Harry and Laura came to Aspen late last night for a quick weekend of skiing and what a pleasure it has been. He is an eastern skier – lots of what look to me vaguely like hockey stops –...
Third take…skiing as exercise
Okay, I was wrong last time. Now that I’m used to the altitude, I put on the heart rate monitor again and it’s fairly clear that skiing – most of the time – is not aerobic exercise after all....
RARE TREAT
Going off to ski for three solid weeks is a rare treat, obviously, but what a joy. And how terrific it makes you feel. A long vacation with steady, daily exercise – the classic “kedge” – changes everything. And...
HIDEOUS DAY
The sun shines 300 days a year in Aspen. Occasionally there’s a bad day. Very occasionally there’s a very bad day. And today was hideous. So I went skiing. Not because I am coocoo but because two close pals...
JOY IN THE MORNING…POWDER DIVISION
A foot of new powder yesterday and two, hard-skiing pals in from NYC for Hilary and me to ski it with. They were still getting used to the altitude but they are also just 40 years old. So, hey,...
SKIING IS EXERCISE SOME OF THE TIME
Having written, yesterday, that skiing is not really exercise, I tested the notion yesterday and have to modify what I said. I wore a heart rate monitor, where I could see it, and took some runs. On a steep,...
