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groups sites are available for youth groups. Two pavilions are available for family reunions and other gathtuckahoe continued from p.21 erings. The disc golf course is open daily. For more information on Tuckahoe State Park, special events, open challenge course dates or to make reservations, information is available via the web at www.dnr.state. md.us/publiclands/eastern/tuckahoe or by calling the park at 410-820-1668. Other places of interest in the local area include Martinak State Park www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/martinak, which is approximately 12 miles away near the town of Denton; Wye Island Natural Resources Management Area www.dnr.state. md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland; and the towns of Easton, Denton, Ridgely and St. Michaels. Camping and cabin reservations at Tuckahoe or Martinak State Parks can be made via the park websites or by calling the Maryland Park Service reservation system at 888-432-2267. chrissy continued from p.19 After Columbia, Wellington had 10 book signings scheduled for May, including Boston, New York City, Austin, Chicago and Toronto before an end of the month swim, bike and run event in Hawaii with Armstrong. “I wanted to support ‘Vigo’ and all the amazing things they (the Columbia Triathlon Association) do here,” Wellington said. “I wanted this to be my first book signing.” The 35-year-old Wellington, a native of Suffolk, England, told the crowd at Princeton Sports that she loved the Howard County area and the rolling hills reminded her of home. Ironically, Wellington raced the Columbia Triathlon in 2009, finished sixth — one or her worst performances ever. Today, however, she counts the experience among her biggest learning experiences in the sport. “I feel very fortunate to be in Maryland and to be in Columbia, it’s a pretty special place for me,” Wellington said, smiling. “Read the book and you’ll find out why.” “She wasn’t prepared for the Columbia Triathlon in 2009, it’s a quarter of the race she usually does and she thought she’d just swing into it,” Vigorito said, explaining Wellington’s uncharacteristic less than compelling finish in Columbia. “After that there’s never been another race she wasn’t ready for — mentally, physically and spiritually.” Wellington, who has degrees from the University of Manchester and the University of Binghampton, had a career in international development, advising the United Kingdom’s government, before turning pro just five years ago. The 5-foot-7 inch Wellington described herself as a "sporty kid,” swimming, playing field hockey, running, but never excelling at any one sport and always focused more on her schoolwork. “I was always more interested in the social side of the sports and being around my friends,” she said. Wellington said it was actually after taking a sabbatical from her government position, and accepting a position with an NGO in Nepal, that she began serious biking for the first time, eventually completing a ride from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet to Katmandu, the capital of Nepal. High altitude morning rides became a part of Wellington’s daily ritual in Nepal and “I learned I had an aptitude for endurance sports,” she said. “And I learned that I really enjoyed pushing my body and mind to the limit.” Competing as an amateur while still working in international development — which remains a great passion — Wellington quit her job and put her career aside in 2007 to turn pro after winning the world amateur triathlon. Wellington’s tri career didn’t start off great — she told an embarrassing story of borrowing a wetsuit that was too big and sinking during her first face — but, of course, she went on to win at Kona in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. She also has never lost an official Ironman race, going 13 for 13 before deciding to take this upcoming season off. “I never wanted to look back say, ‘What if,’ Wellington said, explaining her decision to give up a job in international development that she liked and did well. “I’m thankful that I wasn’t immobilized by fear of failure or fear of the unknown. “I gave up my job and I just have to pinch myself, I never imagined that I’d be a four-time world champion,” Wellington continued. “Every time I approached a hurdle, they just seemed to dissolve.” Triathlete Christine Matzo with 4-time Ironman champion Wellington Speed Studio utilizes some of the most advanced fitting systems available, including Retul, and the Slowtwitch F.I.S.T. fit to help cyclists choose the optimum bicycle for their performance needs or to refine their current position. We are dedicated to the idea that fit accuracy will yield both speed and comfort. Speed Studio features such brands as: In addition to our premium Fit Systems, we offer a comprehensive selection of fit services including static pro performance and aero fits, clean alignment (including the LOOK Keo Fit Adjustment System), and the Fit Kit Measuring System. Speed Studio is brought to you by: Bike Doctor Arnold of Maryland Please contact Steve Ruck at 410.544.3532 or at sruck@bikedoctor.com to schedule a fit consultation 22 June 2012
