small McGehee is big on bike tourists
posted: 05/14/2012 2:45 a.m. Discuss
Destination: McGehee. For Kenny Gober and friends he’s collected by cycling around the state, the Delta town (population 4,219) might be a small place, but it’s big on hospitality. And it’s anxiously waiting to welcome bicycle riders this weekend for the annual Tour de Hoot.
Silent ride to Capitol to mourn the dead
posted: 05/14/2012 2:44 a.m. Discuss
Amid the bustle of their Bike to Work celebrations, bicycle advocates in central Arkansas will pause Wednesday to mourn the dead.
Extending a hand to the pedal deprived
posted: 05/07/2012 2:16 a.m. Discuss
At noon on Fridays, a bunch of middle-aged employees in the state headquarters of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service hop onto borrowed bicycles and practice pedaling around the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Bicyclists to show state what kinship looks like
posted: 05/07/2012 2:11 a.m. Discuss
May’s usual little parades for bicycle advocacy won’t be so little or usual this year.
Restless reader
posted: 05/07/2012 2:10 a.m. Discuss
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike by Grant Petersen (Workman Publishing paperback, May), 4/2-by-9-inch format, 224 pages, $13.95.
HOW COME: Crumb trail leads to bread in Japan
posted: 05/01/2012 2:37 a.m. Discuss
When was the last time you ordered a sandwich in a Japanese restaurant?
Getting hitched
posted: 04/30/2012 2:10 a.m. Discuss
Do modern Arkansans really need to know how to drive a team of horses? Hmmmm.
New workouts
posted: 04/30/2012 2:04 a.m. Discuss
Titles: Knocked-Up Fitness Prenatal Core Pilates Workouts and Prenatal Pilates-Infused Fitness, two DVDs in a combo pack with a yellow stretch band.
Night race in park to let the dogs bark
posted: 04/30/2012 2:01 a.m. Discuss
Run for fun or run for the dogs.
Scavenging for fun? Clues lead up hills and up stairs
posted: 04/30/2012 1:58 a.m. Discuss
A lot of quirky stuff seems to happen in Eureka Springs, not all of it planned for the delight of tourists. But a fun-looking game Saturday is an intentional effort to bring ’em running.
Perching on a Percheron is up-in-the-air high affair
posted: 04/30/2012 1:48 a.m. Discuss
Sheba and Stella, two draft horses employed at Historic Washington State Park, are Percherons.
No ‘grass belly’ for these horses
posted: 04/30/2012 1:47 a.m. Discuss
“A lot of people don’t understand how to feed a horse,” said Chris Brown, a park interpreter and animal specialist at Historic Washington State Park who has worked with horses much of his life.
Biking for Bigs rolls Saturday along river
posted: 04/23/2012 2:10 a.m. Discuss
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas wheels into the state’s growing peloton of charity bicycle fundraisers Saturday with its new event, Biking for Bigs.
April showers produce a torrent of 5K races
posted: 04/23/2012 2:05 a.m. Discuss
Runners checking the calendar for a nice little 5K this weekend will find 17 listed at Arkansasrunner.com.
Bike days are for Average Joe pedal-pushers
posted: 04/16/2012 2:06 a.m. Discuss
Before hordes of Spandex-encased, chiseled-jawed bicycle racers zip into Fayetteville for the April 26-29 Joe Martin Stage Race, area cyclists will celebrate Bike Fayetteville Days.
BioBlitz attendees to register nature
posted: 04/16/2012 2:05 a.m. Discuss
BioBlitz — is it a new dance craze?
Restless reader
posted: 04/16/2012 2:03 a.m. Discuss
Tone Every Inch: the Fastest Way to Sculpt Your Belly, Butt & Thighs by Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie (Rodale paperback, 2012), 326 pages with index, $18.99.
Work + fun at Devil’s Den State Park getaway
posted: 04/09/2012 2:46 a.m. Discuss
In spring a desk drone’s fancy turns toward vacation. Wherever shall we go to escape the dreary daily contemplation of our recession-haunted lot?
Monthly walkers step off new jaunt on sultry Monday
posted: 04/09/2012 2:42 a.m. Discuss
Why would you leave an air-conditioned office at 11:30 a.m. on a steamy Monday to walk briskly around a few blocks of downtown Little Rock in the company of a bunch of people you don’t know?
Restless reader
posted: 04/09/2012 2:38 a.m. Discuss
Camp Cooking in the Wild by Mark Scriver, Wendy Grater and Joanna Baker (The Heliconia Press, paperback, 2012), 208 pages, $19.95 The Paddling Chef, Second Edition by Dian Weimer (Fox Chapel Publishing, paperback, 2012), 185 pages, $16.95 Two books about cooking while camping? What if we only want to buy one?
Bike train engineers put safety out front
posted: 04/09/2012 2:34 a.m. Discuss
Safe Routes to School has compiled instructions and advice from bike train organizers in communities all over the continent. Advice can be found at guide. saferoutesinfo.org.
New workouts
posted: 04/02/2012 2:29 a.m. Discuss
Title: Core Fusion 30 Day Sculpt What’s the goal? Thirty 20-minute workouts using warm-ups and workout segments taken from four earlier exercise DVDs and remixed.
