Small rant here.....
So as my awesome husband and I were traveling over the past week I found out how hard it was to find HEALTHY options to eat. I am disgusted with all the fast food and processed options there are compared to something fresh and good for you. Do you know how hard it is to head on down the road and find something to eat that hasn't been pre-cooked, blasted with chemicals, frozen...cooked again (in a fryer most likely) and set aside in a heating drawer for who knows how long just waiting for the next sucker to come along. It's honestly eye opening to travel a freeway and see all the flashing signs that line the exits for miles and miles and miles trying to lure us into their greasy joints. What does that say for us that we have endless options of this crap and VERY limited options for good wholesome food?
I'm upset that our kids are growing up with all this processed crap being served to them on a silver platter...I mean have you seen how they make "chicken" nuggets? If there is more than an ounce of actual chicken meat in there I would be surprised. Nico asks me every day why I won't take him to McDonalds to eat...I tell him because it's not good for you to eat there every day...or once a week or pretty much EVER! Then he asks me is there any good for you places that have a play place in them and I couldn't think of one...what does that say about us? These places should be outlawed...they market to our children and teach them all the wrong things about healthy living. They put flammable chemicals into their so called food and give us the healthy option of sliced apples with our pink slime burger...sure your eating flammable chemicals and pink slime on a processed bread bun but hey! at least you are having their pre-sliced (cause they can't be bothered to slice you a fresh one), pre-packaged healthy option on the side with your gigantic (now called medium) Coke. COME ON!
While we were in Texas I was able to eat fairly healthy. We had continental breakfast every morning and even there you have to be careful what you choose. I mostly went with the fresh fruit option...tried the scrambled eggs but being able to taste that they were made from powder wasn't that appetizing. What would a vacation be without a little bit of splurging though? We got some Texas BBQ for dinner one night and the creamed corn was AWESOME, I mean creamed corn sounds gross even I was skeptical but the guy insisted we try it and I was glad we gave in. Theeeeennnnn we went to Cheese Cake Factory for dessert....not my greatest moment in self control...that was a lot of sugar, but I only had that and a small ice cream at the ball game alright?!
Okay my kids are in melt down mode, it is 10 in the morning....oh and one is possibly stinky so I must be going now..rant over.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Ragnar Fun and Some Paleo Granola!
This past weekend I ran Ragnar for about the 7th or 8th time. I always have so much fun doing this race, I would suggest it as a must do for EVERYONE!!!! The key to having an awesome Ragnar experience is of course having the best van mates you can possibly find because you are going to be stuck in the car with their stinky sweaty behinds for 197 miles of pure fun!
This is our collection of Ragnar nuts and just plain crazy people....from left to right...Me (Busty), Finese (The Tight End), Tracy (Snooki), Brooke (B-WoWW), Coastie (D-Cat) and Desiree (D-Lish).
How much fun can that be you ask?....geez so much fun I can hardly even stand it! Can't you tell from the pictures?
There were high powered lazer lights, air horns, a rave on the side of the road at 3am, my awesome van mates helping out Jeff from Alpine, brightly colored spandex, cowbell (who doesn't want more cowbell?) licking ass (inside joke), bull horns, who forgot the water?, flashy light bracelets, are we late again?, and lots and lots and lots of running.
I think that I could do a lot more Ragnar races with this exact van and be perfectly happy with it...they were amazing and so much fun to hang out with for 32 hours straight! I enjoyed every second of it.
These are the legs I ran:
Old Snowbasin Road
Leg 23 Some random lake
Deer Valley leg (this one put a hurtin on the thighs)
I made this amazing recipe to take a long with us and I was surprised to find a left over bag when I got home...it lasted about 5 seconds with my husband and kiddos. I have adapted the recipe from a blogger called PaleOMG she has some great recipes but I've found a lot of them have a lot of fat involved in them that don't need to be there.
Paleo Granola (Gluten free)
1 cup almonds, roughly chopped
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tbsp cup coconut oil (or other oil)
1/3 cup raw organic honey
1/4 cup organic maple syrup
Handful of flax seed
Small handful of sunflower seeds
1 cup non-sweetened golden raisins OR craisins OR what ever you have available
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt (I omit the salt when all I have is salted pumpkin seeds)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Add all ingredients to a large microwavable bowl.
