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Fitness Friday and Giveaway [5 Moeben Arm Sleeves]

Giveaway: 5 Moeben Arm Sleeves

Arm sleeves aren't just for chilly days or trail runners. Moeben Arm Sleeve are lightweight warm-weather sleeves with a high SPF rating to keep your skin cool and out of harm's way from the sun's rays. Some are made from fabric interwoven with silver ions to maximize thermal regulation.

Who better to design (Moeben CEO and designer, Shannon Farar-Griefer) an arm sleeve than an ultra marathon runner whose favorite race distance is 100 miles. Her longest run is 292 miles and race history includes Badwater (135 miles non-stop from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, CA in temperatures up to 130F (55c), it is the most demanding and extreme running race offered anywhere on the planet.) and Western States (100 miles from the Squaw Valley floor to Auburn, California with a vertical climb of 2,550 feet within the first 4 1/2 miles). Any doubts? Click here to see Moeben perform in 125 degree heat (click on the About tab in the menu bar and access the video in the yellow bar).

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How To Enter

Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment telling me 1. what size sleeve you would wear and what you think about running beyond 26.2. Is it a crazy idea? Or 26.2 is far enough for me? Or do you love the idea and it's something you want to do?

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5. Visit Moeben and leave a comment telling me what your favorite pattern or solid color sleeve is.
6. Share this giveaway on your blog, Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.

(If you’re already following via any of these means, your entry will still count. Just leave a comment to that effect).

Giveaway ends midnight August 22, 2011 with the winning entry to be drawn the following day via random.org. Please make sure that your email address is in the first comment so that I may contact you if you’re the winner. If winning entrant doesn’t acknowledge their win within 48 hours, I will draw again. 

Disclosure: For the purpose of this giveaway, Moeben generously donated the sleeves free of charge. No monetary compensation was received. All thoughts and opinions of this product are my own and not influenced in any way by the company or products I received.

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Guest Series: Why An Ultramarathoner? {Kara}

This week's guest post is part of the Great Big Bloggy Post Exchange at An Average Athlete. Please welcome Kara!

Hi Life…as I See It [Fitness, Health and Happiness] readers! I’m Kara from It's a Dog Lick Baby World and I’m doing a guest post as part of the Great Blogger Exchange. I write about life as a stay a home mom and training for ultra marathons. Yes, you read that correctly, I have a one year old daughter and I still have enough energy to want to run for hours. :)

I wasn’t always a runner, in fact back in March I ran my first ever marathon.  It was a learning experience, but even then I knew I wanted to run an ultra. Since that point, I have completed two 50K trail races, which you can read about here: Just Call Me the Salt Fairy and Does An Ultramarathoner Shit in the Woods?

This fall I am going to be running the JFK 50 mile race! I’m 3 weeks into my training for this race, which mostly involves back to back long runs to build endurance and familiarity with suffering. The big question I get is “Why?” and I’m going to answer that for you: