By Annie Howard Dana Travis is nearing the finish line. On Village 2 Village day, March 11, she’ll put her hard work to the test. Now that she’s in the home stretch, Travis sees just how far she’s come since she started preparing for the race in January, a journey documented by the Over the Mountain Journal. It was “tough to run just 30 seconds” back then, she said, or at … [Read more...]
Slogging Through It: Vestavia Hills Mom Pushes Through Training for 10K
By Annie Howard Dana Travis is staying strong, or at least she’s trying to. The Vestavia Hills resident, wife, mother of three and vice president of account services at blr | further started the year with a new challenge – running the Village2Village 10K on March 11. Since being profiled in the Jan. 12 edition, the novice runner has been prepping for the challenge at … [Read more...]
A Fresh Start: Vestavia Hills Mom and Marketing VP Begins Her Journey to V2V
By Emily Williams Dana Stephens Travis – a Vestavia Hills resident, wife to a “super dad,” mother to three spunky kids and vice president of account services at blr | further – is on a mission to add another job to her full schedule: running. As the new year rolled around, Travis began a training sched- ule with Resolute Running in Homewood, where she has set a goal to run in … [Read more...]
One Foot in Front Of the Other: Homewood’s Dell’Italia Trains For First Run After Surgery
By Emily Williams Sidelined from the race course to recover from heel surgery in December 2015, Pat Dell’Italia of Homewood is get- ting back into the routine of running. She had the same heel surgery on her left foot three years ago, but Dell’Italia said her right foot took a bit longer to get back into the swing of things. To mark her comeback and two heels as fit as … [Read more...]