Business Journal

Our good friend and two time Ironman finisher, the well respected Dr. Seiichi Noda was prominently featured in the Business Journal today. The heart doc shared his philosophy on combating stress...

My hobby is doing triathlons so I have a pretty rigorous schedule that includes swimming, biking and running year-round. My wife also participates, so we try to do the activities together. My son runs for his high school cross-country team so some running I will do with my son. If I have a very busy day, like two heart surgeries in a day, I try to break it up by doing something in between, like going for a short jog. I find that if I remain physically active, it allows me to stay focused on the things I do at work.

Interestingly enough though was the fact that he left out the part about taking a 2 hour nap every day.

#7

After checking out all of the athletic clubs in Denver we settled on Greenwood Athletic Club. This club is awesome. There is plenty of spinning, swimming (including a heated outdoor pool that is opened year round), tennis courts, YOU NAME IT!!! The only thing that it is missing is the great group from Wellbridge that we use to work out with. While we are no longer graced with the presence of one Tommy Rosenthal, we did have a major celebrity sighting this week. Suzy spotted Big John Elway, #7, earlier today enjoying a smoothie after his workout. She was way too star struck to bother the Hall Of Famer (very un-Pepper-like as he would have stuck his camera right in #7's face) but thought that she caught a glimpse of the former Denver QB checking out her spandex shorts (just as Rosenthal use to do).

New Training Diet

Pepper put away the GU, Ultragen and Gatorade and finally came up with a manly meal that none of his training partners (other than Bill Cragg) would touch with a ten foot pole. In fact, I am not at all convinced that Pep ate any of his own creation. Here is his recipe that makes approximately 8-10 bowls if using macaroni noodles. If Rosenthal is eating then it makes enough for 9-11 bowls...

Pep’s Turkey ChiliMac Recipe

· 2.5 cloves of garlic
· 2 medium size yellow onions
· ½ chopped small jalapeño pepper
· 2 large celery stalks
· 2.25 bullions of chicken broth in 3 cups water
· 1 ¼ lb of ground turkey
· Paprika-dash to taste
· Onion powder-dash to taste
· 2 tbl spoon chopped fresh cilantro
· ½ Corona Beer
· ½ tbl spoon cumin
· 3 tbl spoon chili powder
· ½ chopped red bell pepper
· 1 chopped green bell pepper
· Salt & onion powder to taste.
· 15 oz. Hunt’s tomato sauce
· 14.5 oz. Hunt’s stewed tomatoes
· 28 oz. RoTel Original Diced tomatoes & green chilies- use only 21oz. & most of the juice
· 16 oz. elbow macaroni noodles

Sauté onions, peppers, garlic, jalapeno, celery for approx 15 min. Add ground turkey and brown in large pot, then add remainder of ingredients and simmer low heat for 2 hours.

Boil macaroni noodles just prior to serving. Put noodles in a bowl and chili on top of noodles. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese to taste.