Mix well. If the honey is thick, heat up in the microwave for about 30 seconds and mix well.
Place on a baking sheet
Bake for about 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally to help it not burn. Try not to burn your tongue off cause it will smell so good you probably will want to taste it when you stir.
When you pull it out of the oven, mix in dried fruit. Let cool.
ENJOY and here is a WOD in case you are not recovering from Ragnar.
Warm up 10 minutes
30 minutes cardio (swimming, biking, walking, running) anything for 30 minutes
15-30 burpees
20-50 Lunges
push ups until failure
400M run or jog or walk
repeat 4 times
Stretch and cool down
There were high powered lazer lights, air horns, a rave on the side of the road at 3am, my awesome van mates helping out Jeff from Alpine, brightly colored spandex, cowbell (who doesn't want more cowbell?) licking ass (inside joke), bull horns, who forgot the water?, flashy light bracelets, are we late again?, and lots and lots and lots of running.
I think that I could do a lot more Ragnar races with this exact van and be perfectly happy with it...they were amazing and so much fun to hang out with for 32 hours straight! I enjoyed every second of it.
These are the legs I ran:
Old Snowbasin Road
Leg 23 Some random lake
Deer Valley leg (this one put a hurtin on the thighs)
Paleo Granola (Gluten free)
1 cup almonds, roughly chopped
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tbsp cup coconut oil (or other oil)
1/3 cup raw organic honey
1/4 cup organic maple syrup
Handful of flax seed
Small handful of sunflower seeds
1 cup non-sweetened golden raisins OR craisins OR what ever you have available
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt (I omit the salt when all I have is salted pumpkin seeds)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Add all ingredients to a large microwavable bowl.
Mix well. If the honey is thick, heat up in the microwave for about 30 seconds and mix well.
Place on a baking sheet
Bake for about 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally to help it not burn. Try not to burn your tongue off cause it will smell so good you probably will want to taste it when you stir.
When you pull it out of the oven, mix in dried fruit. Let cool.
ENJOY and here is a WOD in case you are not recovering from Ragnar.
Warm up 10 minutes
30 minutes cardio (swimming, biking, walking, running) anything for 30 minutes
15-30 burpees
20-50 Lunges
push ups until failure
400M run or jog or walk
repeat 4 times
Stretch and cool down
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
This Girl is Rockin June
Okay so I'm stealing a recipe from a guy called The Civilized Caveman but it is genius and I modified it to come up with a almond joy version also...YUM right? Seriously though, this guy has tons of great recipes and they are all pretty healthy. I mean I wouldn't make the Chocolate Avocado Cake every day but every once in a while a girl needs some cake yeah?
This week I am preparing for Wasatch Back, I hate tapering...I feel like I'm not doing enough but I know in my head that it's good for da body to cool it a little bit. I ran 3 miles today at an EASY 10 minute mile pace and couldn't help myself I had to do some push ups (100) and core (150 mason twists). Ragnar is going to be so much fun I can't even stand it! You are going to wish your little heart out that you could be part of our party van (or SUV since it's not technically a van). We are having a Jersey Shore theme complete with glow sticks, clubin' music and of course Snookie. Who wouldn't want to be part of that?
After Ragnar I have been informed by my most awesome, amazing, loving husband that we will be leaving for Dallas for 5 nights of golf and baseball for our 10 year anniversary :D WOOOOOOO! I freaking love me some Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers! How much fun is June going to be for this lucky girl? And to top it all off the Spartan Beast is June 30th....icing on the cake baby!
On to the recipes....
Apple Pie Bars Here DELICIOUS!!!!!
Make sure you form these before you cool them, they will crumble if you try to cut them into bars after they are cooled.
I also like to throw a small handful of flax seed in there, because I love flax!
