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It Takes Two to Tandem
This past June, Tracey Petervary, a 37-year-old accountant and endurance mountain biker for Fitzgerald’s Bicycles living in Victor, Idaho, was half of the first-ever tandem team to start and finish the...
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The Arizona Trail
January 12, I was simultaneously cursing and thanking Dale Shewalter. I hadn’t ever met the man, an elementary school teacher in Flagstaff, Arizona for 30-some years. And I won’t get the chance to meet...
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Dina’s Food Journal: The Home Stretch
Perhaps today isn’t the best day for me to write my first post about working with nutritionist and fellow 2010 Featured Athlete Aimee Gallo. I made myself chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. And have...
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Dina’s Food Journal: Allergy Elimination Diet
The last time I came to you I was eating cookie dough. Quite a bit of it. With chocolate chips and peanut butter M&Ms in it. What am I eating this time around? Brown rice. With a few pieces of...
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MAKING THE MOST OF A LACK OF MOTIVATION It’s August. I should be well into biking 10,400 miles as a way to spread the word and raise money for the non-profit I founded earlier this year, Never Too Weak...
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A Sporty Spa That’s Good for the Spirit
On a bus in San Diego heading to a spa just across the border in Mexico, I was very afraid. I was not afraid of being beheaded by Mexican drug lords like the media warned of. Neither was I afraid of...
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Great (lack of) Expectations
I’ve done Lotoja, a 206-mile road bike race from Logan, Utah to Teton Village, Wyoming four times. The longest single-day sanctioned road race in the country, Lotoja is a mental and physical challenge....
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Soaking up the Heat in Yellowstone’s Backcountry
Confession time: 1. I have lived in Jackson Hole for 13 years without ever venturing into the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. Of course I had hit Old Faithful, Mammoth, the Grand Canyon of...
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Kosrae: The Mysterious Paradise Island
Of course Kosrae’s unofficial storyteller stutters. At least when he speaks English, which he learned — and is still learning, he says — completely from tourists visiting this 42-square mile...
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Steep & Deep
A confession: I live in Jackson, Wyoming and am not an awesome skier. I am far from awesome, in fact. Not really starting to ski until moving here at the ripe age of 21, then skiing in the backcountry...
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