Pocket Favorite: Industry Influence on Our Dietary Guidelines

The story behind the first U.S. dietary guidelines explains why, to this day, the decades of science supporting a more plant-based diet have yet to fully translate into public policy. via Pocket http://nutritionfacts.org/2013/10/22/big-food-wants-final-say-over-health-reports/

New PlantEaters iPhone App to Locate Restaurants with Plant-Based Options

New PlantEaters iPhone App to Locate Restaurants with Plant-Based Options  

Haute Route 2013-Day 3-Champex to La Chable-Easy Day

We enjoyed a nice breakfast at the Hotel du Glacier first thing in the morning, then returned back to the room to finish drying out our laundry. We had direct sunlight on our balcony and it was a bright blue sky day. Our clothes dried out in no time. We got packed up and were …

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Heart Rate Variability 101

How to read your SweetBeat numbers – Heart rate variability.

Haute Route 2013-Day 2-Trient to Champex du Lac-Goin’ Bovine

Sunsetting behind the Mountains on Lac du Champex

We rose early around 6:30PM to try and beat the possible mad rush for breakfast. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to do that. It was so crazy and stressful at breakfast with so many people in the place. People were also very rude and were almost knocking you over to get to the food. An older …

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Haute Route 2013-Day 1-Chamonix to Trient-The Journey Begins…

We finished packing up bags after a good breakfast. I think I had about 3 croissants with Nutella. As we were packing, I was sifting through the receipts I had laying on the night stand and noticed the ones from Denise’s hiking shoes. I asked her if she wanted them and we noticed that the …

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Haute Route 2013-Geneva to Chamonix

It was a quick two and a half hour flight to Geneva from Stockholm. We quickly made our way through passport control and into the baggage claim. I hunted around for a ATM while we waited for our one checked bag to hopefully come around the conveyor belt. We only check a bag because our …

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Haute Route 2013-A Long Layover in Stockholm

Before I knew it, we were on our way to Newark Airport to begin our journey to Switzerland. I was still dealing with the realization that Ironman was over and now we were on our to begin the trip we had planned back in January of this year(2013). We planned it so far ahead that …

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The Ironman Hangover

Wow…seems like ages since I actually posted anything on here. The first few weeks after completing Ironman Lake Placid were a bit of a roller-coaster of thoughts and emotions. I had made several attempts to write about, but I was still in the midst of the ups-and-downs and could not really absorb what was going …

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My Ironman Lake Placid 2013 Video

FinisherPix did videos for each triathlete in the race. Pretty amazing how they got me in each transition area. Actually they probably got everyone too.