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Colorado turned slacklining into the state’s favourite sports preview image
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Colorado turned slacklining into the state’s...

You are more used to the conventional sports such as playing football, taking walks, or dancing. But Boulder (in Colorado,...

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Make it festive by walking: the Get Set Leeds team shares their favourite walking places preview image
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Make it festive by walking: the Get Set Leeds ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also a time when people tend to eat a lot...

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Running (literally) for the general election? preview image
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Running (literally) for the general election?

Everyone in Leeds knows by now that on the 12th of December the UK will vote in a general election....

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Your dog needs a walk. But so do you! preview image
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Your dog needs a walk. But so do you!

For any dog owner and (lover), you surely know that walking your dog is part of the daily activities to...

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Keeping up with the Joneses in physical activity! preview image
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Keeping up with the Joneses in physical activi...

We already know that Leeds is one of the most active cities in the UK, praising itself with a large...

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Chores + technology = be (more) active! preview image
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Chores + technology = be (more) active!

Have you ever wondered how people used to keep themselves active and healthy in the 19th century? You must think...

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Let’s roll Leeds with our skates! preview image
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Let’s roll Leeds with our skates!

We already know about conventional physical activities like walking, running or cycling that put Leeds on the map for one...

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Working with Communities – a lovely poem preview image
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Working with Communities - a lovely poem

Debbie Sunley, a specialist learning mentor in Leeds City Council's learning for life team, wrote us this fantastic poem about...

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Run Talk Run to boost your mental health preview image
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Run Talk Run to boost your mental health

From Dundee to Dubai, California to Oxford, there are groups running (or walking) 5k and chatting along the way -...

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Mix pleasure with business…AGAIN! preview image
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Mix pleasure with business…AGAIN!

If you’re one of our constant readers (or not), you might remember we told you here about how shopping can...

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Shop ‘till you drop … calories! preview image
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Shop ‘till you drop … calories!

Mixing up work and pleasure could also be a saying when it comes to shopping. Merely seen as an activity...

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Be undefeatable preview image
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Be undefeatable

Great to see an uplifting and optimistic new campaign out there today. Called We are undefeatable, it supports people to...

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