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...

Two of the coaches at rowing camp are Judy and Dick Geer, co-owners of Concept II, the oar and erg manufacturers. They come up here and coach out of the goodness of their ample hearts. Boy do they know...

My youngest kid is 45. (Hey, that’ll happen and the great news is that, after forty, children are SO much easier. And after 50?…don’t even ask.) Anhow she did a hell of a thing last weekend…swam with her water...

I have arrived,for the second time this year, at Craftsbury Sculling Camp, deep in the Northeast Kingom of Vermont. The crazies this week are a little different from last time. Now there are some twenty, wildly fit teenagers and...

I’m mostly rowing these days but the day before yesterday I went for a bike ride before we went out to supper. And almost killed myself. It was clear it was going to rain but I thought I could get out...