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CLASSICAL MUSIC: New CD of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 2E

THEATER: Edgy John Patrick Shanley play takes stage 3E
PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: Try mustard on that burn 5E
HEALTH ALERTS: A closer look at childhood obesity 12E

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HEALTHY LIVING

ULTRAinspired
How 4 athletes turned personal setbacks into fitness motivation
Peter Schneider

Lead singer Kelly Hansen says he and band founder

Nick Jones have worked hard to stabilize the group.

MUSIC

Foreigner
rejuvenated
Kelly Hansen, who joined in 2005,
reflects on group’s resurgence
By MARIO TARRADELL
Music Critic
mtarradell@dallasnews.com
By virtue of sticking
around, Kelly Hansen has
reached a milestone. He is
now the longest-running
lead singer of veteran
pop-rock band Foreigner
after original frontman
Lou Gramm, the man who
sang enduring radio
staples.
Hansen, along with
Foreigner founder Mick
Jones, is credited with
resuscitating the group
after years of instability —
including two short-lived
lead singers, Johnny
Edwards and Chaz West.
Plus, there’s a fresh CD of
original material, 2009’s
Can’t Slow Down, which
merges the band’s vintage
rock and latter-day pop.
Plan your life
Foreigner, Styx and Kansas
perform beginning at 7
p.m. Wednesday at
Verizon Theatre, 1001
Performance Place, Grand
Prairie. $13.50-$79.50.
Ticketmaster.
Calling from Los
Angeles, Hansen is
talkative and articulate.
As Foreigner’s lead
singer since 2005, do
you feel entrenched in
the band?
Yes. I feel like I’m a
fully involved member of
the band. Mick has given
me a lot of support and
confidence from early on,
free rein. It’s not only now
that I feel that way. I’ve felt
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TRENDS

Are you with

the band?
KYE R. LEE/Staff Photographer

Cydney Walker of Grand Prairie was reinspired by bodybuilding after a personal crisis.

Shaped, silicone wristbands spur By CHRISTY ROBINSON First a racer, mountain bikes and road

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collecting, trading among kids
By LINDSEY BEVER
Neighborsgo.com
lbever@neighborsgo.com
At Kelsey Bergman’s 12th birthday party last month,
she opened a package of silicone wristbands. It might
not sound like much of a fashion statement, but just a
these four people took their troubles to the trail and
few bands brought a nationwide fad into the Frisco
household. Now, Kelsey’s siblings are hooked. the weight room. They used mind and body to
“That was it for our house,” said her mother, Lynn
overcome disappointments and discover new paths
Bergman.
The coveted through intense effort. Here, they offer insight into
bands, known as why and how.
Silly Bandz, Crazy
Bands, Bama
Bandz and
Zanybandz, are
being collected,
traded and worn —
sometimes 300 at a
time. Bunched
together, they
resemble the ’80s
jelly bracelets.
Taken off and laid
flat, they snap into
shapes of animals
and other objects.
Bergman said
she has purchased
JENICE JOHNSON/Neighborsgo about 200 bands
Some kids wear several dozen shaped like cars,
of the bands at a time. zoo animals, sea
creatures,
GET SOME dinosaurs and rock
stars, and they’re
Zanybandz and similar products
becoming
are sold at some Walgreens stores,
Hallmark and other gift shops.
increasingly
difficult to find.
Zanybandz have
been causing a commotion in other parts of the country,
but now they’re hitting Texas, said Lori Montag,
co-owner of the Oklahoma-based Zanybandz. They’re
sold in packs of 12 and 24 for about $2 to $5.
See KIDS Page 8E Ginny King of Dallas works out with a cycling coach six to seven days a week.
Special Contributor
ivorce, breakups, problems at work …
when it comes right down to it, these
athletes experience life the same as
anyone else.
Instead of the couch, the refrigerator and the TV,
now an organizer
Ginny King, 42, of Dallas
grew up with two sisters in an
active family that took part in
water sports, snowmobiling,
ballet and off-road
motorcycling. “My mom and
dad always had us involved in
physical activity to try to keep
us out of trouble,” she says.
She raced Jet Skis
professionally in her 20s,
reaching the No. 3 spot in the
world. She then got into riding
MIKE STONE/Special Contributor
bikes, bringing along her new
passion when she followed a
boyfriend to Dallas from her
native Albuquerque.
The relationship didn’t
work out, but luckily for the
North Texas cycling scene, she
stayed. In March, she began a
weekly race series called
Thursday Night Criterium in
Sunnyvale, just north of
Mesquite. “I decided I wanted
to open a series that reflects
what I wanted in a race,” she
says.
Helped by word of mouth,
local cycling blogs, shops and
volunteers, King’s “Crit”
draws between 100 and 200
participants a week, she says.
“That’s just how the cycling
community is. It’s really
friendly and really wants to
help.”
Achievement she’s
proudest of: One point away
from first place at the
women’s premier cup Hotter
’n Hell Hundred road race last
year. She had stepped away
from racing for a couple of
years and came back to
compete against women half
her age.
Diet and fitness routine:
King burns a lot of calories, so
she eats a lot, she says. She
stays away from fried foods
and drinks little to no alcohol
but has a weakness for
chocolate. She drinks a gallon
to a gallon and a half of water
a day. She works out with a
cycling coach six to seven days
a week, including speedwork,
intervals and group rides.
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JAY NORMAN

