Category Archives: Fitness & Health

Six Times the Calories

Posted on Fri, 15 August 2008 by Chris Penningroth

     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!)***

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Heroes Run 2008

Posted on Sat, 26 July 2008 by Chris Penningroth

     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, … Continue reading →

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Weltanschauung Friends in the News (III)

Posted on Wed, 19 March 2008 by Chris Penningroth

     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 … Continue reading →

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Fini Ski at Appi

Posted on Sat, 02 February 2008 by Chris Penningroth

     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 … Continue reading →

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Ski Hachimantai

Posted on Sun, 13 January 2008 by Chris Penningroth

     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 … Continue reading →

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Ski Hakkoda

Posted on Mon, 31 December 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     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 … Continue reading →

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Appi Kogen Revisited

Posted on Mon, 24 December 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     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 … Continue reading →

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If the Mountain Won’t Go to You

Posted on Sun, 15 July 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     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’ … Continue reading →

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Return to Okunakayama

Posted on Sat, 17 February 2007 by Chris Penningroth

    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.  … Continue reading →

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Ski Okunakayama (or as I Say, “Not Appi”)

Posted on Sat, 13 January 2007 by Chris Penningroth

    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 … Continue reading →

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