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Listen up athletes and weekend grinders: The key to enhancing your performance might be the bacteria in your gut. A December story in the Outside Magazine Twitter feed titled, The Athlete’s Guide to Probiotics, highlighted a project that took stool samples from runners competing in Race Across America, a grueling 140-day nationwide competition.

I was a spectacular liar when I was a kid. I wrote on the couch with a black pen and blamed my little brother. I splashed on gallons of my mom’s Ambush perfume one day, and then denied that I had done so even when I could tell that I reeked of the heavy scent. Everyone I knew was born nearby in Boston, including me, and that seemed so pedestrian, so I told all my neighborhood friends one November that I was actually from Baltimore and would be flying there for Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with my aunt. Little did I know that a neighbor would call my parents to say that she had a relative who worked for Eastern Airlines and I could get a discount on my flight to Baltimore. My parents were livid that I would make up such a story.

Triathlon dream dashed

A tired and a little worse for wear stage production of ”Dirty Dancing” limped into the Golden Gate Theatre – any resemblance to the 1987 box office hit movie with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray is purely, as they say coincidental.

There is water leaking behind the Target store. Some of the main pipes that are adjacent to the street there have been leaking for quite some time and it's getting worse. Now there's a little stream of water coming from that area. Someone needs to get over there and fix it.

Is the city (or county) ever going to properly stripe the northbound lanes on Santa Teresa between Day Road East and Day Road West (in front of Christopher High School)? There are now faintly painted dots marking the lane separation. The problem is that if you stay in the only straight lane at the Day Road East intersection, you end up in the left turn lane that turns onto Day Road West. During rush hour, “unknowing” drivers get stuck in that left turn lane because “knowing” drivers slip over that dotted line into the right lane not allowing the “unknowing” driver to move to the right.