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From around the block

to around the world Photos by MARK ROGERS/Special Contributor

Jay Norman of Irving was
47 years old and going through
a divorce when a friend invited
him on a run to get his mind off
things.
At first he could only run
around the block once, then
progressed to twice around.
Then he worked up to 10Ks.
Now, 25 years later, the ultra-
runner’s list of accomplish-
ments include distances most
athletes half his age don’t
attempt, much less complete.
Running has “given me
self-confidence that I guess I
didn’t have. Going through a
divorce, you’re at a pretty low
Norman of Irving has crossed the finish line of more than 200 ultras all over the world.
point in your life,” he says. “It
proved to be great therapy for
me.” He completed the White
Rock Marathon the same year.
He ran his first ultramarathon,
a 60K race, eight months after
that first run around the block.
Since then, Norman has
crossed the finish line of more
than 200 ultras all over the
world, including a multiday
100-mile race in the Himala-
yas. He’s also completed a
double crossing of the Grand
Canyon in just over 14 hours.
He’s dealt with setbacks
ranging from an old femur
break from his Marine days to
a torn rotator cuff to knee
surgery. A surgeon even told
him almost 15 years ago to stop
running, but he hasn’t come
close. He’s active with North
Texas Trail Runners, which he
co-founded in 1996.
Now at 72, he thinks back
on how that lap around the
block gave him focus, camara-
derie and good health. “But I
didn’t do it for health reasons
— I did it because I enjoyed it,”
he says.
Achievement he’s proud-
est of: Winning the silver belt
buckle prize for finishing the
Western States 100 in less
than 24 hours.
Diet and fitness routine:
A lot of fruits, vegetables,
juices, soy milk, fish and
vitamin supplements; little
red meat; and no dairy. Run-
walks a couple of miles two to
three times a week and up to
18 miles on the weekends.
When he trains for races with
hills, he runs the stairs of a
22-story building.
Coming up: An 82-year-
old NTTR member who lives
in England has challenged
Norman to run in the “heavy”
division of the 2011 Bataan
Memorial Death March in
White Sands, N.M., where
they’ll run the marathon
together wearing 35-pound
packs.
Running through
the dark times
People ask ultrarunner
Rochelle Frazeur, 39, of
Coppell all the time why she
runs 100 miles, much less
why she runs as a soloist in
200-mile races meant as
relays. She feels it’s her calling,
she says.
As a child in Pennsylvania,
she grew up with abuse in a
split family. “I didn’t know why
God would allow that,” she
says. Frazeur found respite in
running through the fields,
orchards and mountains near
her country home. Later,
others would inspire her to
keep running.
While five months pregnant
in 2000, she met a woman
who encouraged her to try a
marathon after giving birth, so
she did. Then she read an
article about a girl who de-
scribed “the smile” she got after
running a 50-mile race, so
Frazeur ran one, too. Her
oldest brother talked about
how in the Army he had
marched 100 miles with an
80-pound rucksack, so in 2005
she entered her first 24-hour
race, completing 93 miles.
Around that time, her
marriage began falling apart.
While in the middle of a 100K
race, the difficulties of life and
the race broke her. She then
realized her hardships in life
had a purpose — they made
FILE 2007
Rochelle Frazeur of Coppell
runs 100 miles at least once
a month to stay sharp.
her a fighter. “God had been
watching out for me in that
way,” she says. “He prepared
me to do this sport.”
Now a single working
mother with two children, ages
9 and 11, Frazeur raises pledge
money for her races to benefit
causes that help young girls
and abused women. “I’m now
trying to use this gift to help
other girls and women realize
how much running can help
them.”
Achievement she’s
proudest of: Only soloist to
complete the 200-mile Tom’s
Run Relay in Maryland in
2007 and 2008.
Diet and fitness routine:
Avoids white flour and doesn’t
eat after 5 p.m. No caffeine,
except during overnight races
for a punch. Runs four to six
miles four days a week before
the sun comes up, then 10 to
20 miles on the weekend. Runs
100 miles or 100K at least once
a month to stay sharp.
Practicing what
she preaches
As a 20-year-old, Cydney
Walker of Grand Prairie was
unhappy with her thin, 5-
foot-11 frame.
She took up bodybuilding,
but it took a lot of time and
effort to develop muscle mass
on her elongated female phy-
sique, especially because she
was adamant about doing it
without steroids.
Almost 15 years later, in
2007, as a dietitian and per-
sonal trainer, Walker hit a wall
that threatened her emotional-
ly and physically. After filing a
sexual harassment claim, she
says she coped with the ordeal
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by doing something she teach-
es her clients to avoid — de-
pression eating.
A short time later, Walker
attended the Ronnie Coleman
Classic bodybuilding competi-
tion in Arlington. She discov-
ered a division called “figure,”
which focuses on long, lean
muscles instead of mass —
perfect for her build. It was the
inspiration she needed to focus
on herself again.
“I have worked with many
women who have turned to
food as a means to cope with
hardships, and I was living that
life. I couldn’t be true to my
clients if I didn’t walk the walk
as well as talk the talk,” she
said. “Competing helped me
gain my confidence back.”
Achievement she’s
proudest of: Breaking the 10
percent body-fat barrier for
women during grueling com-
petition training. She stresses
that this is only safe to main-
tain for a short amount of time,
and she only competes in one
to two events a year.
Diet and fitness routine:
Vegetarian. Thirty minutes of
cardio three times a week,
karate and weight training
four times a week, which focus-
es on recovery from a groin
injury she’s nursing.
Up next: MuscleMania in
Fort Worth this October. Her
goal is to become a natural-
figure pro in the next three
years.
Christy Robinson is a Dal-
las freelance writer.
christy@christy-robinson.com

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