There is a tremendous temptation, on traveling days, to lay off your exercise. Like this morning…I have to drive to Boston, starting at 7:30, pick some one up and drive to Maine. No time to work out, natch. Well, that...

Having some goal…some kedge…in place most of the time is an awfully good idea. I recently found that I did not qualify to row in the Head of the Charles sculling race this fall, and the zip went right...

In general, people over 50 are not going to get into races of any kind and I don’t blame them. Our object is to get in decent shape and live decent lives, not to become athletes, at this late...

One of the horrors of rowing camp is that they take careful movies of your rowing and then carefully disect it, a frame at a time, in front of everyone. EEK. It’s odd, but remember…the point of a good "kedge"...

It’s a stinky gray day, here on our lake in New Hampshire. Warm but a steady rain and it’s going to go on all day. It is, in other words, a perfect day to do the Stinky Gray Weights....

Retirement is scary and all that, but it does have its points, if you don’t have to drive yourself completely crazy for not being the wildly important guy you were a couple of years ago.Let yourself go, as the...