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Boot camp – as usual.
Plumbline Training workout: Warmup x 2 shuffle pushups checkpoints skip jumps Core x 2 partner ball toss 14lb partner situps 25 reverse high 5 pushups workout 20,16,14,12,10 65lb split jerks (since my foot is still bruised and sore, I modified this today and did push presses) 100 jump rope wall ball squats 200m run 25lb…
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Earth Day Celebrates its 40th Anniversary on April 22, 2010
Here is a great manageable list of things you can do with your family to celebrate Earth Day. It’s the little things that make a big difference in our lives and in the Earth. Starting kids early learning about treating Mother Nature well helps set up a strong foundation for their future and ours. A…
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Weighing the Evidence on Exercise
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise – NYTimes.com. How exercise affects body weight is one of the more intriguing and vexing issues in physiology. Exercise burns calories, no one doubts that, and so it should, in theory, produce weight loss, a fact that has prompted countless people to undertake exercise programs to shed pounds. Without significantly…
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Chilly Morning Surprises
It was again chilly this AM and we lost some soldiers in the camp because of it. The beginning and end of the outside boot camp seasons tend to be tough. It’s damn cold outside an at 530AM – it really is the last thing you want to deal with. Plumbline Workout: warm-up rockette kicks…
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Reuse, Recycle & Reduce: Kids Konserve
I recently read about this product: Kids Konserve: A Common Theme … Helping The Environment. Sounds like a great company with a very good mission. I am always looking for ways to reduce our families footprint. I’m not perfect but where I can, I do. I am sure we all have ways we are trying…
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A crisp day for a run!
As much as I wanted to sleep in today – I had made plans to meet a co-worker/friend of mine James who started running 3 weeks ago. He is doing a 5k next week and has been running to get ready for it. We met on the W&OD trail. If you remember, I told my…
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We miss you Scully.
I have to take a minute today and remember my dog Scully. It was one year ago today that we had to put our beloved lady down because of cancer. We think about her a lot still. Nate still talks about her. I saw a black dog yesterday in a car and teared up. It…
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Free entry to all National Parks starts today!
To make it easier to experience America’s Great Outdoors, the National Park Service is waiving entrance fees, so visitors can enjoy all 392 national parks for free April 17-25. What a great way to spend the day getting some exercise and exploring with your family.
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National Volunteer Week 2010: April 18 -24
National Volunteer Week 2010 Celebrating People in Action April 18 – 24, 2010 Join us as we celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to transform their communities! Tell us how you or someone you know has made an impact – share your stories, videos and photos of outstanding volunteers here. Celebrate these change agents and…
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Saturdays in Suburbia
Some of you may remember that I was scheduled for the Bluemont Vineyard 5k today. Well – Scott had to go to NYC yesterday for business and will not be home until this afternoon – so I had to bow out of it. I was bummed until yesterday when I realized that Thursday’s Plumbline workout…