Originally, Craig Ligibel planned to kayak the entire 2,000 mile route that follows Lewis and Clark’s trail along the Missouri River, albeit Ligibel planned to travel west to east. Then a Montana-based river guide talked some sense into the writer, who settled on a 149-mile, nine-day excursion from Fort Benton […]

The Boston Globe awards a five star rating (meaning, the Globe explains, that it “will be the topic the day at your office”) to the bike trails of Willowdale State Forest, in Topsfield, about an hour northeast of Boston. The two-to-three hour ride described here takes riders over rivers, through […]

A reader of Outside Online asked the site’s fitness expert, Chris Carmichael, to answer a question that we’ve often wondered about: how does lap swimming compare to other aerobic workouts? The easy answer, of course, is that it depends on how much effort you put into it. But Carmichael gives […]

For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stuck with their recommendation of DEET as the best defense against West Nile-bearing mosquitoes. Not this year. The Washington Post reports that the federal agency now says repellents containing the chemical picaridin or the oil of lemon eucalyptus offer “long-lasting […]

That’s right. Across America. If you’ve ever dreamed of cycling across the country, now’s your chance to do it vicariously, also known as painlessly, by reading the blog called SRRAAM –obviously short for “Sarah and Ron Ride Across America.” Sarah and Ron (you know them as well as we do) […]

What’s Your Workout?, The Wall Street Journal’s occasional column on what executives do to keep going strong looks at Walt Freese, the 51-year-old CEO of Ben & Jerry’s. Freese, who has meditated since he was 17, says that he found as he approached mid-life that he needed "a goal to […]

Washington Post writer Angus Phillips spent $100 on a shocking pink Pyranha kayak and drove out to the class III rapids of the lower Gunpowder River, where, he tells us, he came very close to getting a high opinion of himself. That was before the nose of his boat dipped […]

How can you run faster? That sounds like such a simple question, but of course, the answer can be as simple or as complicated as you like. That’s why we like this answer from Karen Hancock, an endurance coach at London’s Serpentine Running Club. Hancock begins with the simplest advice:run […]

The adage “older and wiser” may soon be elongated to “older and wiser and fitter” if a current trend reported by American Sports Data continues. The sports marketing consulting company looked at health club participation information from 14,684 people and found the biggest increase, by far, among people 55 and […]

Many Americans eat healthy, many do not smoke, many keep their weight down, and many exercise regulary. All of which sounds great, but according to a new study whose results are published in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the percentage of the population that does all […]