conditioning

We walk the gentle uphill trail starting from the parking lot behind the baseball fields. This is a dirt trail, a bit rocky in a few places.This park is off Arrowhead Road, just north of the intersection of Hiway 50 and Arrowhead. As you turn into the John Winters Centennial Park entrance, the trailhead is beyond the Eagle Valley Golf Course club house and around the baseball fields on Heritage Way. Bring a hiking stick if you have one and water if the weather is warm.

Turn east on Sedge Road and park at the end of the pavement. This is a dirt road with awesome views of the western mountains and all of Carson City. This includes some uphill climb on the road. Bring a walking stick if you have one and bring water if it is warm weather.

Well Being (Massage and Functional Fitness) is now accepting enrollees in their Tough Mudder Training Program. Anyone interested in obstacle course and endurance fitness events are invited to participate. Program starts Tuesday, March 14, 2016.

Meet in the large parking area about 1 mile south of Carson River Road on the east side of Sierra Vista Lane. This is a dirt trail area and if we get high enough we can see over Prison Hill.

Conditioning Hike Program:

Turn east on Sedge Road and park at the end of the pavement. This is a dirt road with awesome views of the western mountains and all of Carson City.

Conditioning Hike Program:

Meet in the parking area of Brunswick Canyon, on N. Deer Run Road, about 1 mile south of Hwy 50. This is a walk along the river into Brunswick Canyon.

Conditioning Hike Program:

Meet in the back of Centennial Park, across from the baseball fields on Heritage Way. This is a sandy trail with nice views to the south and east.

Conditioning Hike Program:

The Western Nevada College 2016 softball team is poised to accomplish what no other Wildcat team before it has done: post a winning season and compete on equal footing with the Scenic West Athletic Conference's top teams.

By the end of last season, the Wildcats were capable of beating any team in the SWAC with a predominantly freshman lineup. They won a program-best 23 games, posted their first winning record at home and won two games in the Region 18 tournament.

Have a great day, Carson City. Here's a list of available fun to be had in our valley.

TUESDAY:
•*Carson City School District Winter Break
•*Snow Globe Music Festival at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe
•*’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
•*Nevada Artists Association Art Exhibit featuring Howard Friedman and Photography by Chas. H. McDonnell, III at the Carson Visitor Center (8am-5pm)
•*Nate Clark's exhibition ‘Leeway’ in the OXS Gallery at the Nevada Arts Council: 716 N. Carson St. (8am-5pm)

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, and it’s not a bad bet this week. Enjoy the sunshine while we’ve got it. Enjoy an evening of trivia at Living the Good Life. Break out the ugliest of sweaters for a night of karaoke at Carson Cigar C0. Head out to Sassafras to hear Linda Argento’s duo, ‘Xing Bridges,’ host an invitational jam.
TUESDAY:

• Carson City School District Winter Break
• ’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)

The snow is falling in the Sierras and looks like we will be allowed to enjoy all the wondrous activities and sports of Winter in earnest for the first time in three years. Are you ready? Better yet, is your body physically fit and/or conditioned?
If you are in need of a little assistance or guidance, the staff at Well Being gym would like to help. Our Winter Sport and Activity Conditioning course re-starts Monday, January 18 at 6 a.m. and continues each M/W/F at the same time through mid March.

Thanks to Mother Nature and El-Nino, Winter is here in earnest this year!! For those of you cyclist enthusiasts that benefited from the passed 3 mild winters but are forced indoors this year, Well Being gym is offering a Winter Cyclist training and conditioning program. The program provides ample opportunity to cyclists of all levels to maintain or build strength as well as improve speed and stamina.

The Carson Library offers some great activities for the kids and Craft Tuesday today is one of them. While you’re there, head across the street to Browser’s Corner Book Store to check out the holiday offerings at their craft fair. ‘Break a leg’ to the talented students of Carson High Musical Theater: their Winter Ensemble Concert is at the Community Center tonight. Jazz and poetry return to Comma Coffee: the monthly performance of the Mile High Jazz Band begins at 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY:

Carson City Symphony does some great things: one of which is the Strings in the Schools program. Join our talented STRAZZ students tonight at the Community Center as they perform the annual ‘This is not a Christmas Concert’ concert. Sassafras will be filled with some swanky jazz; Judith and Rocky are hosting this week’s jazz jam. Santa has been spotted at Red’s Old 395 and, naughty or nice, little boys and girls will get a photograph to take home. Stick around and enjoy Janet Leigh in Holiday Affair with the Carson City Classic Cinema Club.