My Almond Joy Version
2 cups pitted dates
1/4 raw macadamia nuts
1/2 cup dried apples
1/3 cup raw almonds
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
small handful of flax seeds
1/4 cup sugar free chocolate chips (optional)
2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
1-2 tbsp cocoa powder (depending on how chocolaty you want it)
Put all the ingredients in your food processor except oil and cocoa powder. Pulse until it's chopped into tiny bits. Put everything into a medium bowl add coconut oil and cocoa powder.
This is the messy part.... I press mine into a square or circle shaped cookie cutter (and really press!), make them about 1 inch thick, push them out on to a cookie sheet with parchment paper and put them in the fridge to cool and they will set up...store wrapped in parchment paper and in a zip lock bag.
That's it! ENJOY!!!
This week I am preparing for Wasatch Back, I hate tapering...I feel like I'm not doing enough but I know in my head that it's good for da body to cool it a little bit. I ran 3 miles today at an EASY 10 minute mile pace and couldn't help myself I had to do some push ups (100) and core (150 mason twists). Ragnar is going to be so much fun I can't even stand it! You are going to wish your little heart out that you could be part of our party van (or SUV since it's not technically a van). We are having a Jersey Shore theme complete with glow sticks, clubin' music and of course Snookie. Who wouldn't want to be part of that?
After Ragnar I have been informed by my most awesome, amazing, loving husband that we will be leaving for Dallas for 5 nights of golf and baseball for our 10 year anniversary :D WOOOOOOO! I freaking love me some Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers! How much fun is June going to be for this lucky girl? And to top it all off the Spartan Beast is June 30th....icing on the cake baby!
On to the recipes....
Apple Pie Bars Here DELICIOUS!!!!!
Make sure you form these before you cool them, they will crumble if you try to cut them into bars after they are cooled.
I also like to throw a small handful of flax seed in there, because I love flax!
My Almond Joy Version
2 cups pitted dates
1/4 raw macadamia nuts
1/2 cup dried apples
1/3 cup raw almonds
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
small handful of flax seeds
1/4 cup sugar free chocolate chips (optional)
2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
1-2 tbsp cocoa powder (depending on how chocolaty you want it)
Put all the ingredients in your food processor except oil and cocoa powder. Pulse until it's chopped into tiny bits. Put everything into a medium bowl add coconut oil and cocoa powder.
This is the messy part.... I press mine into a square or circle shaped cookie cutter (and really press!), make them about 1 inch thick, push them out on to a cookie sheet with parchment paper and put them in the fridge to cool and they will set up...store wrapped in parchment paper and in a zip lock bag.
That's it! ENJOY!!!
Saturday, June 9, 2012
In The Words of Tony...BRING IT!
Utah Spartan Beast <---- watch this video!
I have no idea if I'm ready for this race. I've trained hard and I feel ready but in reality I really have no idea what to expect! I've never done anything like this before, but I hope to do a lot more of them cause it looks like a heck of a lot of fun. I know, I'm probably a little crazy in the head, a couple screws are loose...I've accepted it :) Lets do this! I've started asking around to see about borrowing one of those kick "A" cameras that can do mud, water and hopefully fire, wouldn't that be fun to watch? June 30th can't come soon enough...I'm oddly calm about it, almost Zen like...hopefully that is a good sign.
WOD for Sunday? Long run...whether it be 2 miles or 20 miles get out there and get it done! Take it nice and easy and oh yeah don't forget to do 10 or so burpees and/or pushups every mile!
Time for bed. I'm going to test out the "bad ass" socks tomorrow...I'll be sure to take a picture.
I have no idea if I'm ready for this race. I've trained hard and I feel ready but in reality I really have no idea what to expect! I've never done anything like this before, but I hope to do a lot more of them cause it looks like a heck of a lot of fun. I know, I'm probably a little crazy in the head, a couple screws are loose...I've accepted it :) Lets do this! I've started asking around to see about borrowing one of those kick "A" cameras that can do mud, water and hopefully fire, wouldn't that be fun to watch? June 30th can't come soon enough...I'm oddly calm about it, almost Zen like...hopefully that is a good sign.
WOD for Sunday? Long run...whether it be 2 miles or 20 miles get out there and get it done! Take it nice and easy and oh yeah don't forget to do 10 or so burpees and/or pushups every mile!
