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Marathon training on four runs a week and no free time

You don't need six days and a coach. You need one protected long run, a wife who knows the plan, and the discipline to skip the hero workouts.

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The only refinance number that matters is the break-even month

Closing costs divided by monthly savings gets you close, but two common tricks make a bad refinance look like a good one.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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How to get a fire going when every stick is soaked

Wet wood isn't wet all the way through. Here's the order of operations that turns a soggy woodpile into a fire that stays lit.

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Eating well at 25, at 45 and at 65

The same three groceries carry you through every decade. What changes is how much you get away with, and how fast.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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Pay yourself the payment for three months before you borrow

A $12,000 loan at 12.9 percent hands the lender $3,424. Saving the same monthly amount gets you there in 36 months instead of 48, and the math is yours to check.

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Finding north with a stick, a watch and the Big Dipper

The sun gives you west in twenty minutes, Polaris gives you north in ten seconds, and neither one needs a battery or a signal.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

How to quit nicotine when you can't take a week off

You're not fighting a chemical so much as twenty small appointments a day. Here's the plan that holds up on a bad Tuesday with a sick kid.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

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What Old Men Wish Somebody Had Told Them at Twenty-Five

Ask a man in his eighties what he'd change and he almost never says the job. He says the ears, the friends, and the questions he never asked his dad.

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Burns, Sprains And Deep Cuts, Handled In The Right Order

Cool water for twenty minutes, pressure you don't peek at, and a short list of things that mean you stop treating it at home and get in the truck.

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Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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The hearing you've got left is all the hearing you get

Hair cells don't grow back. A few dollars of foam and thirty seconds of technique will save you from asking your kids to repeat themselves at forty-five.