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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...