cyclists' kitchen by nancy clark, ms, rd Dieting—Not Allowed!!! It’s bathing suit season. Are you starting to panic because you’ll soon be shedding layers of clothing and exposing your body? Eeek!!! When you have more flab than you want, fretting about excess body fat easily leads to plans to go on a diet. You have many options: Atkins, Paleo, Jenny Craig, the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Banana Diet. Unfortunately, none of these diets work in the long run. After all, if diets did work, then everyone who has ever been on a diet would be lean. Not the case. We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Not only do fad diets not work, diets commonly backfire and contribute to weight gain in the long run. A study with teens that were followed from middle school into high school indicates the students who were dieting at the time of the initial survey were worse off five years later. They had a higher BMI, struggled with disordered eating or had an outright eating disorder, and achieved no benefits from their attempts to lose undesired body fat. Futile efforts. Overweight teens commonly become adults who continue to struggle with food for the rest of their lives. That’s why, starting at an early age, we need to discourage dieting and instead focus on eating healthfully and appropriately. If you don’t go on a diet, you won’t “blow your diet,” gorge on cookies, and gain weight. Eating normally —enjoying appropriate amounts of wholesome foods when your body needs fuel during the day—leads to an appropriate weight. Normal eating includes enjoying a good balance of wholesome foods, but not limiting yourself to only “healthy foods.” That is, you don’t have to have a perfect diet to have a good diet. A healthy food plan can include 85% to 90% “quality calories” and 10% to 15% “whatever.” Some days “whatever” is an apple; other days “whatever” is a cookie. Striving to eat a perfect diet commonly results in deprivation of foods you truly like to eat. You will inevitably end up bingeing on those foods, sooner or later. Think about it this way: If you put a little boy in a roomful of toys and tell him he can play with all the toys except for the green truck, what is the first toy he’ll reach for? Yup, the green truck. Hence, if you like cake, but tell yourself you shouldn’t eat it, what will you relentlessly hanker for? Yup. Cake. The way to take power away from a “binge food” is to eat it more often, not stay away from it. For example, if you like chocolate cake, you should eat it every day until you get sick of it. Don’t believe me? Do this experiment: For one week, eat your binge food every day instead of your normal breakfast, lunch, snack, and/or dinner. (You will not die of malnutrition in a week.) Observe what happens. The chances are that after three days of chocolate cake, you’ll hanker for shredded wheat again. And even if you want to continue to eat cake, a recent study indicates you can still lose weight on the Chocolate Cake Diet. In this study, the subjects who enjoyed chocolate cake for breakfast had better dietary compliance and ended up losing more weight than the people who were instructed to eat “diet foods.” Ideally, you want to learn to enjoy a daily food plan that includes a variety of mostly wholesome foods that are satiating, health promoting, and tasty. You want to eat heartily at breakfast and lunch, to prevent energy lags and cravings for sweets. You want to plan an enjoyable afternoon “second lunch” that helps energize the end of your workday and curbs your appetite for dinner. Then, at night, you want to eat a little bit less—and lose undesired body fat when you are sleeping. The goal: To wake up ready for breakfast, and perpetuate the cycle of fueling by day, dieting by night. While these suggestions to eat “normally” are seemingly simple, many dieters find the advice is hard to implement. They are afraid that once they start eating, they won’t stop. This over-compensation is “diet backlash,” strengthened by years of “last chance to eat cake so I’d better eat it all now before the diet starts again tomorrow.” There is a more peaceful way to manage weight The following information offers tips for how to eat appropriately. Please trust that appropriate eating will lead you to an appropriate weight. Eating specialist Ellyn Satter RD, (www.EllynSatter.com), author of “Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family” offers the following definition of normal eating. • Normal eating is going to the table hungry and eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it-- not just stop eating because you think you should. • Normal eating is being able to give some thought to your food selection so you get nutritious food, but not being so wary and restrictive that you miss out on enjoyable food. • Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad, or bored--or just because it feels good. Normal eating is three meals a day, or four or five--or it can be choosing to munch along the way. • Normal eating is leaving some cookies on the plate now because you know you can have some again tomorrow--or it is eating more now because they taste so wonderful. • Normal eating is overeating at times; feeling stuffed and uncomfortable--or it can be under eating at times and wishing you had more. Normal eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. • Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area of your life. • In short, normal eating is flexible. It varies in response to your hunger, your schedule, your proximity to food and your feelings. Is it time to start learning how to eat normally? Reach Over 30,000 Bicycling Enthusiasts Call 301-418-1039 or email neil@spokesmagazine.com December 2011 June 2012 23
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