I told my son, Tim, today that I wished I were in better shape for the Head of The Charles and he just started to laugh. "At your age, for heaven’s sake, the entire point is doing it at...
700 CLUB SESSION
We went down to Virginia yesterday to appear on Pat Robertson’s 700 Club show. What a trip! He is a man of tremendous warmth and charm and he is a passionate believer in exercise. It shows, too. He looks great at...
A WEEK TO GO
It’s week to the Head of the Charles and tensions mount. Roared out the door at six this morning and there was ICE in the driveway. The hell with it…went back in for breakfast…let that pesky ice melt before I...
OLD BOYS IN THE RAIN
The weather forecast for this boat race in Vermont was for heavy rain, wind and cold. I was sensibly thinking of saying the hell with it when I made the mistake of mentioning it to a local pal who...
KEDGES WORK
I call trips like my jaunt up to the Green Mountain Head in Putney last weekend a "kedge". The term is described in thebooks but it roughly means a motivating trip or purchase of some damn thing that gets you...
