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FitView-You Can’t Touch This
Fit View By Efren Martinez Can’t Touch This When you meet Barbara Miller for the first time, you meet what we all see up front, which is a polite and soft-spoken person on the outside. But when you run with her, you get a feeling of amazement and MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This”. Barbara’s [...]
Official Monster Guitarist!
StreetView By: Ruben Porras – Modesto Famous This is the second article in our series of features about folks that live right here in Modesto that our readers have expressed interest in. This month we sat downwith Randall Padilla who was recognized by Guinness Book of World Records in2010 for being the world’s fastest guitarist. [...]
Take Some Time to Breathe
FamousView By: Ruben Porras aka Modesto Famous It’s a quiet gloomy Saturday afternoon as I sit and write this and it is nice to take some time to just breathe. It feels like I have really been on the go quite a bit lately and I seem to constantly be busy doing one thing or [...]
Fit View-Good, Bad & the Ugly
2 race pics coming Fit View By Efren Martinez The Good The Bad & The Ugly Happy New Year everyone, 2011 was a great fitness year for Modesto with opportunities for fitness, fun and healthy living. Here is the run down of some of our fantastic local races I was able to participate in 2011. [...]
Street View – 5 Questions
Five Questions w/ Robert House by ModestoFamous This is the first article in a series that we have planned that will feature local folks that we see almost daily but do not know much about. Robert House is the madman that rides his unicycle on McHenry Avenue every day. It was nice to chat with [...]
You Run Like A Girl
Fit View By Efren Martinez You Run Like A Girl! Since as long as I can remember, I have heard this bogus phrase more often than once. Regardless, running like a girl would be OK for me as long as I could run like Ali Klikna. Recently she showed me, along with everyone else at this [...]
Weight Loss & Shaved Legs?
FitView By Efren Martinez Weight Loss & Shaved Legs? When you look at Brian, it’s more than noticeable how much weight he’s lost recently and it only makes his handsome shaved head more attractive, but his legs too? More on that here after a bit; I met Brian 2 years ago at Fun Sport [...]
BAMBOO DAVE
Is It CARBON, ALUMINUM or METAL? by Efren Martinez Modesto View Readers lets just say if Mother Nature was racing in The Amgen Tour, she would be riding the same bike my friend Dave Nicolau sports every Sunday on our group rides. I met Dave last year at 5:30 Fun Sports Bike rides on Sundays [...]
Body In Motion
I’ve often said, a body in motion stays in motion. That’s a huge understatement for Barbara Elia. The woman is a Dynamo! I was first impressed with Barbara about a year ago when I saw her trail running in Modesto after racing a 5K race! In fact, at our last race together, she raced The Park [...]
Sky High! Nearby.
It’s 8:30 PM and the gentle sun of early summer has finally dipped below the ever-expanding tree tops of centuries-old fir, cedar, and sugar pine trees hovering over the campsites at Pinecrest Campground in Pinecrest, CA “These trees look different at night . . . even scary,” my friend ponders as we navigate the trailed [...]
QuakeView – Reform
What comes to your mind when you hear the word reform? Improvement, restructuring, modification, change or even perhaps time off for good a behavior. Well, perhaps, if you just got out of the big house. Let me lay it down for you this way, no long stretch, no big house but all of the above [...]
QuakeView: Fit at 50
Age is just a number and the key to eternal youth, outside of my all-time-fitness-hero Jack Lalanne “The Juicer”, is fitness. Fitness is what drives my friend Jeff Qualle. I meet Jeff 2 years ago at my fitness club. What attracted me to Jeff was how fast he was in the pool. Jeff has been [...]
MoBand
Pair the warm evening breezes of the Central Valley’s summer nights with one of the country’s most long-established, continuously performing bands and you have Modesto’s Concert in the Park. “Groovin since 1919,” the Modesto Band of Stanislaus County has helped furnish the sound track of our humble city and Concert in the Park has filled [...]
Bicycle! Bicycle!
Quake View By Efren Martinez Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike. And, why not! With Amgen Tour of California heading for Modesto this month, the wheels are already turning with most of us. I have recently awakened my Super 6 road bike from a long winter slumber, [...]
Maniax To Host So-Cal Breakers
Week 2 for the IWFL team the Modesto Maniax, as they take on the So-Cal Breakers. The So-Cal Breakers will be traveling from the Mission Viejo/Irvine area for their first game of the season, after a week one bye. Game time at Roy Blakely field on the campus of the Modesto Christian High School is [...]