Time for bed. I'm going to test out the "bad ass" socks tomorrow...I'll be sure to take a picture.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Green Chili Dutch Oven Ribs (Paleo and GF) No WOD
It was a great day today! No one threw up and Presley had semi solid poo...never thought I would be so excited about poo :) Also I got to pick up Nico from his Papa's house, it's nice to have him home again. Not a lot of activity going on at the Pagnani household today other than I officially put us on quarentine so we don't spread the "love" anywhere else. It might be too little too late seeing how we've spread it to Utah County and now that Nico threw up at Papa's house, Tintic will have the lovely experience of uncontrollable bowels. What can you do?!
Today's workout was no biggie, hence the no WOD for today....4 miles nice and slow 9 min miles...so begins the tapering for Ragnar (if I make it to next weekend), which leaves me plenty of time to post a delicious, EASY and Paleo/GF friendly recipe.....trust me you have got to try this NOW, try it now!
Shut up with your praises, I can't take all the credit for this recipe. The idea came from Bobby's bromance partner, but I've tweaked it and came up with a blow your mind recipe...BAM! Okay you can praise me...just a little.
Ingredients:
1 Pkg pork or beef country style ribs (roughly 8 ribs)
Chili powder
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Paprika
Cumin
Sea Salt
2 large white onions halved and sliced thin
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 beef bullion cube
1 Tbsp Oregano
2 to 3- 7oz cans of green chiles (depending on the spice level you want add more or less)
1- 7oz can green salsa
Pre-heat oven to 275
Break out the dutch oven (seriously you know its buried in a deep dark corner) and heat it up on your stove top over high heat.
Sprinkle the ribs with the seasonings, except Oregano (that comes in later) and brown both sides of the ribs in the dutch oven. Once they are browned turn the heat down to Med remove the ribs and add the onion with a sprinkling of salt, cook for 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and cook 5 more minutes. Put the browned ribs back in and spoon some of the sauce over the top. Put the lid on the dutch oven and cook in the oven for 4 hours.
Serve with baked sweet potatoes and you have a meal fit for a caveman!
ENJOY! :) and thanks for looking!
Today's workout was no biggie, hence the no WOD for today....4 miles nice and slow 9 min miles...so begins the tapering for Ragnar (if I make it to next weekend), which leaves me plenty of time to post a delicious, EASY and Paleo/GF friendly recipe.....trust me you have got to try this NOW, try it now!
Shut up with your praises, I can't take all the credit for this recipe. The idea came from Bobby's bromance partner, but I've tweaked it and came up with a blow your mind recipe...BAM! Okay you can praise me...just a little.
Ingredients:
1 Pkg pork or beef country style ribs (roughly 8 ribs)
Chili powder
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Paprika
Cumin
Sea Salt
2 large white onions halved and sliced thin
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1 beef bullion cube
1 Tbsp Oregano
2 to 3- 7oz cans of green chiles (depending on the spice level you want add more or less)
1- 7oz can green salsa
Pre-heat oven to 275
Break out the dutch oven (seriously you know its buried in a deep dark corner) and heat it up on your stove top over high heat.
Sprinkle the ribs with the seasonings, except Oregano (that comes in later) and brown both sides of the ribs in the dutch oven. Once they are browned turn the heat down to Med remove the ribs and add the onion with a sprinkling of salt, cook for 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and cook 5 more minutes. Put the browned ribs back in and spoon some of the sauce over the top. Put the lid on the dutch oven and cook in the oven for 4 hours.
Serve with baked sweet potatoes and you have a meal fit for a caveman!
ENJOY! :) and thanks for looking!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Week of Awesomeness.....
So today I decided I need to blog for some reason....maybe it's because Bobby is gone for the entire week and I'm bored out of my freaking mind OR maybe it's because I've got nothing better to do than tell random people how my day went.
Anyway, lots of people ask me about recipes and workouts and sewing (yes sewing, random...I know) so hopefully I can post some of that here. Here goes my rant about the AWESOME (note the sarcasm) week we have had here at the Pagnani household and my workouts that I have managed to get in despite the awesomeness going on, maybe even a recipe...we'll see.....
