Hilly and I are on the plane to New York after a couple of days at the current Aspen Club/YNY RETREAT and we – like most of our guests –are starry-eyed. First it was the height of leaf season…...
Tag Archives: exercise
AGONIZING INTERVALS
Been doing some “Intervals” – short, intense bursts of aerobic exercise, followed by short rests and more hard bursts – in preparation for the Head of the Charles Regatta in October. Intervals are plenty hard, if you do them right, but...
FORTNIGHTLY: LIFE IS LONG. RESOLVE, LESS SO. WHAT TO DO? KEDGE! KEDGE! KEDGE!
Life is long and working out, pretty vigorously (for you), for six days a week… forever! Well, it can be tricky. There is not a question in the world that it is exactly the right thing to do…...
YELLOWSTONE RANCH
A friend has a family ranch, just north of Yellowstone, in Wyoming. Her grandfather bought a chunk of land back in the 1920’s, and the family has been carefully adding modest structures and maintaining the place ever since. They...
BIFF ROCKS! AN ASPEN RETREAT TRIUMPH
A while back, we had an improbable-looking guy named “Biff” come to an Aspen Club/YNY Retreat. Improbable because he was at least fifty pounds over weight, he had a huge beer belly and he did not to look to...
GLORY GLORY GLORY
Hilly and I have been skiing in Aspen for a week and HOW I rejoice. People think this place is a bubble for the rich and the spoiled. Maybe, but they do not get underfoot. To me, it is...
