Health

Everyone Knows One

2011/11/11
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Shared via facebook from the speedy Mr.Horn.

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Down Hills Are Easy

2011/11/07
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Down Hills Are Easy

 Mr. Murray cleaned up at the Banff Winterstart race this past weekend. Ryan crossed the line stopping the clock at 29:18 which grabbed him a 12th place finish in the popular November race. When asked how he thought the race went Ryan said “with all this extra chin weight...

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The Iron Story

2011/10/31
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The Iron Story

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered....

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Beer Mile Legends

2011/10/03
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Beer Mile Legends

The Beer Mile is getting closer…. as a last ditch effort I have started to distribute these around the city. Info on the Beer Mile can be found HERE Rules for the Beer Mile click HERE  

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Bike Lane

2011/06/08
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Now that Calgary has started to get a few bike lanes I thought this video might be appropriate.  Lets hope Calgary Police don’t start enforcing these “laws”.  

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We Need a League Of Performance-Enhanced Athletes

2011/06/05
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The use of performance enhancers in sports is inevitable. Celebrating it instead of banning it would make competition safer, more honest, and more fun. Sports are supposed to be pure-that’s why there are rules and referees; that’s why the first Olympians competed in the nude. It’s also the reason...

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Sitting is Killing You.

2011/05/17
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Sitting is Killing You.

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health. From...

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Achilles Tendinitis (Tendinopathy)

2011/05/17
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My week of biking out in BC has come to a girding halt. I have Achilles Tendinitis (Tendinopathy)…. but, this is just a self diagnosis . After a ride to Cochrane the other week my achilles got a bit sore. I just assumed it was because I hadn’t ridden in a...

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Talk About Not Quitting

2011/04/23
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Heather Dorniden falls down during the race and…… watch….

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To Young To Remeber

2011/04/21
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The first Womens Olympic Marathon saw a courageous move by young Joan Benoit of the Unites States. A few months removed from surgery she dared the field (and herself) to follow an early blistering pace. 1984 LA Olympics, the year that the women’s marathon was introduced…..

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Scary, but you knew that.

2011/04/09
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Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050. Minorities have been even more profoundly affected. African-Americans have a 50 per cent higher prevalence of...

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The Bicycle City

2011/04/09
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What happens to an impoverished developing nation town when you flood it with 20,000 bicycles? You lift three times that number of people out of poverty. Pedals for Progress and founder David Schweidenback have been shipping used American bicycles to Rivas, Nicaragua for the last two decades and the...

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Coming from Sudan

2011/04/06
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I found this video incredibly interesting.  It was posted on National Geographic website and it really points out the differences between cultures. The boys in this video are from Sudan and have made the flight over to America… just watch

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Lance Deposition Leaked

2011/02/18
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@gdnicholson posted this and thought it was intresting enough to post here - Videos of Lance Armstrong’s testimony in the 2005 SCA case leaked. This is one of the Many videos posted on the NYVelocity site… head on over to http://nyvelocity.com/content/features/2011/armstrong-sca-deposition-videos for the rest. Check out this list of top...

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Get Fit

2011/01/28
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In an effort to get fit now that summer is just around the corner i’ve taken it upon myself to find workouts that fit my schedule. Some are more effective than other but the overall goal of a ‘lean mean carson machine’ will be achieved sooner or latere. This...

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The New Beer Mile

2011/01/13
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This is the first year the Eggnog Challenge has been held in Utah. Not only was this a great year but a world record was set at altitude. This annual challenge brings all runners alike together to celebrate their love or hate for this holiday drink. Run and lap...

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Dirt to Work by WTB

2010/10/22
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Sent to me by the slowest man on earth – or so i think Ten feet or ten miles, whatever it takes. On May 13th — bike to work day — Take some time to appreciate the natural world around you. Whether it’s the path through the park or...

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Turning 30

2010/10/18
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Turning 30

Hello there, I am a new contributor to triplec, speaking to you through the medium of writing. I’m one of Carson’s buddies, he has been fairly busy with school and feels bad for neglecting his blog and his fan-base. A while ago I posted a little joke-note on facebook...

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The 120lbs Journey

2010/09/18
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Its been a while since i have posted but i have been damn busy.  School started the day I got back from San Fran and its already starting to pile up on me.  I’ll do my best to post at least once a week but i might have to...

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This is crazy

2010/08/27
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This is crazy

As 33 miners enter their third week trapped 688 metres underground, the logistics of keeping them alive has been reduced to a single dimension: 12cm. “That’s the size of the tube by which we can supply them,” said the Chilean health minister, Jaime Mañalich. “Everything we develop must be...

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