{"id":2013,"date":"2021-09-21T18:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/how-claire-p-thomas-stays-fit-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:20:21","slug":"how-claire-p-thomas-stays-fit-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/how-claire-p-thomas-stays-fit-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"How Claire P. Thomas Stays Fit on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We chose a location on a random stretch of beach just off the Honoapi\u2018ilani Highway on Maui \u2014 a place where we could pull Claire P. Thomas\u2019 converted Sprinter van through the kiawe trees and onto the sand. The only other people around were a few environmental volunteers taking water samples down the way.<\/p>\n
We were shooting Thomas \u201cmaking breakfast,\u201d and she stood just inside the van holding an egg above a bowl as if about to crack it. As our photographer snapped away, Thomas changed poses: She looked at the egg, then into the distance, then at the egg and then behind me. And then she waved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A couple stood on the periphery watching the shoot and whispering to each other. It\u2019s not uncommon to have lookie-loos on set, so I didn\u2019t think much of them and turned back to the task at hand, but Thomas was already engaged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHi! I\u2019m Claire!\u201d she called out, hopping down from the van. She and her boyfriend, Jared Connell, shook their hands and the couple talked a million miles a minute: They had been following Thomas for a long time on Instagram and knew she was on Maui, and they wondered whether they would see her while on vacation \u2014 and then here she was! If the couple was halfway to the moon to be speaking with Thomas in person, they did a virtual lunar leap when she invited them to take her high-intensity interval training class at Makena CrossFit later that week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBye, Rebecca!\u201d said Thomas as the couple took their leave and she returned to set. \u201cI really hope I see you in class!\u201d For most people, this sort of send-off would be considered neutral politesse at best. But the thing is, Thomas actually meant it. As the saying goes, you should never meet your heroes because chances are they won\u2019t live up to your expectations. But as her serendipitous Maui couple can attest, Thomas is as genuinely nice as she appears on social media \u2014 likely because her feed arose from an authentic place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n