TUESDAY: National Day of Giving Charity Drive

• Kit Carson Toastmasters Weekly Meeting at Grandma Hattie’s (6:30am; for info call Frank 775-885-7579 or KitCarsonToastmasters@gmail.com)
• World AIDS Day: Free HIV Test at Carson City Health and Human Services: 900 E. Long St. (8:30am-12pm, 1pm-4:30pm)

The annual Turkey Trot is a fun 5 or 8K run around the west side of town Thanksgiving morning. Costumes, silliness, and good times had for all. Sign up this afternoon at St. Teresa school. Living the Good Life is a good go-to for Tuesday night fun with bar games and trivia. Pizza lovers should head to Brugo’s for their weekly beer specials and a special tasting with High Sierra Brewery.

TUESDAY:

• ’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)

You could almost bet on strange weather in Northern Nevada. The Sierra Valley Forums are hoping to answer some of your questions about the extreme weather at the Brewery Art Center this evening. Get to toe-tapping at El Charro’s tonight; beginning swing dance lessons are on the menu. Flex your mind with trivia at Living the Good Life. Get your jazz fix at Sassafras: Rocky and Judith are hosting a jam.

TUESDAY:

• Kit Carson Toastmasters Weekly Meeting at Grandma Hattie’s (6:30am; for info call Frank 775-885-7579 or KitCarsonToastmasters@gmail.com)
• ’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)

Do you want to build a snowman, Carson City? That may be ambitious with our first dusting of snow, but I’m sure you could finagle a snowball or two.

This year you will be able to hike from the Morgan Mill River Put-In to the Mexican Dam and back. Meet at 9:00 am at the Morgan Mill parking lot for the full hike, about 12.75 miles roundtrip. For those who wish to do a partial hike, you can meet us at Hidden Meadows Trailhead parking area at 965 Buzzy's Ranch Road, or the entrance to Saddle Ranch on Carson River Road, or at the barn o Silver Saddle Ranch.

Meet in Multi-purpose Athletic Center parking lot on Russell Way.

Muscle Powered - Citizens for a walkable/bikeable Carson City sponsors a different hike every week. Hikes are moderately paced, usually with some elevation gain, of 1 ½ to 2 hour duration. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and leader may request physician’s release if needed. Please check out our website http://www.musclepowered.org. for specific hikes. “Friend” Muscle Powered on Facebook for weekly notices.
Bring your headlamps or flashlights. Cancelled if rain, sleet, or blizzard.

Meet on Thames Lane off of Kings Canyon.

Muscle Powered - Citizens for a walkable/bikeable Carson City sponsors a different hike every week. Hikes are moderately paced, usually with some elevation gain, of 1 ½ to 2 hour duration. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and leader may request physician’s release if needed. Please check out our website http://www.musclepowered.org. for specific hikes. “Friend” Muscle Powered on Facebook for weekly notices.
Bring your headlamps or flashlights. Cancelled if rain, sleet, or blizzard.

Leader Donna Inversin will supply the soup and some mulled wine plus tea and coffee, everyone else should bring, breads, spreads, desserts and/or wine and beer. Meet at Donna's house and then spend about an hour walking around the west side to see the lights before returning for the food. Please RSVP donnanv1@gmail.com, for address. Limit 20 participants.

Leader Donna Inversin 775-315-6763 donnanv1@gmail.com.

Meet near the corner of Ash Canyon Road and Wellington East.

Muscle Powered - Citizens for a walkable/bikeable Carson City sponsors a different hike every week. Hikes are moderately paced, usually with some elevation gain, of 1 ½ to 2 hour duration. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and leader may request physician’s release if needed. Please check out our website http://www.musclepowered.org. for specific hikes. “Friend” Muscle Powered on Facebook for weekly notices.
Bring your headlamps or flashlights. Cancelled if rain, sleet, or blizzard.

