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Now I’ve lost my catcher’s mitt, a 1958 MacGregor Joe Astroth model. I found the hat, the longjohns, and even the original Photon. (Now I’ve got three, no doubt soon to be two. Then one. Then….) Never did find the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Barrier breaker, great champion, class act. When she crossed the line to win her first NYC Marathon, no one knew who she was. “When she ran that first New York race, she had never run more than 13 miles. She … Continue reading
About 25 years ago, we went downhill skiing with (then childless) friends at a Vermont resort, and we parked a dubious four-year-old H in the nursery/ski school for a few hours while we went off to taste the mountain. She … Continue reading
I think I’m safe in saying that this is the last of winter’s snow. The high ridge of white mountains that had taken over the driveway has dwindled, finally, in mid-April, to this dirty, pathetic lump. Good riddance. … Continue reading
Around the first of December, I was sidelined (from running, not walking) by a not very painful left metatarsal stress fracture (or maybe a stress reaction), a pretty common injury among runners, but the first one I’d ever had. I … Continue reading
Continuing the Routeburn, and cresting Harris Saddle, we dropped down toward Harris Lake and the most profoundly beautiful view of the trip. No photo (of mine, at least) could begin to replicate what we saw looking across Harris, toward the … Continue reading