Recipes are great. But formulas are where it's at. Recipes allow even brand new cooks to produce something that's really good, or at least something that doesn't entirely suck. You can take a recipe that an expert chef created and reproduce in your home exactly the same dish, without the years of training. Score. The…
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What do you know, another Monday. But this Monday is special, for lots of reasons, not the least of which are that I'm on spring break and my second-ever 50K is on Saturday. It's also the start of the last full week of my first year of blogging, seeing as I started this blog on…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! This is Christine and instead of my normal frilly-healthy-dessert post, today we are getting down and dirty with homemade vegan superfood energy bars. An energy bar fit for fueling workouts There has been a lot of talk about natural running fuel here lately. Matt's series of posts on pre, during, and post…
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Chia seeds are all over the health blogosphere these days, so much so that I was beginning to think they were a fad superfood. But then Brendan Brazier included them in Thrive Fitness, and with all the research he does for his books and career, I tend to trust ol' B-squared when it comes to…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! This is Christine again, so get your ovens revved up for some Athletic baking! Instead of dessert, this week I'm tackling home-baked Energy Bars! Most "healthy" bars on the market are fairly expensive and fall into one of two categories; they have enough sugar and processing to qualify as candy or they…
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