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Switched from the deep-fried Twinkies? Used low-fat oil? Zone Diet, sort of. Lay on the daily cod liver oil. Hardest was giving up peanut butter. Also, zero alcohol. But, 70% cocoa chocolate is A-OK, so there's an upside.

No, just plain old livestock paddocks.

About 1 out of every 3 CF warmups---the warmup, mind you---is so hard I am sure it is harder than some people's workout. Sometimes we run 10 easy 1/2 or 3/4 speed 50 yard sprints uphill including all the other warmup crap. A warmup! THEN the workout, like: 15 squats, 10 pushups, 5 pullups every 60 seconds for 30 minutes. Or, 5 880s with each run separated by 25 burpees and a 1 RM deadlift. Or 100 24kg kettlebell swings and 100 pullups. A couple weeks ago a woman did the last workout with us then got on her bicycle to ride home from Ballard to West Seattle. Coach said without irony, 'hey that's a nice cooldown.'

In January 2005 I was 25 lbs. heavier and my BP was 190/100. I changed my choices. The beer & Twinkies diet was simply NOT WORKING anymore.

I still kicked your ass up to camp muir. OK, OK...but if we ran 880s...

BP 110/55, resting pulse 43: Cross Fit and I'm a LOT older than almost anyone on this board

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/735505/page/0/fpart/6#Post735165 This is you?

Testicular cancer? How'd that get into the thread?

Plus, lots of goats around Enumclaw.

Just in the last week or ten days I saw an article that said people who lost weight and kept it off had all sorts of different approaches to food but the one common factor across the entire sample was regular, vigorous exercise.

Was there banjo music wafting through the trees?

Yo momma so fat she has to use the driveway for an ironing board!

You can also use goats as pack animals. Reportedly they are quite cooperative and humbly follow along with you wherever you go. They are more sure-footed than mules and, being smaller, they can fit through ruggeder country than mules. Unfortunately, in most mountains in the western U.S. once you sack out for the night they become cougar snacks.

In fact there are quite a few farm operations in western Washington that have goatherds they rent out for land clearing. A couple years ago I took the 9-month Small Farming class at WSU-Puyallup where the method was discussed. Sitting here at work I can't recall any names but I'll guess there are at least 6. If you are clearing land to be used for agriculture, you'll need to get the roots too. The method of using animals for this extends to a finish operation using pigs. The goats take everything down to ground level, then you set up paddocks and let pigs loose. They thoroughly churn up the ground looking for grubs, tearing up the roots as they go. A pretty easy fork pass (tractor pulling a ground fork) finishes it up and your land is ready for whatever soil prep you need. Yes, there are operations that rent pigs for that, too. This goat-pig thing will knock out any blackberries for keeps, safer and cheaper than any herbicide, plus if you want an organic cert for your operation this is the only way to go.

I PM'ed him. In our own way, each of us has judged the other's character without ever meeting, thanks to cc.com.

How about when he climbs 13's barefoot? I dunno, does he chalk his feet?

I thought this was something about a spiritual connection to the rock. Like Bill Murray's character in Caddyshack: "BE the sloper!"

So you would need the high pressure model, I see. The hand pump would not be enough.

I wish my blow-up doll looked like her! I mean, IF I had a blow up doll.

Sharma, smarma. It's the shoes.

aw, shucks

"ascentionst" wooo, mighty fancy word sounds like the column title of the New Yorker's climbing critic

As in, it reminds you of some earlier film?

Who would do this? Is there a cc.com archrival out there trying to vacuum our bandwidth? Like a Jewish deli with a Muslim client base, dogs & cats, Mazamas and Mounties?

I don't know what you mean by "new driving laws" but many years ago I was told the state patrol goes after only crazy speeders because the faster you go, the more unsafe you are. They wait for people going heinous speeds. While they write a ticket for 63 in a 60 zone, they'll be passed by 3 cars going 80, so they ignore the easy prey to wait for the fat game. I was told that up to 9 mph over and they don't care. I have always followed the '9 over' rule and *never* been pulled over. I tested my speedometer: it registers 4 high (speedo reads 60, actual speed 56) so I set my cruise control on 73 (actual speed 69) and routinely pass through radar traps on the highway. In 70 mph zones I set the cruise on 83 (actual speed 79). I have never been stopped or looked at. Obviously in the city, 39 in a 30 zone is a different matter---the 9 over rule is for highways.