{"id":239100,"date":"2022-08-16T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparrowcreativestudios.com\/?p=239100"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:14:50","slug":"red-dogs-dog-days-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparrowcreativestudios.com\/index.php\/red-dogs-dog-days-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m proud to be a Red Dog’s Dog Days sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re in the Lawrence, KS community, chances are you’ve heard about Red Dog’s Dog Days<\/a>. If you’re not from around here, buckle up, cause this story is a fun one for me to share. Since moving to Lawrence more than a decade ago, I knew about Red Dog’s Dog Days but hadn’t had the chance to attend. This year, I was proud to be a Red Dog’s Dog Days sponsor.<\/p>\n

What is Red Dog’s Dog Days?<\/h2>\n

Don Gardner, known affectionately as Red Dog \u2014 I’m largely assuming because he was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps<\/a>, and Marines are also known as Devil Dogs \u2014 created a summer workout program that’s open to anyone who wants to show up. Red Dog started this program in 1984, and back then it was designed for football players at Lawrence High School<\/a> who needed extra workouts in the summer. My husband, who played for LHS, attended these workouts when he was in high school. And at some point, Red Dog opened the program up to the entire community.<\/p>\n

There’s also been talk that the Guinness Book of World Records<\/a> considered including this program in their records, but they don’t actually have “largest community workout” as something they measure, so it’s not officially recorded anywhere. But there was some coverage about it in 2009 and you can actually see my husband in it working out back then, as an adult, at the :42 second mark in this video. He’s been going for years!<\/p>\n