If you’re not early, you’re late. Chalk it up to my type A personality, or to the magnifying effects of time and distance. If I wasn’t gonna win the summit of the Peru Nordic Sufferfest, at least I was the first one to arrive for the race.
Read More →Two weeks ago, I was sure that buying new snow tires had totally jinxed winter in the northeast. No longer – at least for a few days. Back in the day, my wife and I travelled to ski almost every weekend during the winter. And we expected that one of […]
Read More →UPDATED If you haven’t started roller skiing yet – wait, you’ve been rolling three times a week since May, right? – maybe the coming roller ski race season will get you going. The App Gap has come and gone, but the queen of northeast roller races – the Climb […]
Read More →“There’s an aesthetic component to skiing,” Bud Fisher said. He was so right on Sunday. Sun glinted off ice-coated tree branches under bluebird skies. For a change in this dry winter, there was deep snow high on Prospect Mountain. Only an occasional truck laboring over Bennington Gap punctuated the quiet. […]
Read More →After waiting for what seemed like forever, Prospect Mountain finally opened this weekend. My daughter and I set out on dawn patrol Monday to ski. We took Laurel’s favorite loop, out to Hobbit Hollow via the Troll Road. While there were bits of grass sticking up here and there, the […]
Read More →In the waning dark of 5 AM this morning, I ran in a light drizzle. On pavement. Running on pavement in the dark is my least favorite activity. You might even say I hate it. Today, I did easy repeats up a one-kilometer hill near my house. Up, and back […]
Read More →Sunday was another dawn patrol run up to Prospect Mountain. As the sun came up on the NY Thruway, I saw several cars headed north not with skis, but with multiple bikes on their roof racks. The Tour of the Battenkill is a couple weeks away; it’s not too early […]
Read More →With snow basically gone in southern New York, I woke up at the crack of dawn on Sunday to drive to Prospect Mountain. The change to daylight savings time added to the joys of sleep deprivation.
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