I like technology. There, I said it. For someone of my generation, that admission may require a little explanation. I grew up in an era when a bicycle had two wheels, a speedometer was something you put on your car, and the most sophisticated piece of athletic technology available was probably a stopwatch—and you had…
I find myself playing it safer these days. This is not because I’ve lost my appetite for challenges. If anything, decades of training, competing, and pushing my limits have reinforced the value of testing myself. The difference is that experience has changed how I evaluate risk. In my younger years, safety was only one consideration…
Why Health Means Something Different to Everyone Spend five minutes in any health forum and you’ll see people use the word health to mean wildly different things. For some, it’s about looking good in their clothing. For others, it’s a deeper, more metaphysical aspiration — feeling well, feeling capable, feeling whole. As a conservative healthcare…
There are moments in all of our athletic journeys where the advice and sales pitches become more of a distraction than a help. Between the endless sea of fitness influencers, data-driven training metrics, and well-meaning advice from the “experts,” it’s easy to forget a fundamental truth: you are racing your own race. As an older…
In the world of athletics, “grace” is often seen as a characteristic of fluid, elegant movement. Athletes who seem to glide effortlessly through their sport embody this quality. It is easy to associate grace with peak performance. There is also the definition of grace that describes a sense of fitness or propriety. This concept is…