Martha’s Vineyard Life Great Grains For nearly 30 years, Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin have carved out a fine reputation with their wooden boats. (Text below) Take a look around Vineyard Haven Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard, beyond the occasional sparkling, super-sized poweryacht and the shiny white hulls of some fiberglassContinue Reading
I ended Devil’s Den with 51 miles. Moments before it started, I had kind of a moment of panic. Really, a moment of clarity. I hadn’t done anything like this in more than three years. I hadn’t done a legit trail run of their lap distance (6.4 miles) in overContinue Reading
Macho Van Vandy Savage is loaded up and ready to go!!! I’m excited to be headed to Vermont to tackle the Devil’s Den Ultra, a 30-hour race with tons of elevation and technical terrain. After COVID and the knee injury, this will be my first trail ultra in four years.Continue Reading
FUNNY STORY (and last Buffett post, I promise): Back in the summer of 2000, I was working at a newspaper when I saw a job ad for an associate editor at a boating magazine. I really wanted to get into magazines, and a boating magazine seemed REALLY cool. The problemContinue Reading
The reporting will focus almost entirely on margaritas and cheeseburgers and Hawaiian shirts. He made a lot of fans and a whole lot of money marketing that stuff. But to me that’s all BS. I’ve always maintained that if you look deeper than all the schtick, to some of hisContinue Reading
I need a lawyer. I’m looking for legal advice for an upsetting situation I’m dealing with. My daughter has been leaving packages of dessert food out with signs stating it’s a $10 fine if I have one. She leaves this food out in the open instead of putting it awayContinue Reading
That. Was. Awesome. I was going to say it’s the most fun I’ve had at a race I wasn’t in, but given I didn’t have to suffer at all, safe to say it’s the most fun I’ve had at a race… period. While these folks have done races before, thisContinue Reading
When you see people persevere when things get uncomfortable and difficult, it’s a beautiful thing. That’s why I love trail and ultra running. It often pushes people to the brink; to points where they’re uncomfortable, where they’re unfamiliar; to where the voices in their heads say “This hurts. This isContinue Reading
“I just can’t get motivated to workout.” I hear this from people all the time. People who think motivation is the key to fitness, and they’re waiting from some magic switch or hack that will get them motivated … and then they’ll crush all their fitness goals. Motivation isn’t comingContinue Reading
In Fitness and In Health 6 Tips for Dominating Your New Year’s Resolutions Successful New Year’s resolutions are all about the details. If you’re like most people, you see New Year’s resolutions as a discouraging annual cycle where each December you set up lofty goals… and then find yourself offContinue Reading