Outdoors

Training: Position yourself for athletic success

Are you discouraged by your results in your favorite sport? Have you wondered why you can't seem to improve, no matter how hard you train? If so, the answer may be found in the way you position yourself. Literally.

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Mountain bikes now have three wheel sizes

Last spring, I was cruising the Foothills on my full-suspension mountain bike with 26-inch wheels. Like a lot of mountain bikers, I was curious about mountain bikes with super-sized wheels.
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Off the beaten path on Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak is much more than a 14,115-foot heap of uplifted granite.
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Mud runs gaining popularity

Amanda Alarcon Banks likes to spend her afternoons crawling on her stomach trying to avoid touching dangling wires carrying live electrical current.
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Motivational quotes and posters can get you going

Long before there was Pinterest and Google Plus, I loved a good exercise quote splashed onto a workout themed image.
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Lookout at San Francisco's Lands End

Irrational, I know, but it bummed me out, in a breaking-the-spell sort of way, when two tour buses pulled up at the recently remodeled Lands End Lookout visitors center and dumped off a gaggle of slumping, weary tourists.
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Fitness Success: 5 great ways to make fitness and weight loss easier

Most people think that the key to taking off the weight (fat) and keeping off the fat (or staying in shape) is just willpower and self-discipline.
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Training: Fix it yourself

You're ready to ride. Then you see it - your bike has a flat tire. As always. As it does very single year!
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Surfer moms are catching the wave more and more

Beth Schub started surfing with one of her uncles on Long Island when she was 13, but she went off to college in Pennsylvania and later settled there after getting married, she thought she was pretty much done with the sport.
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Kids learning to ride a bike? Book may help

Chris Raschka, a winner of the Caldecott Medal, which honors the year's best picture book for kids, has released "Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle."
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Yaffbars: Share this people food with 'your best friend'

Into the overstuffed outdoors energy-bar market comes a new entrant ï¿½ YaffBars.