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January 28, 2025

This isn’t the first time we’ve featured RAGBRAI, but we couldn’t NOT talk about the famous bike-across-Iowa-in-seven days ride. This past weekend, they just announced the 2025 route (it changes every year, so riders get to experience different small towns throughout the state during the ride), which is a huge deal! Check out the 2025 route HERE.

This event DOES tend to sell out - so if you’re interested in 2025 (you might catch us out on the hilly backroads of Iowa), we’d say sign up now & get your a*s on that trainer. You can sign up HERE.

In this week’s email:

👇Listen to a Cadence-recommended Pod: What’s hot and what’s not for the 2025 diet/fad scene? Fuel for the Sole covers a bunch in this episode: Cleanses and detoxes, Whole30, Taking GLP-1 for vanity weight loss, Fasting, “Clean” eating and A whole lot more!

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Tiktok of the Week:
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Where to Find the Best Deals on Hoka Shoes

Are you a runner? More specifically, a road runner? Hoka was built for that. Meaning “to fly” in Maori, Hoka was founded in 2009 so that runners could get the ultimate experience with optimum cushioning and stability. Less than 15 years after its founding, Hoka is bringing in revenues topping a billion dollars a year, so it’s clear that people are loving this brand. But with quality comes high prices, and Hoka is no doubt in the high end price-wise. So we’ve rounded up the best stores to find the best deals for Hoka.

Tidbits

Fast Fashion is OUT, hand-sewn is IN: Youer is a women’s clothing brand that hand sews the entirety of their offerings. If you know of Melanzana in Leadville, CO (IYKYK), Youer has a very similar vibe and just as stellar of quality. Yes - these are on the pricier side, but you get what you pay for.

✅Sad News out of CO Springs: Recently, at a Colorado Springs indoor track meet, a spectator was tragically killed from a rogue hammer that was thrown as part of a sanctioned field event during the meet.

✅Out of the World: In 1986, a group of insane endurance athletes decided - ‘hey, let’s run across a LITERAL desert for fun.’ The idea was wild, but wild enough to stick around all these years - expanding locations, crossing deserts around the world, in every sort of weather condition. None of these events are easy, but they’re all worth it.

✅Canine-thlon: These human-dog teams navigated an 80-meter swim, 3.5-kilometer (2.1 miles) bike and 2 kilometer (1.2-mile) run course in tandem, with each team required to stay within six feet (the length of a standard dog leash) of each other. Could you tackle this event with your doggo training partner?

🏃Bucket List Recs

  • Go-Karting in El Jebel, Colorado (25 miles from Aspen & Snowmass): 

  • Chill Gravel Riding in Malone, Florida: 

Performance Of The Week(end): Cameron Myers with U20 World Record in the mile; 3:53.12

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