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AR: Do you train year-round, or is there an off-season/on-season?
SE: I might perform better if I took a month or two off each year – most of the top competitors do. But I’m really more interested in doing what I love – running – than in winning races. I do cross-train (bicycle, ski, snowshoe, aerobics) whenever the running starts to feel stale or tedious.
What would ever possess someone to want to go out and run 100 miles? After spending a year running regularly with a group of people who consider this “fun” in some warped way, the author finally gave in to her curiosity and approached experienced ultra-runner Stephanie Ehret in pursuit of the answer to this question. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, at 38 Ehret is one of the best ultra-distance runners in the country (ultra-distance means longer than a marathon). Ehret’s dedicated attitude and her obvious passion for the sport have garnered her top finishes in many events, such her first-place overall (both male and female) in the 1999 Across the Years 24-hour race, as well as sponsorships by Montrail, Patagonia and Clif Bar. So just how does someone get involved in this intense sport, and what, exactly, does it take?
Have you always had beautiful long healthy fingernails? Or are you among those whose nails always seem to be breaking, chipping or splitting? Your diet or your overall health may be the reason.
Our body produces fingernails. They are a fibrous protein called keratin and one of the body’s strongest tissues. Like the rest of the body, nail health depends on getting the proper nutrients to maintain their natural color and shape.
The White Stripes third release is reviewed.
The White Stripes’ third LP White Blood Cells (Sympathy For the Record Industry) consolidates their preeminence as a band that shakes your ass. Happily free of any pretense of self-pity or melancholy, the White Stripes write nasty songs, blistering numbers, bizarre little ditties, and postmodern country melodrama. This album is a far more crisply produced affair than the two before it. The basic formula remains intact: Meg White plays drums, Jack White sings and plays guitar, the album is largely red and white, and the songs are propulsive and punchy, bluesy throughout and country inflected in places.
It sounds so sexy and seductive…easing your aching body into a frothy, swirling vat of soothing hot water after a hard day on the slopes. Complete the picture with the presence of your latest (or lifetime) romantic interest and the knowledge that a gourmet meal and a bottle of chilled bubbly await you back inside. What more could you ask for? How about some expert confirmation that your time spent in the hot tub does more than just put you “in the mood”?
Rock gardens look like a lot of work to most people. Moving rocks into place, planting it, and keeping it weeded can be time consuming. If you are disabled, it’s impossible. Rock gardens are possible if they are planned correctly. Read this article to learn more.
Gardening is my passion. I was really disgruntled when physical challenges meant that I needed to cut back or even give up my outdoor gardening. My large perennial beds required a great deal of weeding and general maintenance. This was rather difficult to accomplish from a lawn chair. It was time for some drastic changes.
Dating back to 500 B.C. in Egypt and Rome, this veggie was known as an expensive specialty and in France it was known for the aristocracy only.
Description: Artichokes are like a flower bud or can look like green pine cones. It is native to the Mediterranean region where this part of the world has the lowest rates of chronic disease. Because of the amount of effort it takes to clean this veggie, it is not thought of as an “everyday” vegetable. The fresh taste is definitely worth the effort. If you are short on time, you can buy ready-to-eat hearts in cans or jars from your grocery. Generally you would not use artichokes as a main course since only 20 percent of the leaf is eaten but can be used successfully as an hors d’oeuvre. The edible parts are the heart of the flower bud and the leaf sections.
Lots of readers in Japan, for some odd reason, asked Hair to Toes how they can become chefs…the “real French kind”. Here’s our exclusive article on making culinary delights your career.
Training for the world of cuisine starts early in France; by the age of 16, chef wanna-be’s are applying for the CAP or the certificat d’aptitude professionnelle, or the BEP; the brevet d’etudes professionnelles. Both the CAP and the BEP teach the fundamentals pretty rigorously, but the brevet is more technically oriented.
Calvin comes home, as usual, on the 5:30 train. With this being Friday, his spirits are high and his head filled with plans for a nice weekend.
His wife, Kelly, greets him in the kitchen with a warm, “Hello.” She’s tossing the salad by hand while their son Jack sets the table. Calvin sits down and takes a drink from the iced tea that’s beside his plate, then says, “Let’s do something tonight.”
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