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Rafiki-Where friends Play
By Jennifer Walz April 09, 2010
This place is awesome. I took the kids I nanny for ( age 4&6) and my 18 month old daughter. There is something for everyone. The kids played, made crafts, had lunch and didn't complain once about being bored. We were there for 5 hours. The prices are reasonable for all that is included. I was very impressed with the friendly and helpful staff, wholesome snack bar and how clean everything is. It is adult friendly with comfy couches and books and magazines. I even nursed my daughter and let her nap on the couch. Great concept. We will be making this a regular activity. ...read more
Rafiki-Where friends Play
By pookeybear33 March 09, 2010
I was impressed over the cleanliness of the facility and the pleasant staff. It's truly 'kid friendly'. Jackie ...read more
Rafiki-Where friends Play
By Emily August 06, 2009
Rafiki is a lot of fun. There is an endless amount of activities for kids to do, and plenty of space for parents to relax and chat. There's a nice infant area for littler ones to play, free from danger of getting run over by the bigger kids. The food's yummy and there's plenty of healthful options. It always seems clean and organized and the staff is always friendly and attentive. My only complaints have to do with the number of kids allowed at once. Sometimes Rafiki is flat out too full! Also, sometimes kids upwards of 8 and 10 are playing and they tend to dominate a center designed mostly for toddlers and 3-5 year old's. As a pass holder, it is frustrating to sometimes not be able to stay because it's too full. Otherwise it's a great place for a rainy or 100+ day! ...read more
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Coach Steve's Green Slurry
Written by Coach SteveBOISE RunWalk (www.boiserunwalk.com)(209) 639-1434 By popular demand, I have posted my recipe for the slurry I prepare 4 or 5 mornings each week during a marathon training season. The idea of the slurry (a bunch of vegetables, fruit and proteins blended together) came to me as a way to save time while getting the nutritious ingredients my body needs, and at the same time providing a way to "standardize" part of my diet so that I could count calories easier. Plus, this recipe is fairly inexpensive and you can purchase fresh produce each week. I consume a serving before each long distance to fuel my body, and immediately after to help my body recover. The ingredients below provide nutrients from several different color groups – and included fresh phytonutrients. A side benefit of the slurry is that it provides additional fodder for family and friends to tease me. The end product has a light green color and to others does not look very appetizing. In many ways my life is simply a vehicle for others to expense a good laugh and let out some pent-up need to tease and harass. This green slurry helps these people. Some people use a juicer, but I use a standard tall blender so that nothing beneficial gets discarded. Not even the seeds. Steve's Green Slurry1 cup grapes1 large carrot, chopped1 1/2 cup broccoli pieces,1 cup non-fat plain yogurt1 whole egg, raw (or 1/2 cup cottage cheese)2-3 cups whole leaf spinach1 large apple1/8 cup flax seed meal2 cups 1% milk2 cups pure orange juice Place all ingredients into the blender and turn it into a slurry. Pour slurry into three equal containers and consume one each for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Total calories can be about 1,100. Substitute other ingredients to customize your own recipe. Seasonal variations include strawberries, mango, tomato, whatever. Enjoy! ...read more
By Boise Run Walk January 02, 2011
Develop Your Running Strategy
by Coach SteveBOISE RunWalk (www.boiserunwalk.com)(208) 639-1434 Strategy, is word referring to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. You have chosen to run or walk a marathon, or half marathon or 10K distance after training for 12 to 24 weeks, and strategy will gather all you learn over the training period into a plan put into action on race day. A strategy refers to options that you'll chose between. In a long distance race, the forces of weather, road conditions, physiology and psychology tend to come together creating a set of choices and decisions for the runner or walker. Accomplishing your goal depends on the decisions you make, and the best decisions are based on information gathered during the training season. In your training with BOISE RunWalk you'll be coached on how you can make the best decisions, and you'll discover that your decisions are much better if you have experimented throughout the training program. Training Workouts and ExperimentationEvery long weekly workout during your training is an opportunity to experiment and gather information on the results of your experiments. Approach each long workout with a goal pace and goal split times, and approach each workout properly fueled and hydrated. During your workouts ask yourself how you feel, how's your performance. After the workout over the next several hours, ask yourself the same questions, again the following day. Depending on how you paced yourself during the workout, the distance you ran, and the nutritional condition of your athletic body, the decisions you made regarding hydration and choice of electrolytes, your performance and recovery can range from poor to great. So how do you know what pace to walk or run? And what should you eat, and how much should you have drank over the last week? These and other questions have answers that are personalized to you, and you'll learn the answers over the course of the season by experimenting with different paces, different foods, fluids, shoes, commercial sources of carbohydrate and the like. Sources of InformationGood information is available from your coaches, good topical books, the internet and fellow runners and walkers. Most Saturday mornings with BOISE RunWalk you take part in group discussions designed to deliver important information, get you thinking in terms of choices and decisions, and to help you experiment during the season so that you may create a solid strategic plan for race day. Putting it all togetherStrategy uses information gathered from past decisions to make decisions about the present and future. The decisions you'll be facing over the course of the training season and race day will cover a variety of topics (see table). Various topics involved in a typical group training program are:Experimentation, Choice of carbohydrate, Choice of fluids, Source of electrolytes, Nutrition and Hydration Strategy Race Week, Mental Preparation and Course Challenges, Race Day Morning, Post RacePacing and Splits, Nutrition, Strategy Conclusion and RecommendationUse each training week to make decisions on nutrition, hydration, rest, recovery, electrolytes, pace, splits (etc), and monitor the results of your performance on mood, aches and pains, resting heart rate and overall wellness. Adopt the attitude that training involves learning, and learning involves experimenting, and strategy is about making good decisions concerning what works good for you. BOISE RunWalk. Boise running! ...read more
By Boise Run Walk January 02, 2011
Halloween Spooktacular at Rafiki!
Saturday, Oct. 31 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Admission ONLY $6.49 per child Party includes:On the hour Cookie Walks, Paraná Fishing, Coloring Contest, Ghostly Bean BagThrow, Costume Contest, Pumpkin Ring Toss, Face Painting, Bewitching Touchy Feely Boxes,and Unlimited Free Play. Mini Spooktacular Friday, Oct 30 10am-1pm COME HAVE A SAFE, FUN HALLOWEEN WITH US!! 853-2626Rafikiplay.com6202 W. State Street, Boise ...read more
By Rafiki-Where friends Play September 30, 2009