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By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com Guide since 1996

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    • Best Walking App - Readers' Choice Awards 2013 Created: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
      Finalists in the walking app category for the 2013 Readers' Choice Awards.
    • Virtual Walk App Created: Thursday, December 27, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
      Virtual Walk is an Android and iOS app to plot your fitness walks on a virtual map.
    • Top Gifts for Walking Dads Created: Monday, June 18, 2007 Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
      What should you get for a walking dad? Here are gift ideas for men who walk.
    • Biggest Loser Dad Michael Dorsey Gains Life with Son Created: Monday, June 10, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
      Michael Dorsey lost weight on The Biggest Loser and tells how being a father influenced his weight loss effort.
    • Top Gifts for Wandering Grads Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      If you are looking for a gift for a new graduate who will be enjoying travel or who just loves to walk and hike, here are gift ideas for those who are off to see the world.
    • Before You Buy a Pedometer Created: Sunday, September 07, 2003 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      Use these tips to choose the best pedometer with the accuracy and features you want.
    • Top Blister Preventing Lubricants Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      Top picks for blister preventing lubricants for walkers and runners. Lubricants come in different formulas, from petroleum jelly to silicone to solid sticks.
    • Top Chafing Prevention Products Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      Top picks to prevent chafing for runners and walkers. Painful chafing can happen at your armpits, crotch, or nipples. These products can protect you.
    • Let's Go on a Year-Round Self-Guided AVA Walk Created: Sunday, December 26, 2004 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      How to walk AVA self guided year-round walking events. Over 1400 map-guided walking routes are offered throughout the USA and hundreds more in Canada. You can enjoy these for fitness walking, walki...
    • Fat for the Holidays? Created: Sunday, December 24, 2006 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
      Fat for the Holidays? Exercise and nutrition tips to help maintain or lose during the holidays.
    • Boomerwalk - Book Review Created: Monday, May 18, 2009 Updated: Sunday, June 09, 2013
      Book review of BoomerWalk by Brent Bohlen. This book shows how baby boomers should replace running with racewalking for aerobic fitness and competition.
    • Top Gifts for Walking Men Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Sunday, June 09, 2013
      Ideas for gifts for the man who enjoys walking, to keep him moving.
    • 30 Minutes a Day Keeps Fat Away Created: Friday, January 23, 2004 Updated: Sunday, June 09, 2013
      A clinical study shows walking or running 30 minutes a day prevents weight gain. More activity showed weight and fat loss.
    • Portland Rock 'n' Roll 1/2 Marathon Created: Monday, May 21, 2012 Updated: Saturday, June 08, 2013
      A review of the Portland Rock 'n' Roll 1/2 Marathon.
    • Would You Buy Race Registration Insurance? Created: Saturday, June 08, 2013 Updated: Saturday, June 08, 2013
      When you can't make it to a marathon or half marathon, it would be nice to get your big registration fee refunded. Now some events offer race registration insurance for an additional fee.
    • Barefoot Walking - Book Review Created: Sunday, June 02, 2013 Updated: Friday, June 07, 2013
      A book review of Barefoot Walking by Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee. Why should you walk barefoot, how to get started, how to raise kids barefoot.
    • Dr. Scholls Custom Fit Orthotics Too Wide Created: Friday, June 07, 2013 Updated: Friday, June 07, 2013
      A reader did the footmapping but found Dr. Scholl's Custom Fit Orthotics are too wide for her sandals.
    • Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Created: Monday, September 13, 2004 Updated: Thursday, June 06, 2013
      The Avon Walks for Breast Cancer walks are held in cities throughout the USA. Walkers walk have the choice of walking a marathon or half-marathon the first day, then all walk a half-marathon the se...
    • Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure Walks Created: Monday, September 13, 2004 Updated: Thursday, June 06, 2013
      The Breast Cancer 3-Day Walks benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation are held in cities throughout the USA. Walkers walk approximately 20 miles a day, camping out each night.
    • Barefooters Recovery Shoe Review Created: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, June 05, 2013
      A review of the Barefooters recovery footwear. Slip into these after a long day on your feet.
    • Reebok RunTones Work for Runner with Knee Injury Created: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, June 04, 2013
      TT says Reebok RunTone shoes worked for him and his problems with a knee injury and shin splints.
    • GCC Global Corporate Challenge - Workplace Pedometer Wellness Program Created: Monday, May 20, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 03, 2013
      The 16-week GCC Global Corporate Challenge is a fun workplace pedometer walking program.
    • Exercise-Related Loose Stools Created: Sunday, April 18, 2004 Updated: Monday, June 03, 2013
      Sensitive subjects for walkers including runners trots, diarrhea, flatulence and nausea.
    • Tracking Your Walks Created: Saturday, August 30, 2003 Updated: Saturday, June 01, 2013
      Use these walking logs and journal calendars to track your walking distance, speed, time and notes. Free printable logs and an Excel spreadsheet.
    • Does Walking Backward Have Exercise Benefits? Created: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      Does walking backward have more exercise benefits than forward walking? Studies have shown that walking backwards increases heart rate.
    • Getaway Walking Created: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      Summer walking vacations and destinations for getaway walks this summer.
    • Take a Walking Vacation Created: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      How to plan for a walking vacation. Get out and see the world by taking a trek, joining in a walking festival, or taking a walking tour. How to plan and what to pack.
    • Walking and Volkssport Event Calendars Created: Friday, April 16, 2004 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      AVA walking event calendars - find AVA volkssport walking events in the USA.
    • AVA Centurion Achievement Challenge Created: Friday, August 31, 2012 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      Walk 100 AVA-sanctioned walks in a calendar year to earn the Centurion Award.
    • Top 10 Walks in the USA for 2007 Created: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      What are the best walks of 2007? Members of the American Volkssport Association chose from more than 1,400 walking routes to come up with the top 10 walks in the United States.
    • Top 10 Walks of 2005 Created: Friday, January 20, 2006 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      The top 10 walks of 2005 were voted by the walkers of the American Volkssport Association from among over 1400 walking routes throughout the USA.
    • College Campus Walk Program Created: Saturday, January 03, 2004 Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013
      The AVA College Campus Walk Program rewards you for walking AVA sanctioned walks through colleges and universities. Earn "degrees" based on how many walks you complete.

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