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Two mile swim!
So, bored with the mile? Looking for a new goal? How about a two miler? :bigsmile: That's 3,600 yards if you are doing round statute miles (1,760 yards but most folks do 1,800) or if you are into the "swimming competition mile", then that's 3,300 yards. For those of you in any other country, yards are pretty useless so a…
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Tour de France discussion thread
This is for you, TDSeest, and for you, SteveCro, and anyone else who is interested in discussion the Grandest of the Grand Tours. What is a Grand Tour? It's a bicycle race that has 21 days of bike racing spread over 23 calendar days. Only three exist, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta Espana. The Tour…
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Food safety experts say they won't eat these 7 foods
http://www.examiner.com/healthy-trends-in-atlanta/food-safety-experts-say-they-won-t-eat-these-7-foods Food safety experts say they won't eat these 7 foods Kelly George Atlanta Healthy Trends Examiner Want to know the foods that the “food safety experts” won’t eat? Prevention Magazine decided to ask. They posed the…
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What's really making us fat?
I still subscribe to the calories in/calories out idea but this article did make me think about other possible explanations: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/whats-really-making-us-fat/254087/2/?single_page=true So, how do we avoid things we don't even know are in some foods?
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Your favorite state parks
We moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas about 18 months ago. This past fall we dusted off our old camping gear and when camping and hiking in several state parks within a reasonable drive. We love Arkansas state parks! So far we have camped and/or hiked, several times in some cases, in the following state parks: Mount Magazine,…
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Rajiv Dubey is awesome! Congratulate him here!
Rajiv (RajivDubey), who weighed almost 200 pounds last June when he started his weight loss journey, finished a 207 km biking brevet yesterday. That's 126.8 miles for those of us in the USA. 126.8 miles! Is he awesome or what? well, here's the kicker, he was the first to finish! So, here's a place to post your…
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la Vuelta a España CYCLING CHALLENGE [aka Tour of Spain]
Greetings cycling enthusiasts! The Vuelta a España starts on Saturday, August 20. For the uninitiated, that is the Tour of Spain, one of the three grand tours, which include Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España [France, Italy and Spain]. Like all grand tours, generally, la Vuelta involves 21 days of racing…
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Tour de France CHALLENGE!
Alrighty now, today is the first day of the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race on earth. 198 of the best cyclists start the race today (stage one is happening right now) and the ones who survive ride up to 140 miles (on the longest day) for 21 days of the next 23 days (so they get two "rest days" on which they will…
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Review of MFP v. WW apps/websites
Since I have been a long time user of WeightWatchers.com and of the WW iPhone app, I thought some would find a comparison of the WW and MFP apps useful. One of my MFP friends asked me to write about it, so here it is. I was pretty used to the WW system after many years of using the website and a year of using the iPhone…
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Cycling and calories burned...?
Some issues with the calories burned measurements on MFP for cycling. ----> Flat v. Hills I'm a bit chuffed with the choices for recording my bike rides. Yes, I sometimes average under 10mph (easy/leisurely according to MFP) when riding hard in the neighborhood (short hill after hill after hill). If I do an hour at 10mph…
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Newbie here...
Just got back on the bandwagon in late May. I'm trying to take off some weight and get more regular about exercise (again) Normally, I need a goal for exercise motivation (i.e. something to train for), so I need to sort something out there. I have done triathlons before but am not running at all this year due to a nagging…
