Start of Summer – No Shortage of Quality Races!

By Mona Kulkarni Caron

Challenge yourself, support worthy causes, improve your fitness, focus on your well-being, join the festivities of running – pick one or more of what motivates you and you’ll reap the benefits of running and walking. Check out these great events that offer a variety of terrain, venues, distances, and experiences – and sign up today. READ MORE

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Lake Lila Revisited

By Rich Macha

Although it takes a little effort to get there, Lake Lila is, without a doubt, one of the Adirondack Park’s premier paddling destinations. All of the lake’s shoreline is state land and it is now part of the William C. Whitney Wilderness, which also includes Little Tupper Lake, where motors are not allowed. The nearest paved road is a distant few miles away and the 1,400-acre lake offers 23 primitive tent sites and one lean-to for those staying overnight. READ MORE

Race Season is Here!

By Darryl Caron

Upstate New York is a hotbed for multisport athletes. Locally, the four largest clubs in the area are excited to reconvene their membership through weekly open water swims, bike and run training, social events, and especially racing! READ MORE

Starbuck Mountain

By Bill Ingersoll

Starbuck Mountain is part of a six-pack of mountains crammed into the geographically-busy region between NY Route 28 and the Hudson River. Seriously, just look at a topographic map and you’ll see the two rows of triple-summited ridges lined up perfectly with each other, the central axis skewed somewhat to the east of north. Starbuck accounts for two of the six, but the others are Harris Rift, Fox, Middle, and Black. READ MORE

Refocusing on a Killer

By Paul E. Lemanski, MD, MS, FACP

Over the past two years, the majority of the attention of this column has been directed to lifestyle and public health strategies to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. With the virus hopefully entering an endemic stage, it is time to turn our attention back to a killer no less daunting than SARS-CoV-2 – I am speaking of cardiovascular disease. In the last two years, Covid-19 has killed one-million Americans. In that same period cardiovascular disease – primarily heart attacks and strokes – have killed more than 1.6-million Americans. It is, indeed, time to refocus on this killer and the lifestyle strategies that combat it, which can in some studies reduce cardiovascular death and non-fatal heart attack by 70%. READ MORE

Samantha Roecker

By Andrew Waite and Mona Caron

Sam Roecker can add a Guinness record to her long list of running accomplishments. On April 18, Sam ran the 126th Boston Marathon in scrubs in 2:48:02 while raising awareness and money for nurses’ mental health to become the fastest person to run a marathon in scrubs, beating the previous record of 3:08:22. READ MORE

TJ’s Boston Experience

By Mike Langevin

Impossible is nothing in the mind of TJ Sherwin (Athlete Profile, July 2017) if you want something bad enough, as he gets set to run the biggest race of his life. As a child, TJ dreamed of running in the Boston Marathon. He did not know how he was going to get there or what he needed to do to make this happen but he was determined not to let anything stop him. READ MORE