Meet in the parking area at the south end of Murphy Drive.

Muscle Powered - Citizens for a walkable/bikeable Carson City sponsors a different hike every week. Hikes are moderately paced, usually with some elevation gain, of 1 ½ to 2 hour duration. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and leader may request physician’s release if needed. Please check out our website http://www.musclepowered.org. for specific hikes. “Friend” Muscle Powered on Facebook for weekly notices.
Bring your headlamps or flashlights. Cancelled if rain, sleet, or blizzard.

Meet in the parking area off opposite Murphy Drive off of Coombs Canyon.
Muscle Powered - Citizens for a walkable/bikeable Carson City sponsors a different hike every week. Hikes are moderately paced, usually with some elevation gain, of 1 ½ to 2 hour duration.

Participants are responsible for their own transportation and leader may request physician’s release if needed. Please check out our website http://www.musclepowered.org. for specific hikes. “Friend” Muscle Powered on Facebook for weekly notices.

Bring your headlamps or flashlights. Cancelled if rain, sleet, or blizzard.

If you didn’t attend the performance of the Carson Chamber Singers on Sunday, don’t miss their encore this evening at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Red’s Old 395 is the place to be if you want to catch Carson City’s Classic Cinema Club’s showing of Royal Wedding with Fred Astaire. Living the Good Life starts up a weekly trivia and bar games night this evening, and their menu is chock-full of yummy options. Country Line Dance at Carson Lanes or beginning swing dance at El Charro’s are for those who want to kick up their heels.

TUESDAY:

Happy Tuesday, Carson City. Here's what's going on today in the area.

TUESDAY:
•*Kit Carson Toastmasters at Grandma Hattie’s (6:30am; for info call Frank 775-885-7579 or KitCarsonToastmasters@gmail.com)
•*’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
•*NAA Art Exhibit by Mark Kyle and Photography by Chas. H. McDonnell, III at the Carson Visitor Center (8am-5pm)
•*Artists Walter McNamara and Lynda Yuroff featured in the OXS Gallery at the Nevada Arts Council: 716 N. Carson St. (8am-5pm)

Enjoy a brisk hike at Lake Tahoe’s Skunk Harbor this afternoon during the weekly Muscle Powered Conditioning Hike. Kick up your heels at Carson Lanes: country line dance is on the menu every Tuesday and Wednesday. Living the Good Life is getting funky tonight; local trio, Whatitdo, will be getting its groove on. Sushi lovers should head to Kim Lee’s Sushi for two for one beer and sake; just save some upside down shrimp for me.

TUESDAY:

• NV Day Treasure Hunt (www.NVDayTreasureHunt.com)

Here's what's happening today, Tuesday, Oct. 13 in and around Carson City.
•*NV Day Treasure Hunt (www.NVDayTreasureHunt.com)
•*Kit Carson Toastmasters at Grandma Hattie’s (6:30am; for info call Frank 775-885-7579 or KitCarsonToastmasters@gmail.com)
•*’Divergence’ by artist Katie Lewis at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
•*Artists Walter McNamara and Lynda Yuroff featured in the OXS Gallery at the Nevada Arts Council: 716 N. Carson St. (8am-5pm)

Tuesday has arrived and it is starting to feel like autumn. It’s a perfect day to head to Gardnerville’s Corley Ranch for a pumpkin. Get your blood pumping with Carson City’s Parks and Rec. Department on this morning’s Easy Walk at Silver Saddle Ranch. Go dancing tonight and take your pick of line dancing at Carson Lanes or beginning swing dance at El Charro’s. Classic movie buffs won’t want to miss out on a showing of the original Little Shop of Horrors at Red’s Old 395.

TUESDAY:

The first official day of fall has come and went. Days are shorter and temperatures are cooler. Talk of a “Monster El Niño” has everyone stoked for winter. Thoughts of checking and tuning the gear begin to creep into our minds. Before each snow season there is one question we often forget to ask ourselves…are we physically ready? A lot of mountain enthusiasts attempt to keep in shape by hitting the trails, bike riding, paddle boarding or other adventurous outdoor activities, while others enjoy the off season in a different way.