Run Well, Fall Marathoners!
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To Fall Marathoners everywhere, no matter what your level, may your steps be true and your times unbelievable!
We hope our Take The Magic Step Team has inspired and helped you train—and that you are ready to focus your entire being on your historic endeavor. Over two million cheering people around the world will be gathered in a spirit of positive energy and good will to watch you, the dedicated athlete, achieve your goal. Every single second of training and commitment will be worth it as your foot crosses over the finish line. You are at the center of an extraordinary human experience! Cherish it!
Whether you are running in one of the huge marathons in Chicago, New York City or Berlin, or in Dresden, Frankfurt, or Amsterdam, or in a local marathon in your area, your marathon is the most important one. It will bring you agony and joy, it will test you and make you stronger, and it will make you a part of human history.
In these last weeks, your training and schedule are critical to your entire commitment. If you are battling through a nagging injury, please visit our Health Management pages. You will find articles on managing these injuries, notably Managing Achilles Tendon Injuries and Treating the Painful Kneecap. And it might help you to read Two Days Before the Marathon so that you get the most joy and memories from your marathon experience.
To marathoners everywhere, Take The Magic Step wishes you success and self-satisfaction as you explore your boundaries and limits! Keep running!
Uta and The Take The Magic Step Team
12/22/09
Happy Holidays! The entire Take The Magic Step team sends you our special “Welcomes” to the New Year, with hopes for new goals, and exciting adventures. May you experience all the magic that the coming year might bring.
11/10/09
20 years ago—together with millions of people worldwide—Berliners celebrated the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall. Those who witnessed it will probably never forget the celebration, the joy and the hope of the November days in 1989. And as we live through these new and exciting times I hope we may understand and support the people who can’t move on quite so easily from this historic and emotionally charged event.
09/17/09
Autumn arrived … with its invitation to runners all over the world to participate in one of the numerous endurance events on the calendar—from the 5K to the marathon. Are you excited and ready to run?
08/26/09
The once-divided city of Berlin came together in spectacular fashion to welcome athletes from 213 countries to the World Track and Field Championships—and leave visitors with lasting memories of warmth and friendship.
08/14/09
A letter from Uta: Highlights and hopes for the World Track and Field Championships in Berlin’s historic Olympic Stadium—Take The Magic Step® is there to capture the thrills on the track.
07/31/09
It’s an idyllic bicycle ride through the gorgeous Colorado Rocky Mountains–and a chance to improve the lives of hundreds of underprivileged kids. Uta pedals 100 miles to support the Little Charity that’s making a Big Difference.
05/06/09
The blooming flowers, fresh green colors and warm breezes of Spring can give us an overwhelming sense of a new beginning—and you can use that feeling to lift up your spirits and get out the door on to YOUR path of fitness and health, and on to happy running trails.
04/24/09
The 113th Boston Marathon not only united elite runners from around the world with those representing charities, it also marked the 1000th event for the amazing father and son “Team Hoyt.” Uta was honored to coach the Team Hoyt runners, and also visited with old and new friends in Boston. Here she shares with Take The Magic Step readers highlights of her experience and offers special thanks.
03/27/09
Marathon fever is on! Whether you are a runner or a fan, you’ve no doubt been touched by all the excitement! We’re sending out wishes for good luck to runners everywhere, and a special message to those who are not participating in any event: Come out and support the runners along the course—maybe you will be one of them next year!
12/23/08
Its Holiday time! A special message of Thank You to our readers! The happy relaxing Holidays can offer great possibilities for you and your family to get outdoors and enjoy some fun activities, spend well-deserved time together, and most of all to celebrate being together as the year ends.
10/10/08
The marathon season is in full swing and with the great results in the Berlin Marathon we hope that everyone can have such a nice experience in the remaining events this fall!
09/17/08
The upcoming marathon season promises great results and exciting competitions in many city marathons all over the world. Good luck to the beginning as well as the mature marathoner!
08/27/08
Take The Magic Step®’s tribute to the inspirational running performances at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
08/14/08
With the Olympic Games now in full swing, we would like to honor the track and field athletes by providing our own Olympic coverage of the running events in the “Athletics News” section of our Web site. A letter from Uta.
