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San Francisco certainly has no shortage of places to sweat—both indoor and out. You can justify your boozy brunch at a sunny yoga class, tap it back to some pop hits in a black-lit room, throw some punches in a pared-down setting, and let the ocean breeze guide your sun salutations. Spice up your usual fitness routine with a trip to one of our favorite workout studios around the city. The Best Pilates Studios in San Francisco CORE40 on Instagram: “What you focus on with your thoughts and feelings is what you attract into your experience.⁠ ⁠ #TransformationalFitness” Core40 Core40...

Facebook: North Carolina Pickle Festival Pickle lovers from all over the country are flocking to Mount Olive, North Carolina this month to celebrate their love of everything pickles. The North Carolina pickle festival is on its 35th year of festivities, and festival-goers are ready to compete and eat buckets of pickles. People in attendance can expect a fun-filled day packed with a pickle-packing competition, a pickle eating contest and even a chance to win $350 by singing the Mt. Olives' mascot, Ollie Q. Cumber's anthem. And let's not forget all of the pickle delicacies served up by local businesses and...

It's the first full work week of the new decade, but there are plenty activities to keep you moving, creative, and well fed.Take a salsa class or learn some Bollywood moves at Non Stop Bhangra's 15th anniversary party; join the Hot Chocolate 15k run or a 55-mile bike ride through Marin; learn to craft your own cocktails at Elixir; and get Chinese-American eats delivered to your door from Brandon Jew's new Mamahuhu. Have a good one!Monday, January 6th The BookMark Shoppe on Instagram: #adammansbach #fucknowtherearetwoofyou #thebookmarkshoppe #books #bookish #bookstore #localbookstore#bookstagram #indiebookstore Salsa Class6:30pmNeck of the Woods, 406 Clement St. (Inner...

  Vitals Elizabeth Potter, 26,West Valley City,UT Occupation JetBlue Airways supervisor Height 5’6″ Time required to reach goal 2 years, 3 months Lesson Learned Find a workout you enjoy. “If I didn’t love cycling, I couldn’t do it for hours a day.” Secret Weapon Her son, Aiden, now 5. “He was my inspiration, and lugging a 25-pound kid in a bike trailer was tougher than any machine at the gym.” Weight Before 255 Weight After 155 The Gain Elizabethwas always chubby, but when she got pregnant in 2004, she hit 225 pounds and developed gestational diabetes. After her son, Aiden,...

One of the toughest nights of Steve Fassbinder’s life was spent stuck in an emergency bivy on the 19,000-foot Sim La pass in northern Pakistan, waiting out a midnight storm while his fat bike hung from an ice screw two pitches below his tent. Fassbinder and his expedition partner, Andrew Burr, had traveled there in 2017 to ride fat bikes around the Latok mountains. But at that point in their trip, they hadn’t pedaled a single stroke. After spending a week acclimatizing and getting sick at a 15,000-foot base camp, he and Burr spent a full day pushing their bikes through an ice field booby-trapped...