Spring Fitness guidance to ease into warm weather sport
Cedar Rapids YMCA and YWCA officials urge a moderate start to spring workouts. Fitness directors warn weekend athletes to pace themselves, monitor heart rate, and consider a year round keep fit program before tackling tennis, running, or hiking. Backpacking expert Bob Ernst offers practical tips for training with a pack. Jaime Vi Tucker backs bicycling for exercise and transport.
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Dorothy Topie
Cedar Rapids Ywca
Larry Bush
Cedar Rapids
Bush
YMCA
YWCA
Fitness tips across sports cite winter recovery and warmups
A Cedar Rapids coach and other pros advise runners, tennis players, golfers, and golfers to ease into spring fitness. Nancy Willett promotes stretches and wind sprints for tennis and footwork drills. Bob Vavra urges walking and single handed swings. Dorothy Topie urges daily activity with variety and enjoyment.
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Nancy Willett
Cedar Rapids
Willett
Woods
Dorothy Topie
Backpacking clinics offered by Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College runs backpacking clinics on March 14 and 17 in Iowa Hall. Both sessions cover boot and pack selection food planning and packing plus food prep led by biology instructor Bob Ernst. Pre registration ends March 9 with fees ranging from 6 to 6.50 per person and discounts for paired registrants. refreshments on March 17.
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Kirkwood Community College
Iowa Hall
Bob Ernst
Kirkwood
Wyoming
Persian coins bear Islamic messages over shah’s face
Coin dealer Stanley Gibbon cites Persian coins showing the shah’s image obscured by Islamic inscriptions. He notes that the Islamic government altered coins after the shah fled to China, a change he dates to 650 A.D.
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London
Stanley Gibbon
China
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