Festival No. 24 covers all things mountain bike
posted: 04/02/2012 2:25 a.m. Discuss
There’s more to mountain biking than just rocketing over trails to get where you’re going without breaking your neck. Mountain bikers also enjoy the journey.
Restless reader
posted: 04/02/2012 2:23 a.m. Discuss
Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line and Not Lose Your Family, Job or Sanity by Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea (Andrews McMeel Publishing, March), 214 pages, $14.99.
Kite season remains aloft in Benton, Siloam Springs
posted: 04/02/2012 2:17 a.m. Discuss
The American Kite fliers Association includes Arkansas in its Region 8, along with Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana.
Time flowing to register for white-water school
posted: 03/26/2012 2:29 a.m. Discuss
The rivers and creeks are running, and meanwhile, time’s running out to register for the Arkansas Canoe Club’s annual School of Whitewater Paddling.
HOW COME?: Hair-net rules rooted in disgust, not disease
posted: 03/20/2012 2:37 a.m. Discuss
We celebrate the glory that is hair — healthy, gleaming, lustrous. Piled high upon a lover’s head, the more hair, the better. We love it.
Conway bikers lure new folk with pizza
posted: 03/19/2012 2:40 a.m. Discuss
Sweet Sunday afternoons slip away much too quickly when you don’t have anything to think about except the oncoming inevitability of Monday morning.
Night disc golf in the park is a shot in the dark
posted: 03/12/2012 3:31 a.m. Discuss
Imagine playing disc golf as night spreads throughout a woodland park, with deep and then deeper darkness transforming every little glimmer into a beacon.
Willpower is like a muscle; it can be trained, overused
posted: 03/12/2012 3:25 a.m. Discuss
Here are some of the highlights of the American Psychological Association’s report “What You Need to Know About Willpower: The Psychological Science of Self-Control” : Willpower is the ability to resist short-term gratification in pursuit of long term goals or objectives.
Race attracts dogged runners
posted: 03/05/2012 3:37 a.m. Discuss
The Chase Race and Paws is different. Wait, make that “are different.” Saturday’s big running event in Conway is actually two footraces — a 2-miler for people and a 1-mile race for people and their pets.
New workouts
posted: 03/05/2012 3:36 a.m. Discuss
Title: Christine Felstead’s Yoga for Runners: Intermediate Program What’s the goal? Increased flexibility where runners need it most: the hamstrings, hips, quadriceps and lower back.
Off-road racing opens with 6 hours in the saddle
posted: 03/05/2012 3:33 a.m. Discuss
Mountain bikers’ off-road racing season begins in Hot Springs this weekend with the Spa City 6 Hour and the Du It in the Dirt Off-Road Duathlon.
Early morning heart rate test
posted: 03/05/2012 3:29 a.m. Discuss
There is no clear-cut, one-size-fits-all test to determine whether an athlete (elite or recreational, for example, you) might be on the verge of overtraining.
Women’s running clinics are still growing after 15 years
posted: 02/27/2012 2:41 a.m. Discuss
Fifteen years ago, “women run Arkansas” was a sentence — an uppity sort of sentence.
Ready to do the marathon? Remember, ‘Nothing new’
posted: 02/27/2012 2:37 a.m. Discuss
“Nothing new.” That’s the mantra for runners and walkers who are preparing to race the Little Rock Marathon on Sunday. But — guaranteed — racers will encounter experiences along their 26.2-mile travail that they have not prepared for in training.
Race days in the Rock: What happens when
posted: 02/27/2012 2:35 a.m. Discuss
Here are a few events that will (more than likely) take place this week as the whole world grinds to a halt to observe the running of Little Rock Parks and Recreation’s 10th annual Little Rock Marathon: Tuesday (probably) Workers will raise and hang a 6-foot-tall mirrored ball from the ceiling of the exposition room in the Statehouse Convention Center.
Readings at state park honor conservationist
posted: 02/27/2012 2:24 a.m. Discuss
Guest speakers will read aloud Saturday at Hobbs State Park Conservation Area from a book written in 1949.
Women’s running clinics free, no experience needed
posted: 02/27/2012 2:22 a.m. Discuss
Registration for any of the 2012 Women Run Arkansas clinics is free, but participants are encouraged to register for the Women Can Run 5K ($20). Running the 5K, which is May 12 in Conway, is optional.
Attention: Don’t feed or harass taperers
posted: 02/20/2012 2:14 a.m. Discuss
The marathoners are tapering.
Riders, board your bikes! Others can turn Blue
posted: 02/20/2012 2:12 a.m. Discuss
A new season of road-racing begins Saturday for bicycle-pedaling Arkansans who want to put their heads down and haul.
Plucky Grand Prix runners halt briefly for awards
posted: 02/13/2012 2:20 a.m. Discuss
A horde of runners walked away from the River Trail 15K clutching trophies and plaques Feb. 4 — more plaques than could possibly have been earned that morning.
Bird count’s raw data pure gold for scientists
posted: 02/13/2012 2:17 a.m. Discuss
The 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday in Arkansas and across the continent.
