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Groats Are Good Stuff...
January 27, 2012
The Scoop on Oatmeal
By Marni Sumbal (for usatriathlon.org)
I love oats. I find myself getting creative with oatmeal and not just eating it for breakfast, and I typically use instant oats and add in fruits, raisins and nuts. I've never used steel cut oats but I'm always open to trying new things. Although any food that undergoes processing will be lower in certain vitamins and minerals than a highly processed food, I am not suggesting that you have to use steel cut oats over instant.
For most of us, we choose from three different types of oatmeal. While oats provide a number of health benefits, some kinds of oatmeal are better than others.
I found this on Chow.com:....
Spinning With The Pros....
January 26, 2012
Rub shoulders with the Pros.
Join OptumHealth Performance for a fun, FREE event to meet the 2012 men's and women's Optum Pro Cycling team where you'll enjoy full access to talk to the riders and coaches of the team, including 2011 Nature Valley Grand Prix champion Jesse Anthony and 2012 Olympic hopeful Janel Holcomb.
Enjoy the sponsor expo where you'll get to check out the Pro's gear and learn what it takes to fuel these riders.
Come early, the first 50 attendees get a free Optum t-shirt that you can have autographed by the team.
Ride one of the team bikes on our CompuTrainers to see how your cycling power measures up against a Pro rider....
CX Stuff....
January 25, 2012
How I Spent My “Off” Season and/or Doing Stupid Things So You Don’t Have To...
By Jason Digman
One of the greatest things about endurance sports, in my opinion, is the fact that we’ve created all these different absurd things to do, and somehow we’ve gotten others to join us. Why would I want to swim and bike before running a long way? Why would I want to ride my bike around a park in cold weather while occasionally jumping off to run up hills too steep or slippery to ride up? The second of the stupid options I just mentioned, and by stupid I mean that in the best way possible, is cyclocross. This fall and winter I did some fun races and this article is about those adventures.
I’ve been involved in multisport since 1997 having done all sort of races. I really enjoy the challenge and fun of multisport, it’s why I spend so much time surrounded by it. Over the last few years, I have developed an interest in cyclocross as well, in some ways it’s the yin and yang of triathlon. At a larger level they have similarities, i.e. riding a bike, but the specifics and feeling of each are quite different. Before getting into this in too much depth, I should briefly recap the gist of cyclocross for those of you who are not very familiar with it.
Bard Loving 'Shroom Picker....
January 24, 2012
Going Off Course - Have you ever hiked gaspingly to the top of what you thought was a pointy-top mountain and discovered that it didn't really have a pointy top? Talk about disappointment! 
When Twin Citizen triathlete Tiffany Storms (photo L) arrived at the top of Mount Normandale, the least-publicized member of Colorado's 14,000+ foot Collegiate Peaks (the others are Mt. Harvard, Mt. Oxford, Mt. Stanford, Mt. Columbia and Mt. Yale), she found that there was enough room up there to park a couple of rock star tour buses. She had hoped to be able to balance on the point for a full minute, sorta like the guy in the photo (R), which she later learned wasn't real. (The guy was Photoshopped into the pic. If you enlarge the shot you'll be able to see a rock star tour bus parked alongside the heel of his left foot.)
A few years have passed and Tiffany, who is very, very pretty and looks great in an Ironman beanie, can finally laugh about her dispiriting mountain adventure....
Triathlon Legs Are Good...
January 24, 2012
ED. We filched this motivating story and images from Craig Alexander's Facebook page.
A new study called, "Chronic Exercise Preserves Lean Muscle Mass in Masters Athletes," which you can read HERE graphically illustrates what happens to your muscles (with and without) the type of regular and beneficial exercise that the sport of triathlon provides....
Racing For Fun & Cinn-A-Stacks....
January 23, 2012
OptumHealth Performance Indoor Tri #1 - A research study at a semi-prestigious community college in Nickeragwah (phonetic spelling), wherein nine people were interviewed, proved conclusively that ONLY COOL PEOPLE BECOME TRIATHLETES.
Truer gibberish was never spoken, and the findings of that groundbreaking study were echoed loudly on Sunday at the inaugural Optumhealth Performance Indoor Tri, which launched the 2012 OHP Indoor Series. Only cool people were there.
Like who, you ask?
* Well, let's start with Trisha, 15, from Prior Lake, who is as cute as a button. She rides a Cervelo, which means that her parents are doing okay financially. Lately, she's been bugging her mom, who is very, very...
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