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Fit Challenge: Week 3 Update

Breakfast

I’ve completed the first three weeks of my Fit Challenge. This week I lost one pound, bringing my three week total to 9 lbs. I was disappointed in the apparent drop, but Gina at Outdoor Fitness Adventure Club reminded me what one pound of butter looks and feels like. The photo to the right shows [...]

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Fit Challenge Week 2 Results

Candid Camera

Two weeks ago I began a “Fit Challenge” at San Clemente’s Outdoor Fitness Adventure Club. I’ve adapted their eating plan to incorporate Tim Ferriss’ “Slow Carb” plan from his book The 4-Hour Body, including the free day. The first four days I stuck to the detox plan (all described in this post, with a photo of [...]

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Fitness Challenge #2

detox soup

“If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.” – Count Rugen (The Princess Bride) 2010 was a banner year for fitness, personally. I had set a goal to hike the entire John Muir Trail — plus some — and backpacked over 230 miles in three weeks, culminated by summiting Mt. Whitney, the [...]

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Running a marathon?

Some of you already know that I’m in training for the San Diego Rock-and-Roll Marathon on June 3rd. But what you may not know is why I’m running. I’m running with a team of people raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I need your support. Your donation will go to research, patient aid [...]