Louis Nijsten prepares to start the evening's workout.
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Michael Hurley, left, and Chris Cole perform deadlifts.
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Muir is working on building his Manic Training brand.
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Shane Dooley pushes himself during a training workout.
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Julie Wernig, right, Tara Wernig, middle, and Laura Philip work with dumbbells.
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Anne Zoltani performs the "bird dog" exercise. Muir reserves Tuesday and Thursday nights for women.
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Brian Smith, a teacher at The Lowell Whiteman School, lifts a Russian kettlebell during a workout at Graham "Bushy" Muir's Hayden gym.
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Shane Dooley holds a pad for Chris Cole during rugby training.
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Graham "Bushy" Muir, coach of the Steamboat Springs rugby team, works out during one of his Manic Training sessions in his Hayden garage. Muir has been sharing his training technique with a small group of locals and hopes to someday turn it into a business.
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Hayden High School junior Jarah Woodley drives for a layup in Saturday's loss to Rangely.
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Hayden High School sophomore Ben Williams drives along the baseline looking for a route to the basket Saturday in the third-place game of the district tournament. Hayden lost for the second time in as many days, but it still will advance to play in the the regional tournament this week.
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Hayden High School senior Caitlin Mahanna is bumped out of the way by Rangely's Audrey Hogan on Saturday morning as the Tigers lost for the second time in the district tournament. Despite finishing fourth in the eight-team field, Hayden advances to next week's regional tournament.
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Steamboat's Charles Wood walks off the court after his team's 48-40 loss to Longmont Saturday at Longmont High School.
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Steamboat Springs' Jack Spady drives to the basket in the fourth quarter Saturday at Longmont High School.
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Steamboat Springs head coach Luke DeWolfe talks with his team during a timeout Saturday at Longmont High School.
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Longmont's Tom Pane defends against Steamboat's Alex Wood during the third quarter Saturday at Longmont High School. Longmont won, 48-40.
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This photo featuring Utah ski jumper Kyle Lockhart at Howelsen Hill, taken by John F. Russell, won first place for a sports photo at the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters annual awards ceremony Friday night in Denver.
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Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. Ambassador Sharon Bigelow, right, gives a tour of the ski area Thursday to, from left, New Jersey resident Liz Davis and Bill and Donna Hebert, of St. Louis. Bigelow said she has been a Steamboat resident for 17 years, but this is her first year as an ambassador. "Thoroughly enjoying it," she said.
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Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. Ambassador Margot Johns, left, visits with St. Louis resident Paul Ohlman on Thursday while riding up the Sundown Express lift. The ski area will host ambassador hiring clinics March 6 and 7.
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Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. Ambassador Sharon Bigelow leads a tour down the High Noon trail Thursday.
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Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. Ambassador Margot Johns talks about her job while riding the gondola Thursday.
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Austin Rae, middle, and classmates Erica Kipfer, left, and Mary O'Leary Brennan complete an assignment during Julia Ortiz's eighth-grade Spanish class at Steamboat Springs Middle School this week. The Steamboat Springs School Board now is debating class sizes.
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Steamboat Springs Middle School teacher Julia Ortiz explains the purpose of an assignment with her eighth-grade Spanish class.
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Joe Roberts draws a cartoon that appears weekly on the editorial page of the Sunday Pilot & Today. This is the cartoon for March 1, 2009.
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Loggers Rusty Baker, left, and James Lewis perform maintenance on a piece of equipment this past year at Pearl Lake. Baker, who owns Baker Resources, says the closing of Big Horn Lumber in Laramie, Wyo., will make harvesting trees more costly.
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Logger James Lewis uses a skidder to remove beetle-killed lodgepole pine from Pearl Lake in North Routt County last year.
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There's plenty of room to innovate when taking photographs at night. Here, a flashlight was waved across the snow in the foreground during a 30-second exposure.
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The yellow lights of the city reflect off the low hanging clouds that blanketed Steamboat Springs on Thursday night.
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The economic challenges in our country have forced Steamboat's major hotels, such as the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel, to focus more on customers' needs and to compete for the businesses that are booking conferences in Steamboat Springs.
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The Sheraton Steamboat Resort is making extra efforts to attract large conferences and seminars, a business staple that is faltering in the tough economy. Joan Morrison, director of sales and marketing at the Sheraton, said things could be looking up for the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Construction worker Salvador Rodriquez waits for a section of drywall to be completed Friday as work continues on the Bombay Grill in the Wildhorse Marketplace.
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Edward Fuentes trims drywall at the Bombay Grill construction site in Wildhorse Marketplace on Friday afternoon. The restaurant is scheduled to open March 20, and it will become the first restaurant in Steamboat Springs to offer traditional Indian cuisine.
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Choreographer Tiana Buschmann gives feedback to her dance group during their Thursday practice.
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Students in Robin Bush's sixth-grade class in Hayden gather around the computer of Tim Lim, an engineer with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, minutes after releasing a weather balloon. The balloon was transmitting data about pressure, temperature, wind speed and location back to Lim's computer.
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Choreographer Tiana Buschmann, front, practices with her dance group Thursday night during rehearsal at Northwest Ballet Studio. The group will perform the "It Was All In Your Mind" piece March 5 to 7 during the annual Dance Showcase at Steamboat Springs High School.
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Oak Creek resident Gulya Paraketsova walks her dog, Ruby, with her grandson, Andrey, on Wednesday on West Colfax Street in Oak Creek. Three quarters of respondents to a recent Oak Creek policing survey said code enforcement such as leash laws and parking is an important need in town.
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Some Steamboat Realtors are looking ahead to commissions generated by closings later this year at condominium projects such as One Steamboat Place (pictured) and Trailhead Lodge.
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Pricing real estate effectively right out of the starting gate is critical in Steamboat's buyer's market. Research shows that more prospective buyers asked to view property priced just less than fair market value.
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