Saturday morning Bobby left for his yearly bear hunt, it sounds exciting? Well it's not. They lay out a bunch of donuts cover them in bacon grease, rotten fish and other disgusting things and sit in a tree stand ALL DAY and wait.....and wait....sounds fun right? NOT! Well at least he gets some man time.
Anyway he leaves and I get to wake up to Presley covered in poo...lots and lots of stinky nasty poo, she has the runs, AWESOME (sarcasm)! Long story short she's had the runs ever since and I've had to wash her sheets and blanket EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Monday we went to have lunch for my mom's birthday! YAY! We went to the splash park in Spanish Fork and let the kids run wild. After the park Presley had another blow out, YUCK, and Nico begged his way into Grandma letting him sleep over with the rest of the cousins, this was a big mistake and you'll soon hear why.
So I leave Spanish Fork one child short and two very tired little ones ready for bed at 7:00pm. Awesome (no sarcasm here, it really was awesome. I mean Jett went to bed on his own).
Tuesday, the day of never ending poo....Prelsey once again had a blow out in her crib, here I go washing sheets...again....then I notice Jett is wearing underwear. This is odd considering he NEVER wants to get himself dressed and I put him to bed in a pull up, so I decide to investigate. As soon as I open the door the smell of poo hits me like a freaking brick wall. Jett has pooped in his pull up, taken it off and wiped his butt with random things in his room...books, toys, blankets...you name it! AWESOME (sarcasm)! Then I get a phone call from Grandma, Nico was up all night throwing up, great! I bet you can guess how the rest of the day went?
Well I managed to get in a 45 minute workout, not good enough to post about but it worked well enough.
Wednesday, a little better just Presely poo to clean up and I decided to workout in the basement because I was obviously never going to make it to the gym...oh and today Grandma is sick, victim number 2 or 3 (we can't decide if Presley having the runs is from the 4 molars coming through or she is sick?)
Wed WOD:
Warm up-1 mile
Strength set:
50 Lunge jumps
50 Mason twists
21's
50 Body weight jump squats
20 Boy pushups
Cardio pyramid:
1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m, 200m, 200m, 400m, 600m, 800m, 1000m
all ran between 7-8 min/mile pace
Between each cardio interval I did the strength set so it looks like this....
1000m, strength set, 800m, strength set, 600m, strength set.....and so on
GREAT WORKOUT!!!
Thursday, also known as today, I woke up to Jett puke. PUKE EVERYWHERE! I mean how are you supposed to get puke out of a mattress other than buying a carpet cleaning? So off I go to buy a cleaner, only I had to ask one of Bobby's friends to go to Walmart for me because I was afraid Jett would puke at the store. I'm lucky to have such helpful friends! Thanks Jeff!
Now begins the cleaning spree, SO GLAD I bought the cleaner by the way, it was such a great help! Now my house doesn't smell like puke, I've wiped down every surface with Lysol wipes, washed everything Jett has touched...this included a LOT of laundry but now it's all done. And now my house is sparkly clean, my hands are raw from all the sanitizer, the kids are in bed and oh yeah...I got in another awesome workout. Spartan Beast here I come!!!
PS do you ever just wish you could legally run over those people that come door to door to sell crap like a bottle of natural cleaner for $90 (but it will change your life!) magazines...(honestly like I can just order those online myself instead of writing your shady butt a check) and of all things meat...yes MEAT, from a door to door salesman (these days? really? hmmmm) Oh yeah and now Macks (my nephew) is sick :( victim number 3 or 4.
Thursday WOD:
400m (9ish min/mile pace the legs are TIRED)
2 burpees
400m
4 burpees
400m
6 burpees
and so on all the way up to 20 burpees then back down all the way to 2 burpees. This should give you 5 miles and very tired legs!
Now I'm very tired and off to bed...only 3 more days until Bobby comes home...I CAN DO THIS...right?
