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Lawrence's workout guru Don Gardner to be featured on cover of Red Shoe calendar
Lawrence's workout guru is used to wearing sneakers, but he donned a pair of red high heels to support the Willow Domestic Violence Center Tuesday.
- Dog Days to begin summer workouts at stadium Monday
- June 3, 2011
- Red Dog’s Dog Days community workout is returning to Memorial Stadium starting Monday.
- Dog Days inspires Ellen Young to organize running groups, events
- April 29, 2011
- Ellen Young doesn’t just walk the walk. She runs the run. That’s exactly what she’s been doing in Lawrence for years.
- Jingle bell, jingle bell, Jingle Bell Jog: Dashing through the cold, rasing money for charity
- December 17, 2010
- The eighth annual Jingle Bell Jog down Massachusetts Street lived up to the name Thursday night.
- Dogged determination: Community fitness helps mom lose weight
- March 22, 2010
- “I didn’t starting running until I was 44 when I couldn’t run 100 yards without becoming breathless,” says Ellen Young, representative at Mike Grosdidier’s State Farm insurance office.
- Dog Days location, time changes
- January 4, 2010
- Red Dog’s Dog Day morning workouts on Tuesdays and Thursdays will now start at KU’s Allen Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Drive, at 6:10 a.m., instead of at the previous location, Robinson Gym, at 6 a.m. The location and time change will continue until further notice.
- Registration under way for annual Red Dog Run
- July 20, 2009
- Early-bird registration ends on Friday for the Red Dog Run to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
- Mark’s on the Move: ‘Dog Days’ turnout
- July 12, 2009
- Nearly 3,000 people gathered at KU’s playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets last week for what has been dubbed the “World’s Largest Community Workout.”
- More than 2,750 turn out for community workout
- Massive crowd of thousands steps up to form ‘world’s largest community workout’
- 02:25 p.m., July 8, 2009 Updated 09:44 p.m.
- Don “Red Dog” Gardner told a crowd gathered at Kansas University’s Shenk Fields that 2,766 has turned out for the night’s workout.
- Lawrence aiming for world’s largest workout
- June 24, 2009
- Inspired by the ever-growing popularity of Red Dog’s Dog Days, a small group of local health and business leaders working together on a new initiative called LiveWell Lawrence came up with a novel idea: What if Lawrence could set a world record for the largest community workout?
- Triathlon winner praises Dog Days
- June 16, 2009
- The hundreds of attendees of “Red Dog’s Dog Days,” Lawrence’s own community workout, know that when Don “Red Dog” Gardner interrupts the workout there is something important to say.
- Dog Days moving to new location
- Exercise program will relocate to field east of Robinson Gym
- May 28, 2009
- What originally began as a fitness program for the Lawrence High School football team in 1984 has since evolved and expanded into Red Dog’s Dog Days, a Lawrence tradition that draws about 1,400 participants to its daily community fitness workouts every summer.
- Bracelets available to support ‘Dog Days’ founder, help fund cancer research
- 05:01 p.m., April 27, 2009 Updated 05:06 p.m.
- Green bracelets in support of Don “Red Dog” Gardner’s fight with prostate cancer can be picked up at Dog Days workouts or several retailers in Lawrence.
- Fitness warrior takes up fight against prostate cancer after own diagnosis
- Red Dog’s latest cause hits close to home
- April 27, 2009
- For years Don “Red Dog” Gardner has used his Red Dog’s Dog Days workouts to advocate for the causes of others. In between the stretches, sprints and sit-ups, Gardner spreads the word about those in the community with leukemia, lung cancer or other serious illnesses. He promotes their fundraisers and benefit runs or just asks the group to keep them in their thoughts and prayers. But on an early morning in late February, it was Gardner who was sick.
- Special recognition planned for ‘Red Dog’
- September 2, 2008
- Special recognition has been planned for the man who’s organized free community workouts in Lawrence for a quarter of a century.
- ‘Red Dog’ to receive state health award
- August 31, 2008
- Don “Red Dog” Gardner, who started the Red Dog’s Dog Days community workout program in 1984, will receive a Hometown Health Hero award Wednesday from the Governor’s Council on Fitness.
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