There Will Be a Brief Interlude for Attempted Humor

Our Saturday morning run was just cancelled - apparently 14 degrees below isn't the best weather for it. To celebrate this rare opportunity to sleep in, I'm taking a brief hiatus (a winter break, as it were) from my adventures in fitness to share some of my favorite jokes. Hey, it's damn cold out - …

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The Choices We Make – and Don’t

At a writer's retreat some years ago, I was asked to read a favorite poem. I recited Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. Having learned it in high school choir, (where we performed its musical arrangement), I thought I knew something about what it meant. A guy goes for a walk, sees two virtually identical paths to …

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Breaking News: Exercise Good, Scams Bad

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS HERE with a couple pieces of information that will be news to you, if you don't know about them already. 1.  The following news is from the New York Times (which is a New York City newspaper): Study: Exercise in middle age is important to health Yes, a landmark, ground-breaking study found that …

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Rx for Recovery: Eat, Sleep, Stretch

THIS NOT RACING IS TIRING ME OUT. After all my races this year I'm on a recovery break, and I was expecting to feel re-energized, even restless. Instead, I've had less energy and been more sore. I asked the head trainer at my gym, Body Specs, about it. "All year long, running more races than …

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