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I compost the pulp. I'm a NW hippie now.[quote]

Do you eat the compost ? You're missing all that nutrition from the pulp, if not.

Thats why I make juice smoothies in the blender now

Same here. I’ve always used a blender and finally got a powerful industrial model that liquefies everything including seeds. So much simpler than using a juicer.

Hey wheelz, that pistacio butter or other nut butters might just get me back into juicing.

Thanks.

Alan

Well...that's just plain nutty, imo.

I'm handicapped, but you guys are the lazy ones .

Economy cost Cam, because the days ahead are shorter for me than the days behind.

I judge most routine things in my life by their economy cost, in other words what could I better be doing with my time. The vast majority of my meal preparation is streamlined to use the least amount of time while maintaining a healthy cost effective diet.

Here’s a good one that baffles my coworkers. Being aircraft mechanics most of my buddies pride themselves in taking car of their vehicles like changing the oil, filters washing etc. . . . I found a long time ago that it’s more cost effective to have someone else do those things for me. I drop off my car in half an hour to 45 minutes it someone else does all the preventive maintenance for me at a cost of less than $15 a visit. While they are working I’m out running or sitting watching a show on my portable DVD player. If I want to work I will sign up for overtime and make either $55/hour in OT pay or usually 2-4 to 1 in comp time. So why the hell would I change my own oil, filters, rotate tires or wash my car. BTW if I did want to do those things I could just do them at work during down time.

Gotta love government jobs.

Well, I signed up for the first annual Badger Mountain Challenge. I'll be doing the 15k (of course) with my coworker. We did a 5k together, and it didn't tax either of us (at her sane pace, versus my inability to pace myself), so we're going to try for this 15k. Dean, you should come run the 100 mile one.

Charles I’m so out of running shape right now I’d probably kill myself doing a 15k. Since I started lifting again about 4 months ago I’ve gained 20lbs and the most I’ve run, really jogged, was 4 miles and I was sucking wind. I don’t plan to stop bulking until my body fat goes north of 15% probably closer to 20%. When I started lifting it was about 8% and now it’s up to about 12%. So hopefully I can keep bulking for another 4 months or so before I need to cut. That’s when I will start getting some running back in.

Endurance goes a lot faster than strength if you don’t maintain it, keep that in mind if you start improving. Took me a while to get back up to speed when I stopped power lifting. And I never quite got back to optimal running weight because I didn’t want to loose all the weight I had gained so I ended up only dropping about 20 of the 40 lbs I gained while lifting before.

I sure hope you enjoy yourself doing it. Looks like a nice place to run. I use to enjoy running in Corvallis when I attended Oregon State. That area is really beautiful as long as you like cold and cloudy a lot of the year.