Living Allowed

Adventure seeker, humanitarian, running fanatic with a sometimes odd sense of humor | Co-founder at www.Blueprintfox.com, a nonprofit consulting firm reinventing how we think

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Couldn’t have said it better myself!

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Approaching Lakehead, California - the view of Shasta lake and the gorgeous mountains

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Enjoyed some Backcountry films last night at Clifbar HQ. Left a deep craving for some powder action.

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Exactly!

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A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.

Wilfred Peterson

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Laughing uproariously at the Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal Gala (photo courtesy of Bayview Hunts Point Community Legal Clinic)

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“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

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“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What Are Dylan Bowman's Ultrarunning Secrets?

How to push your body to the limit and make the podium

“Learn to suffer!“

Got to admit, this article made me want to train harder!

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If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

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VIDEO: Highlights from La Sportiva Legends Only 2015

Janja Garnbret, a 16-year-old Slovenian climber, has proven her potential with a sweeping victory at the La Sportiva Legends Only competition in Stockholm, Sweden. Garnbret completed all five boulder problems in seven tries total.

Motivation to get back on the wall...a.s.a.p!!

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Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.

Michael Landon

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It’s frustrating when your GPS watch displays a distance slightly longer than the race you signed up for at the finish of a precisely measured course. The error could be caused by a few factors: You may have taken some corners at a wide angle, had to weave around other runners, or dashed into the woods for an emergency bathroom break.

Sighs, I knew it...((kicks at ground))

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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive

Walt Disney

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“I just want to stand here a minute,” I say, pausing in front of a gleaming bakery case. I’m three weeks into training for a marathon. I’m also on a controversial low-carb, high-fat diet, and despite the fact that every proponent has assured me I’d lose my desire for sweets after a week or two, I am enraptured by the carrot cakes on display at our local Costco.

“Fat-adapted running is an emerging philosophy in the long-distance running community. Some runners—especially ultradistance athletes— are trying low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets in an attempt to teach their bodies to use fat for fuel.”