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Pilates helps relieve 65-year-old Omaha woman's arthritis pain Omaha World-Herald A: I started doing Pilates four or five years ago. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis about 12 years ago. I was doing different things to deal with the arthritis. It affects every part of your body, not just your joints. I happened to run into …

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I don’t remember what now, but something prompted me to volunteer at the 2006 Chicago Marathon. I had never watched a marathon, didn’t have any runner friends, nor had I even run much more than four or five miles at that point — barely that. My “assignment” was working the gear check tent pre-race, which meant getting to Grant Park at 5 a.m. on a blustery, rainy morning, and helping hundreds of …

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Get a leg up on marathon training (Chicago Sun-Times)