Ron Lawrence, who has run 13 Boston Marathons, tells AP writer Alicia Chang that “there is nothing like running on sand.” Geezer isn’t arguing, but he is asking “nothing good like running on sand, or nothing bad like running on sand?” Because, as Geezer remembers it, running on sand is […]

There’s a good reason why most mentally healthy people do not take pleasure in lifting weights: It’s boring. Sadly, there are several reasons why we they (Geezer respectfully distinguishes himself from "mentally healthy people") should lift weights. As this piece in Best Life reports, after age 24, men begin to […]

Quick, name the joint whose malfunction puts more amateur athletes out of action than any other. Gotta be knees, right? What with meniscus tears, ACL and PCL damage, tendonitis,and a dozen other painful events with long Latinate names, knees are like the Fords of body parts. (It’s OK, Ford was […]

OK, maybe you’re not kayaking down the Pacific Coast or hanging by your fingers on the wall of El Capitan. Maybe you’re in the living room of your condo in Paramus with a DVD player wired into the ancient TV that your soon-to-be-ex-wife couldn’t fit in the truck with the […]

Paul McHugh, outdoors writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, is one week into his 400-mile, estimated 40-day journey by kayak from from the mouth of the Winchuck River in southern Oregon to Crissy Field beach in San Francisco. What’s so cool about that? What’s cool is how the Chronicle has […]

Common locker room wisdom holds that our heart rate should never exceed 220 minus our age. But according to this piece by the Washington Post’s Moving Crew, that kind of one-size-fits-all advice can be left in the dirty towel basket. Different hearts beat at different rates, the Crew tells us, […]

When it comes to pain, what you hear is what you get. That’s the conclusion of a recent study that trained subjects to associate specific sounds with specific degrees of pain, then switched the sounds in mid-experiment. Subjects who received increased pain with sounds that had previously indicated reduced pain […]

Don’t try this at home. Or perhaps, only try this at home. It’s a health and dietary regimen that starts each day with one hour of TV, specifically life-size talking heads, includes a few tablespoons of canola oil (straight up) and several ounces of sugar water, and beyond that any […]

People who think of breakfast as a bowl full of unnecessary calories will have to think again, now that a Maryland Medical Research Institute study found that girls and young women who eat breakfast are generally slimmer than those who did not. The Boston Globe reports that the study, which […]

Now 270 miles long, the San Francisco Bay Trail is easily the country’s grandest state-guided effort to link together hiking trails and biking trails and deliver them all to the people of large metropolitan area. It is also only half done; another 270 miles is in the works. Writing in […]