Exercise: Personal Accounts
 Race Across America: Team4HIVHope Cycles to Raise Awareness and to Win (Regularly Updated)
From TheBody.com
 Boston Marathon Attack: An HIV Survivor's Perspective (April 21, 2013)
From TheBody.com
- Three's a Charm for "Team to End AIDS" Participant Sozit Ayalew (August 20, 2012)
From AIDS United
- From the Sports Desk: Chasing an End to AIDS (July 25, 2012)
From AIDS Foundation of Chicago
 Justin Runs the Rebel Race 2012 (Maryland/DC I): A Blog Entry by Justin B. Terry-Smith (July 19, 2012)
"I love a challenge and I almost thrive on them. In February some of my friends were talking about us doing the Rebel Race. ... There were all sorts of obstacle courses ... we decided to run it."
From TheBody.com
 This Positive Life: Richard Cordova (June 28, 2012)
Richard was given an AIDS diagnosis in 2002. He was devastated -- but not surprised, considering his life of hard partying, meth use and unprotected sex. But since that time, he's rediscovered his passion for life -- and traded drugs for marathons and 200-mile bike rides.
From TheBody.com
 Attack of the Killer Couches, or Why People With HIV and Neuropathy Need to Get Off Our Backsides! Part Two: A Blog Entry by Dave R. (March 30, 2012)
"The whole message of this article is to tailor your activities to your own situation. If five, or ten minutes a day is all you can do, then it's all you can do but it's still so much better than doing nothing. Think of it as prolonging your life maybe just by minutes, or hours, or days and maybe for years!"
From TheBody.com
- Attack of the Killer Couches, or Why People With HIV and Neuropathy Need to Get Off Our Backsides! Part One: A Blog Entry by Dave R. (March 29, 2012)
"I've had to summon up the courage to be arrogant and preach to people about exercise here. Please forgive the bullying tone; it's not my job to tell you what to do with your lives and I am allergic to evangelists of any sort but I do feel it's important to pass the following information on to other people who might be in the same situation."
From TheBody.com
- How I -- and Team4HIVHope -- Got to the Race Across America: A Blog Entry by Steven Berveling (June 10, 2011)
"I recognise that I get stigmatised because I live with HIV, and that stigma affects how I see my own self worth. I want to show that despite me having HIV, I can do these tough sport events like anyone else."
From TheBody.com
 Hitting the Gym With HIV Fitness Stud Nelson Vergel: A Blog Entry by Mark S. King (January 24, 2011)
"In Part Two of my video blog with Nelson Vergel, we hit the gym for a lesson on aerobic activity and weight lifting. With issues like bone density more vital for people with HIV, weight training makes sense."
From TheBody.com
- Ironman Louisville Race Report: Never Give Up -- A Blog Entry by Scott Simpson (September 1, 2010)
"To that guy who ... commented on one of my previous blog entries that I wouldn't / couldn't succeed and finish an Ironman: I've got a finisher's medal you can suck on. Meow."
From TheBody.com
- Gay Games Race Report: A Blog Entry by Scott Simpson (August 19, 2010)
"There are only 2 ways to leave an ironman course -- across the finish line or by ambulance. Which will it be for me?"
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- I Am a Delicate Flower: A Blog Entry by Scott Simpson (July 16, 2010)
My muscles, tendons -- [e]ven my brain, which houses motivation, is ready, willing and able to deal with the physical and mental demands of ironman training. My immune system -- not so much.
From TheBody.com
- Sports and Support: An Entry From an HIV-Positive Athlete -- A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (July 13, 2010)
I am very open about living with HIV and I think most of my teammates know about my status. But since I took three years off from playing soccer, a lot of new players joined my team.
From TheBody.com
- Tom's Excellent Olympic Adventure (Spring/Summer 2010)
One PHA. One Olympic Torch. One experience of a lifetime.
To read PDF, click here.
In The Positive Side, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- American Triple T Race Report: Sick Puppy -- A Blog Entry by Scott Simpson (May 31, 2010)
This is four races in three days ... I'm happy with how my placing improved with each race ... Not bad considering how sick I was and how much I was holding back.
From TheBody.com
- It Ain't Easy: Exercise, HIV and Me: A Blog Entry by Enrique Franco (April 28, 2010)
I didn't want other Soldiers to outperform me ... I wanted to get the stares and, secretly, the possible hook-ups. ... Now, when I am there [at the gym], I am doing it for the sheer fun of it.
From TheBody.com
- Scott Simpson: HIV+ Triathlete: Til I Drop
From TheBody.com
- Biking Transforms Lives of AIDS Housing Residents in Harlem (November 18, 2009)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
- 26 Miles on Foot: Just Another Day for an HIV-Positive Marathoner (March 18, 2008)
From Bay Windows
- Marathon Man (November/December 2004)
At the age of 38 and living with HIV since 1995, Jim Pickett prepares to run his first Chicago Marathon.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
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