Mary Wittenberg, president and CEO of New York Road Runners and the race director, is giddy with delight whenshe talks about Lance Armstrong’s participation in November’s New York Marathon. "Lance epitomizes both theAmerican spirit and the spirit of the marathon and it is no surprise that his drive, motivation and focus leads him tohis next challenge – 26.2 [...]
Recently a study was conducted in good ol’ sunnyCalifornia, which determined that men who received a good dose of sunshine were half as likely to develop prostatecancer. Of course the danger of skin cancer was also explained and fish oil rich in vitamin D was recommened as a sortof back-up plan for those who can’t get out into the [...]
We are fisherpeople, who fish the rivers ofthe Pacific Northwest. Each spring, and each fall, the salmon maketwice-yearly runs to the sea and back upstream again to where they began in the mountain waters. We wait, and we watch,for the first signs of the salmon’s return to the rivers we fish. Today, we believe we observed the first signs [...]