Category: Fitness
It came rushing back to me like a demon, digging its talons in my heart and mind with a determination to never let go. Standing at the top of the ski slope in Vail, my old friend, or more accurately my old fiend, showed up for a reunion. Shame. Mine was not an athletic family. […]
We have all thought about what the ideal life would look like. If your idea of a perfect life was a movie, what would the script be like? Perhaps you’ve thought about individual scenes, but what would the total story be? The ideal life will certainly not make itself, and the story will not be told […]
Every summer we hear the tragic news that another athlete or outdoor worker has suddenly died while training or working in the heat and humidity of the late August summer. This strikes fear in the hearts of parents, coaches, athletes and laborers alike. But how does this happen? How can it be anticipated or prevented? […]
After years of skiing on our gently sloping backyard hill on what were excessively long, presumably antique skis that we had plucked from a yard sale, my brother Matt and I were finally going skiing on a real mountain. Not only that, we were renting real skis, with real boots (without need for bread bags on our feet for water proofing) […]
