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Entries for April, 2008

Climbing The Ladder Of Fitness

If you are finding it difficult to get started living a more active life, maybe you just need a simple, no cost method.  Over on Get Fit Slowly there was a post yesterday about the Lifetime Fitness Ladder.  I found it very interesting for a couple of reasons.

It is simple and straight forward- There are [...]

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Planning Out My Century Ride

This coming Saturday I will do my first century ride in almost three years. Since it has been a while since I’ve ridden 100 miles in one day I want to make sure that I am as prepared as possible. Based on my experience, about 15 centuries, I know that there are a few key [...]

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Weekly Activity Update #9

Here is the update of my weekly activity.  Sorry for the delay in getting the update out.  With the trip last week and the resulting extra work from the time off, I have been extremely busy.  I’ll summarize last week and this week in one post to catch up.
Cycling
Last week I rode Monday thru Wednesday [...]

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Weekly Activity Update #8

This past week was another good week overall in terms of activity. I am really concentrating on “fine-tuning” my fitness for the century ride I will be doing May 3rd so weightlifting was not on the agenda again this week.
Cycling
This week was another good week for cycling. I rode 4 days with one of those [...]

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Lentils-A Small But Powerful Food

Lentils are a small member of the bean, or legume, food group. They are easy to cook, full of nutrition, and taste great. Next to black beans they are my favorite bean. I use them in soups and salads, as a substitute for potatoes or rice, and even as the main course in some of [...]

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