For the past few months, I have been working on making myself healthier…Really for the past 10 years since moving to Boulder, Colorado. But let me digress a little bit.

Boulder is known for its community’s “healthy” lifestyle. It’s actually more of the stereotype of overly healthy, granola eating, hippie cultured, pot smoking people who somehow manage to NOT work, do yoga all day long and afford to live in this extraordinary place seemingly without effort (and lots of expendable cash). The reality is not quite so extreme, yet it does lend itself to the stereotype more oft than not. There are a lot of freeloading “hippies”; a lot of pot smokers (even before pot was legal); a lot of free-thinking, overly sensitive foodies; a lot of very high-level athletes; Trophy wives who only have to look good for their husbands and raise the kids; and RICH PEOPLE. But, there are also a TON of very average, normal people too.
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8 months in…whew..we no longer know what a life without training is like. Unfortunately for me (Jake), I injured my ring finger a few weeks ago so I am no longer on the climbing roster for the entire month of February. It’s a little (more like A LOT) depressing! Climbing is a huge physical release for me, and while I am doing other things to train hard, climbing took huge amount of effort and I am finding it hard to feel like I’ve worked hard enough.

So how did I get hurt, you ask? From climbing harder than my body could handle at the time. This is not a new problem or issue for me. Pretty much all climbers suffer small, mild injuries to one body part or another; it could even be argued that every climber out there is climbing with injuries of some kind.

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After the long holiday season of eating and eating (and more eating), I felt the need to do a gentle cleanse to get me back on track to my normal at-home-diet. We ate tons of yummy (and not so healthy) food over the last month, which has left me feeling a bit sluggish. I feel like I gained about 10 pounds, even though I remained pretty active during that time. I doubt I actually gained that much, but still I decided that I needed to do a cleanse to feel back to normal.

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