The Bindu: Yoga and Wellness will mark its first anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 18, with a day of free yoga and music.

The center will team up with music school Creative Ej from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., for a celebration at the two businesses on at 11138 Treynorth Drive, off N.C. 115 in Cornelius.

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Team Triumph will host the 2nd annual “Rumble in the Woods” race series Saturday, Nov. 13, at Lake Norman State Park in Troutman. This year’s event features a 5k and a 10k runs on the park’s trails. Both races start at 9 a.m.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
High school athletes are sidelined more than 9,000 days a year because of heat-related illnesses, according to a new CDC analysis.

The analysis, published earlier this month in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, looked at 2005-2009 data from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study. Read the full story

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Mark Odendahl (1024) rides the Leadville race. (Photo provided by Mark Odendahl)

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Mark Odendahl has been a cyclist most of his life and raced mountain bikes in his 20s. But nothing prepared him for the challenge he took on this summer.

Last Saturday, Aug. 14, Mr. Odendahl, 43, entered the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race in Leadville, Colo. It’s a day-long, 100-mile-plus race in which cyclists battle rough terrain and altitude over a grueling course through the mountains around Leadville.

“I’ve always done shorter-length stuff. It was far different from anything I’d ever done before,” he said Friday. Read the full story

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