SPECIAL RECIPE SECTION
Blueberry Buckle
Ingredients:
4 T butter or a substitute, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour, Mega Omega® or Simply Omega-3™
2 t baking powder
1/2 t sea salt
1/2 cup milk or substitute
2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
Topping:
1/3 cup flour
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 cup butter or substitute (softened)
Method:
Cream butter and sugar, add egg and beat well. Sift together next 3 ingredients. Add milk or a substitute and beat until smooth. Fold in blueberries. Spread batter in a greased 9 x 9 pan.
For topping, combine remaining ingredients, mixing until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter and bake at 375 ̊ for 35 – 40 minutes.
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| ...A Few Miles |
May 2009, Vol. 1, Issue 4 |
Setting my sights on reaching several goals this year means paying attention to details. Doing enough training, getting enough rest and eating the food that will fuel my body optimally, are all included in that plan. Without a plan I will not be able to reach any of my goals on schedule. Reaching a goal when I want to is just as important as reaching it at all.
Earlier this year, I realized I was approaching two milestones of achievement on my appointed path. Both are related to an accumulation of race finishes and both are in special categories. The first one is the number of marathons I have run and the second is the number of ultra marathons that I have completed. I hope to complete my 100th marathon and my 150th ultra marathon in 2009.
Typically, I do not run more than 4 or 5 marathons a year. This year, I will do 11, with the 11th being run from the city of Marathon, Greece to the Olympic stadium, Panathinaiko, built for the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. I have run on the track there a few times and I could just feel the history oozing from the stadium.
It was at “the Games” in 1896 that the world was introduced to the marathon, an event bearing the name of the city in Greece where a military messenger had run to deliver a message to the king. Pheidippides’ jaunt from the plains of Marathon, where the Athenians had defeated the invading Persian army, was a mere 24 miles, but the journey he had run prior to the final leg made the story even more amazing.
According to accounts written in ancient times, the hemorodromi, or “day runner” in English, began his trek by leaving the city of Athens at sunrise, to seek the aid of the city state of Sparta. That leg of the journey was nearly 150 miles. He arrived by sunset of the following day, meaning he ran for approximately 36 hours.
Once in Sparta, the Greek runner requested that the Spartans send their warriors to the plains of Marathon, where the Athenians faced an army that outnumbered them. Because there was a religious event taking place in Sparta, they declined to help so they would not offend their gods. Pheidippides had no alternative other than to run back to Athens and inform the generals that they would not be receiving reinforcement from Sparta.
He then was told to return to his unit on the battlefield, 24 miles away. To his surprise, when he reached the battlefield he found the Athenians had defeated the invading force. He was then ordered to return to Athens and deliver the message to the king that the Athenian army had been successful in defending their homeland. After reaching the acropolis, the center of the city, he found the king and said, “Rejoice! We have conquered.”
Because Pheideppedes followed orders, running for days, and not eating or getting the proper rest he needed to continue his monumental run, he then “expired”. In the course of a week he had run nearly 350 miles.
I completed this journey four times in a race called Spartathlon, in 1989, sponsored by Natural Ovens Bakery and using their flaxseed product that has since evolved into Mega Omega®. I placed 4th, 6th, 3rd and 4th respectively and I was the first American to break the 30-hour barrier with a time of 27 hours 8 minutes. This also made me the first American to place in the top ten overall. There are no age group awards at the event; each person competes against some of the best day-runners in the world, but my performance for runners over 40 still stands as the best mark by an American, two decades later.
Whether running for a few days or a few hours, it is important to fuel the body with nutritionally sound foods, taking in just enough calories to supply needed energy. One should not eat too much nor indulge in food that has no value; not only will your performances suffer, but so will your health. For me taking Mega Omega® has become part of my daily diet. Now, 20 years later, because I have taken the right steps to insure my fitness and youthfulness, I will be able to return to Greece and run the final leg of Pheidippides’ epic journey.
