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One of the truly pleasant aspects of exercising is that you have plenty of options.
Swimming for your health For years, experts have been saying that swimming is great for your health and simply one of the best exercises out there. Yet, many of the benefits of swimming are unclear to the average person. So what really makes swimming such a wonderful exercise? Swimming uses almost all the major muscle…
Make Walking a Part of Your Everyday Life It’s less costly than a gym membership, more fun that a stationary bike, more convenient than swimming, and easier on the muscles and joints than running. Many would-be pedestrians never take the first step toward making walking the center of their fitness regimen. Some get tripped up…
Walk Your Way to Good Health! The simplest, safest, and least expensive exercise is walking. But how fast should you walk? Research has shown that walking at speeds of 3.5 to 4.5 miles an hour – that’s brisk walking, not strolling – produces cardiovascular benefits. A woman of average size can walk comfortably at brisk…
The biggest one-day ultra-marathon cycling event in the Pacific Northwest is RAMROD [Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day]. It combines the breathtaking beauty of Mount Rainier National Park with a strenuous 152-mile course that climbs 10,000 feet. John Dixon organized the first RAMROD competition in 1984, which had 45 finishers in total. The gathering…
Bike Routes Went for a great bike ride today. A friend of ours likes to cobble bike routes together on Google Maps and then go ride them. We go along as willing victims. “We” in this case would be me, my husband, my best friend, her husband, and another friend. This other friend and her…
At Least I Exercised Well, it just goes to show you sometimes you think one thing is going to happen and then you get something entirely different! Went for a short bike ride this afternoon. Before I left the house I was feeling energetic and looked forward to getting out and hammering on the pedals….
Charmed Life Sometimes you have to believe you lead a charmed life…Ann, Mark and I went for a great bike ride today. “Tour de Peaks” is an organized ride that travels through the neighborhoods of North Bend and Snoqualmie. The scenery was outstanding, the roads for the most part were good, but what made this…
First off, let me say that this is a “do as I say and not as I do” lesson….as a fitness trainer, I would never advise anyone I know to do what we did. With that being said, I can go on to say that I am totally AMAZED that we finished this ride and…
I haven’t mentioned the weather We were all really lucky. The majority of the morning was overcast with a little fog hanging in the valley when we started. Perfect riding temperature. The fog started to burn off by the time we got into Mt. Rainier National Park (high 70s?) but was not unbearable. So I…