Six Times the Calories
Friday, August 15th, 2008
If this is true, then I pray Mr Phelps doesn’t end up having severe health problems later on!
***Update: H/T to Anwyn (and apologies for forgetting in the first place!)***
Archive for the 'Fitness & Health' Category
Heroes Run 2008
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Mr Gary Patriquin is sponsoring the 2008 Heroes Run in Lockport, IL in honor of CPT Travis Patriquin and service members killed in Iraq. It will be 9 Aug 2008 at 0800. It starts at the Lockport High School, 1323 E. Seventh St., Lockport, IL 60441.
You can choose from a [...]
Weltanschauung Friends in the News (III)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Rob T. did something pretty amazing after running his first eight marathons: He ran the Antarctica marathon! (I didn’t even know there was such an event). He and some friends and family put together a short video on YouTube about it.
The event was run on King [...]
Fini Ski at Appi
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
My wife and some friends and I all went to Appi to get some skiing in. This would likely be my last skiing trip from Misawa, as I’m due to be reassigned before next winter.
I started off on the black slopes and tried some of the techniques my friend Trigger [...]
Ski Hachimantai
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Yesterday my family and a friend of my wife’s all caravan’d out to Hachimantai to try some skiing there. We hit the Panorama side, which had six or seven easy and well-groomed runs (two or so had decent powder in the morning that was gone by midday, since it wasn’t snowing). The other families [...]
Ski Hakkoda
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Today my wife and kid went to the Hakkoda ski area with Shep and his family. Getting there and back was more time-consuming than normal, one of the roads up the mountain was closed, and all of them were snowy (fortunately not icy). The Sheps are snowboarders, so it was my first time both [...]
Appi Kogen Revisited
Monday, December 24th, 2007
Christina, the kid, and I took off with friends Deuce and Pitch and their families and spent Christmas Eve skiing at Appi. We had a lot of fun, of course! Having brought the baby with us meant that one of us would have to babysit while the other hit the slopes! Lucky for us it had snowed [...]
If the Mountain Won’t Go to You
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Last Thursday our friends Paul, Andrea, and their kids, plus my wife and I all took a nine-hour bus ride to Tokyo. The next day we all got up really, really early (that would be early as in "What does the ‘O’ in oh-three-hundred mean? ‘O-my-goodness it’s early!"), we handed the kids off to my [...]
Return to Okunakayama
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Christina and I hit the slopes for our anniversary today. Christina taught a couple kids the basics of skiing while I warmed up. I’m getting better at the black slopes, and I even got to try some powder today. I felt like I was doing pretty well. Christina finished her class and we [...]
Ski Okunakayama (or as I Say, “Not Appi”)
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Christina and I took the day off and went skiing again. Christina is going to try to become a skiing instructor, and the instructor course starts soon, so she wanted to get in a day of good practice with her favorite student, me! Okunakayama was a little closer than Appi resort, and it had [...]