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Group Helps People Exercise Outdoors — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: medium · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 5 min · 791 words

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Group Helps People Exercise Outdoors

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

In Edmonton, Alberta, the sun had yet to come up. The temperature was more than 20 degrees below zero. In the dark and cold, Tanis Smith was ready to run up and down hundreds of stairs among the trees in the Saskatchewan River Valley.

And Smith was not alone. Ten people joined her for the activity. All were wearing several layers of clothing to keep warm.

“You're pretty much just putting everything you own on,” said Smith, an accountant. “If you look at the pictures, you don’t know who you are unless you remember what you were wearing.”

Since that winter back in 2013, Smith has rarely missed a workout with a group called November…

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Albert Stumm reported this story for the Associated Press. Anna Matteo adapted it into a lesson for VOA Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/group-helps-people-exercise-outdoors/7872994.html

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