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Tackling the Big Sur International Marathon

Coworkers team up for fun & fitness

“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for 20 years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.” – John Bingham

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Recipe: Chilled Blonde Gazpacho

Chilled Blonde Gazpacho - a healthy summer recipe by Chef Kelly Wangard, Executive Chef at Summerwood Winery & Inn, Paso Robles, CA
Serves 2-4 people

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Healthy Dining

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Paso Robles Wine Country,

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The View from Heaven

Find adventure at Skydive Pismo Beach

In 21st century America, planes are a fairly normal aspect of the daily grind. Most adults would say they’ve flown, but Chris Lee, general manager of Skydive Pismo Beach, would disagree. To him, that would be like saying you went for a swim without ever leaving the boat. In order to fly, you’ve got to jump.

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Adventure

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Pismo Beach,

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Becoming the All-Terrain Human

Kilian Jornet Burgada is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation. In just eight years, Jornet has won more than 80 races, claimed some 16 titles and set at least a dozen speed records, many of them in distances that would require the rest of us to purchase an airplane ticket. He has run across entire landmasses (Corsica) and mountain ranges (the Pyrenees), nearly without pause. He regularly runs all day eating only wild berries and drinking only from streams. On summer mornings he will set off from his apartment door at the foot of Mont Blanc and run nearly two and a half vertical miles up to Europe’s roof — over cracked glaciers, past Gore-Tex’d climbers, into the thin air at 15,781 feet — and back home again in less than seven hours, a trip that mountaineers can spend days to complete.

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Running

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The CrossFit Games

The search for the Fittest on the Planet

The purpose of any workout is to “increase your fitness”, yet only one workout program has actually defined “fitness”. In CrossFit, fitness is “increased work capacity over broad times and modal domains”. This sounds complicated but its actually very simple. It basically means that you have the ability to do any task, for a variety of different times and at different weights. Not that you are the best at the tasks, but that you are physically prepared to do anything, whether its life, career, or sport related.

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Cross-fit

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No time to slow down

Lloyd Miller keeps active and fit well into his 80s

Getting older is all about taking it easy, relaxing and slowing down – right? For some, this may be true, but not for Lloyd Miller – an active 87-year-old whose regular exercise routine keeps him fit, active, healthy and happy.

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City to Sea Half Marathon and 5k is Oct. 12

Cuesta College is gearing up to hold its annual fundraiser for the school’s cross country and track and field programs – the City to the Sea Half Marathon and 5K. The event, expected to draw as many as 2,500 participants, is set for Sunday, October 12, 2014. Participants in the half marathon will hit the pavement at 7 a.m. at Higuera and Court streets in downtown San Luis Obispo and end at Dinosaur Caves Park in Pismo Beach.

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San Luis Obispo,

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Coming soon: 3rd Annual Paso Robles Harvest Marathon

Sun., Oct. 28, 2012! This popular race is a Certified Boston Marathon Qualifier. Hosted by The Rotary Club of Paso Robles, the race includes a 2-person marathon relay and 5k in addition to the full marathon. The course starts and ends at Le Vigne Winery and offers beautiful views of Paso Robles wine country at harvest time.

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Marathon,

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Paso Robles,