08/08/08
Dear Visitors,
Many cyclists have had a busy and productive summer helping two major bike-a-thons achieve record turnouts and donations! It was exciting for me to be able to participate in both events, which were excellent examples of how each of us can help raise money for worthy causes by simply doing the things we love [...]
07/30/08
After months of development and with wonderful advice from our dedicated family of readers, we are delighted to introduce our new streamlined site.
05/02/08
Dear Friends,
Last month’s 112th Boston Marathon was a wonderful event, especially with the participation of 1,275 charity runners!
03/19/08
Dear Web site readers,
Many greetings from the Take The Magic Step™ Team. After a crazy winter in so many parts of the world, spring is finally here! Everywhere you look, there are little signs of rebirth and things coming to life. It’s magic!
In the running world, this reemergence of vitality is always best captured by [...]
12/29/07
Dear Web site readers,
Hello to everyone! On behalf of the entire Take the Magic Step™ team from all over the world, I want to wish you much happiness, peace, fitness and health to you, your families and friends, no matter where you live and what holidays you are celebrating.
The holidays are a wonderful time to [...]
10/30/07
For some of you, this is your first time to our site. If you were inspired or just curious after seeing Uta on Nova’s “Marathon Challenge” on PBS, we would like to introduce you to Take The Magic Step™. Our team has a history of and passion for giving. Our wish is to offer inspiration [...]
09/26/07
Dear runners and Web site visitors,
We’re about to enter one of the most special times of the running year - the fall marathon season. To marathoners all over the world, best wishes for a great experience wherever you may be running this autumn. To those marathoners’ families and friends, please keep on being supportive and [...]
08/08/07
The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge just keeps getting bigger and better. Bigger, in that in its 27th year, the two-day fundraising bike ride across Massachusetts drew more than 5,000 cyclists, by far the most in the event’s history. Better, in that the riders are expected to raise $27 million for cancer research and treatment through the Dana-Farber [...]
04/21/07
Congratulations to all of you who have run one of the recent spring marathons, like Boston or Rotterdam. It’s been exciting to see the great results. I send my best wishes to those who soon will be running marathons in London, Hamburg and elsewhere!
Being in Boston for this year’s windy, rainy Marathon Monday reminded me [...]
04/02/07
Happy spring from Uta and the Take The Magic Step™ team. I hope you are enjoying being outside more, in warmer, sunnier weather. Many of you have spent the winter preparing for special events for this time of year, including, of course, the numerous marathons that will take place in the next few weeks.
If you’re [...]
12/31/06
Dear Web site visitors!
The Take the Magic Step™ team and I hope you’re having a great holiday season and that you’re looking forward to a wonderful new year.
We want to thank you for visiting our site throughout 2006. As you may have noticed, in April, we upgraded the site to what you see today, where [...]
12/21/06
Dear Web site readers,
Hello to everyone! On behalf of the entire Take the Magic Step™ team, I wish you much happiness, peace and fitness.
We hope you’re having a beautiful end of the year, and celebrating in a way that’s special to you. There’s such a great variety of holiday traditions this time of year. Maybe [...]
10/25/06
Dear fellow marathoners and visitors to the Take the Magic Step™ Web site!
Now that fall has arrived, it’s time for beautiful running weather and all of the great fall marathons. I hope your training has gone well and that you’re ready for a magical experience.
If you’re running a marathon soon, please see our article Two [...]
09/14/06
Over the weekend of September 9-10, more than 1,000 runners toured South Boston, Massachusetts to support the South Boston Neighborhood House and its mission of meeting the diverse needs of the community’s residents. By participating in the 66th running of the Ollie Road Race Classic (a 5-miler) on September 9, as well as the ever-growing [...]
07/19/06
Every year, the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge raises more than $20 million for cancer research and treatment through the Dana Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund. First held in 1980, the two-day event was the first fundraising bike-a-thon in the U.S., and now raises more money than any other athletic fundraising event in the country.
This year, from August [...]
