Just a Small Town Girl

I joined a friend, her significant other, and his family for today's Race for the Cure (30,000 participatnts?). It's been years since I participated in the event. I have mixed feeling about the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but it was a good walk.

After the walk, I decided to go for a quick ride. During my ride a passed a guy wearing a RAGBRAI jersey. Since I'm from a small town, I tend to talk to everyone, so I asked him if he was training for this year. He had stopped with his buddy for a break on a bench along the trail. The guys asked me a couple quick questions, so I stopped to chat. After a quick conversation, I started to continue on my ride. The guys said they were leaving too and asked me to ride with them. Since they were going in my direction I agreed.

The one gentleman owns some sort of wellness company, and we started talking about health. He told me that wellness was really 75% nutrition and 25% exercise. I explained that I was hoping it would be 50/50. He then told me the dangers of sugar. After a brief back and forth conversation, I told him I wouldn't buy hard candy to refill the container on my desk for next week. Don't worry. I'm not giving up sugar. Because I forgot to get hard candy at the grocery store, it won't be on the desk, at least not for the start of the week. Give up sugar. What next? Water? Oxygen?

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LH said…

I just heard a piece on the radio about Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie.

Candy is good.

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