A Summer of Great Riding – Away we go, on our bikes!

By Dave Kraus

It’s summer, time to ride! You may have been sweating hard on that trainer all winter (haven’t you?) and venturing outside in jackets and tights this spring. Now it’s time to reap the rewards of that dedication and get out to ride in just a jersey and shorts. Remember what that’s like? Even if you’re a casual cyclist, the summer sun blesses everyone on a bike, so call up your calendar for the summer and mark these dates and events. Then head over to each website to sign up and enjoy a summer of great cycling with your family, friends and new friends. READ MORE

Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Mo – Click Your Heels and GO!

By Laura Clark

With so many race options in June, unless you don Dorothy’s red shoes or, more recently, Hermione’s time-turner, every weekend presents an eenie, meenie, miny, mo dilemma. The only option would be to compete back-to-back Saturday and Sunday, but even then, these races are so heavily stacked that you would still be missing out. Perhaps this is the time to reserve one day for racing and the other for running with your kids – provided they are still slower than you are! – or mentoring a beginning runner. READ MORE

Fish Creek/Rollins Pond Loop and More

By Rich Macha

The area of the Adirondack Park to the north and west of the Village of Saranac Lake offers a great assortment of paddling opportunities. Some of the more popular destinations include Fish Creek and the ponds that surround it. A loop can be made that incorporates Fish Creek with five ponds entailing less than a half-mile of relatively easy, by Adirondack standards, carries. Adventurous paddlers can add a side trip to another pond along the way. READ MORE

Growing and Improving – Saratoga Mountain Bike Association

By Josh Clevenstine

If I zoom out and think about what Saratoga Mountain Bike Association is all about, what it means to me, what I see friends enjoying the most about it, I would boil it down to the above two words. Whether referring to your individual mountain biking journey of progression; the trail network at Daniels Road or Pittstown state forests; the rapidly-growing popularity of winter fat biking on The Snowlercoaster; or the greater goal of fostering, promoting and protecting mountain biking in the Capital-Saratoga Region, growth and improvement are synonymous with SMBA. The past couple years have seen some tremendous deliberate moves made that have set up, what is likely to be, a fantastic year. READ MORE

Lifestyle Strategies for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

By Paul E. Lemanski, MD, MS, FACP

Medicines are a mainstay of American life and the healthcare system not only because they are perceived to work by the individuals taking them, but also because their benefit may be shown by the objective assessment of scientific study. Clinical research trials have shown that some of the medicines of Western science may reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular death. READ MORE

Mark and Tonia Wilson

By Tom Denham

When Tonia Wilson met a boy in kindergarten in rural western New York, she never imagined that the two of them would be running a successful triathlon business. “I met this boy in kindergarten. He was my first love, and I thought we’d be together forever. He moved away while in high school. When I graduated our family moved to Florida where I attended travel school,” she says. Thirty years later, after having a career, getting divorced and raising two sons, she found that boy again. Mark and Tonia are still madly in love and now run Wilson Endurance Sports. READ MORE

Northville-Placid Trail – A Perfect Two-Week Fitness Vacation

By Jeff Case

I’d always considered myself fit. When I was young, I had a newspaper route that was eight blocks from my home and I carried my papers to it, lest someone pilfer from my meager profits. I played baseball in high school. I put a ton of miles on my Fuji S10s road bike. I was on the ice every winter, slapping pucks all over the place. I ran, walked, and worked out at home. My senior year I didn’t even have to take Phys-Ed; they offered me “independent study” credit. I simply had to log my activities whether I was bowling or pumping iron. READ MORE

Our Boston Marathon

By Shaun Evans

Shamus and I have been running together since he was old enough to sit in a jogging stroller. Shamus led the way as I trained for dozens of marathons in his early years. In 2013, Shamus became more than just my training partner. That year he and I began racing together. Since then, we have run countless road races of every distance, trail races, triathlons, ultramarathons, and of course, our transcontinental runs across America in 2015 and length of the Mississippi River in 2017. Over the years, running Boston together was always in the back of our minds. Shamus had heard me speak about the Boston Marathon for years… the history, qualifying standards, Dick and Rick Hoyt paving the way for duo teams like us, the party atmosphere of the race, and of course, the hills! While Boston was always something we wanted to do, it was never an immediate goal because we knew, per Boston Marathon rules and regulations, that Shamus could not participate until he turned 18. READ MORE

Robbi Mecus

By Pete Nelson

My wife and I have an inholding deep in the High Peaks, the northern border of which lies along an historic survey line. Part of the Old Military Tract, it was first surveyed by John Richards in 1812, then remained untouched until 1921, when surveyor A.H. King reran the line, finding some of Richard’s own marks and “boxing” them for identification. I’ve bushwhacked part of the line, but not the part where these old survey marks might yet be discovered. Richards’ blazes are no doubt long gone, however King’s, made a century ago, might still be visible to the trained eye. READ MORE