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 Introducing roy pIrRUNg
The first thing you may notice is the way Roy spells his name. It is a true indication of what he does and who he is. In 1989, he was the first athlete to use Mega Omega® and, like his running, once he started he never stopped. Read more... |
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April "Stimulus Package"
Contest winners:
Susan La Vigne, Carmel, NY
and
Roger Mayr, Kiel, WI
Each won six Omega Smart Bars. |
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Featured Product of the Month
Perfect Purples
 For the support of mental clarity, focus and energy, Perfect Purples™ is a delicious, anti-oxidant drink mix that combines 19 nutrient-rich, whole foods and vegetable extracts including blueberries, blackberries, black raspberries, plums, pomegranate, purple cabbage and more. Brain supporting nutrients Alpha GPC, L-Carnosine, and Folic Acid are also included in Perfect Purples drink mix.
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Provided by Dennis Shoemaker, © D. E. Shoemaker 2009.
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Omega Fields Health will partner with Marathon & Beyond at the 33rd Annual Grandma’s Marathon Expo on June 18 & 19 at DECC in downtown Duluth, MN. Held in Palucci Hall, this two-day expo offers fitness enthusiasts an array of products and services. See www.grandmasmarathon.com for additional information and registration information. |
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In the autumn of 2009 we will appear with Marathon & Beyond in Chicago, IL. The Bank of America Chicago Marathon will take place October 11, 2009 on the streets of the Windy City. Prior to it, the Expo will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 9 & 10, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. respectively. McCormick Place Convention Building, Hall B1 at 2301 S. Martin Luther King Dr. is the location and we hope to see you there. Learn more about the event at www.chicagomarathon.com. |
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Omega Fields Health will venture to the Motor City and partner with Marathon & Beyond at the Detroit Free Press Marathon Expo. The expo will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 16-17, 2009, at the Cobo Center, Oakland Hall, at One Washington Blvd. Detroit, MI. The hours of operation on Friday are from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Visit our booth and learn more about the expo and race at www.freepmarathon.com. |
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Race Report
World Championships, Bergamo, Italy
 For the seventh consecutive year I was a member of the 24-hour national team and participated in the World Championships. Each year the event has been held in a different country and this year the host city was Bergamo, Italy. Also, for the seventh time I was the oldest person to be selected to a national team.
As with any athletic event one has great days, good days and not-so-good days. For this one I had a not-so-good day. I was totally prepared to run in the 135 to 140 mile range over the 24 hour period. The problem was not that I had not trained; it was that I was not prepared for the course on which I had to run. Many of the other runners who had not-so-good runs felt the same way.
The loop that was presented to the runners was a little longer than one-kilometer, which was within the parameters set by the International Association of Ultra Runners. The location was in the center of the city and drew great spectator support. However, the running surface was broken up and there were uneven sections. For many the real problem was the canter of the road — It was almost entirely sloped and created imbalances in our biomechanics.
Most runners arriving from northern climes also found the temperatures in the 70s and 80s too warm for their liking. Adaptation to heat takes several weeks and when there is a jump of 20 degrees from the temperatures one trained at to those at race time, it can be detrimental.
 As a savvy racer and experienced coach, I warned the team to hold back in the heat of the day and wait for the cooler temperatures once the sun set. I heeded my own advice, but others stormed ahead and paid the price later in the day. It was still warm at midnight, several hours after the sun had gone down, as the heat being held in the asphalt finally dissipated. By then, both the heat and the course had sapped a lot of strength from many of the runners. Nearly 50 percent of the field was no longer running.
The heat was not the problem for me—the course was. Running with one leg being forced to hit the ground in a manner for which it had not been trained eventually led to bio-mechanical problems. First, my hip started bothering me. I went to the team doctor and he adjusted me with a couple of chiropractic-type moves. I got out there and ran well — for a couple of hours — then things suddenly got worse. My hip was again in pain, along with my knee and my foot.
Struggling is part of ultra distance running and I can take a lot of pain. However, when continuing means risking injury, there is no point in trying to move forward. In fact, at some points during the race I was not moving forward, but would lean to one side due to the imbalances the course had dealt me. I would move to the right and have to catch myself.
The decision to “pull the plug” came after 16 hours of running. Doing the math showed me that the progress I was making was minimal and that I was not contributing to the team’s accumulation of miles. Only the distance total of the top three members of each team, at the end of the day, are considered in the team total. In the end, three of our six men chose not to continue and our team ended up 13th out of 28.
The U.S. women’s team fared much better. All were still running at the end of the day. Our top female, who had finished fifth overall last year in Seoul, South Korea, Jamie Donaldson of Colorado, placed fourth overall in the female division and led the U.S. team to silver medal status. |
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