Anyway, lots of people ask me about recipes and workouts and sewing (yes sewing, random...I know) so hopefully I can post some of that here. Here goes my rant about the AWESOME (note the sarcasm) week we have had here at the Pagnani household and my workouts that I have managed to get in despite the awesomeness going on, maybe even a recipe...we'll see.....
Saturday morning Bobby left for his yearly bear hunt, it sounds exciting? Well it's not. They lay out a bunch of donuts cover them in bacon grease, rotten fish and other disgusting things and sit in a tree stand ALL DAY and wait.....and wait....sounds fun right? NOT! Well at least he gets some man time.
Anyway he leaves and I get to wake up to Presley covered in poo...lots and lots of stinky nasty poo, she has the runs, AWESOME (sarcasm)! Long story short she's had the runs ever since and I've had to wash her sheets and blanket EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Monday we went to have lunch for my mom's birthday! YAY! We went to the splash park in Spanish Fork and let the kids run wild. After the park Presley had another blow out, YUCK, and Nico begged his way into Grandma letting him sleep over with the rest of the cousins, this was a big mistake and you'll soon hear why.
So I leave Spanish Fork one child short and two very tired little ones ready for bed at 7:00pm. Awesome (no sarcasm here, it really was awesome. I mean Jett went to bed on his own).
Tuesday, the day of never ending poo....Prelsey once again had a blow out in her crib, here I go washing sheets...again....then I notice Jett is wearing underwear. This is odd considering he NEVER wants to get himself dressed and I put him to bed in a pull up, so I decide to investigate. As soon as I open the door the smell of poo hits me like a freaking brick wall. Jett has pooped in his pull up, taken it off and wiped his butt with random things in his room...books, toys, blankets...you name it! AWESOME (sarcasm)! Then I get a phone call from Grandma, Nico was up all night throwing up, great! I bet you can guess how the rest of the day went?
Well I managed to get in a 45 minute workout, not good enough to post about but it worked well enough.
Wednesday, a little better just Presely poo to clean up and I decided to workout in the basement because I was obviously never going to make it to the gym...oh and today Grandma is sick, victim number 2 or 3 (we can't decide if Presley having the runs is from the 4 molars coming through or she is sick?)
Wed WOD:
Warm up-1 mile
Strength set:
50 Lunge jumps
50 Mason twists
21's
50 Body weight jump squats
20 Boy pushups
Cardio pyramid:
1000m, 800m, 600m, 400m, 200m, 200m, 400m, 600m, 800m, 1000m
all ran between 7-8 min/mile pace
Between each cardio interval I did the strength set so it looks like this....
1000m, strength set, 800m, strength set, 600m, strength set.....and so on
GREAT WORKOUT!!!
Thursday, also known as today, I woke up to Jett puke. PUKE EVERYWHERE! I mean how are you supposed to get puke out of a mattress other than buying a carpet cleaning? So off I go to buy a cleaner, only I had to ask one of Bobby's friends to go to Walmart for me because I was afraid Jett would puke at the store. I'm lucky to have such helpful friends! Thanks Jeff!
Now begins the cleaning spree, SO GLAD I bought the cleaner by the way, it was such a great help! Now my house doesn't smell like puke, I've wiped down every surface with Lysol wipes, washed everything Jett has touched...this included a LOT of laundry but now it's all done. And now my house is sparkly clean, my hands are raw from all the sanitizer, the kids are in bed and oh yeah...I got in another awesome workout. Spartan Beast here I come!!!
PS do you ever just wish you could legally run over those people that come door to door to sell crap like a bottle of natural cleaner for $90 (but it will change your life!) magazines...(honestly like I can just order those online myself instead of writing your shady butt a check) and of all things meat...yes MEAT, from a door to door salesman (these days? really? hmmmm) Oh yeah and now Macks (my nephew) is sick :( victim number 3 or 4.
Thursday WOD:
400m (9ish min/mile pace the legs are TIRED)
2 burpees
400m
4 burpees
400m
6 burpees
and so on all the way up to 20 burpees then back down all the way to 2 burpees. This should give you 5 miles and very tired legs!
Now I'm very tired and off to bed...only 3 more days until Bobby comes home...I CAN DO THIS...right?
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