By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Everyone should try to exercise every day because exercise helps to prevent diabetes and heart attacks by lowering high blood sugar and stabilizing plaques. A review of 12 studies shows that exercising within three hours after eating lowers blood sugar levels significantly because contracting muscles remove sugar from the bloodstream at…
Editor’s Note: Coach John Hughes reports that his cross-training regime of two weeks ago included two good days XC skiing, a fun day riding with a buddy and the next day falling off a ladder and breaking his right ankle and fibula. He’ll be doing a different sort of cross-training for a while. He’s non-weight bearing…
By Stan Purdum This winter, and for the past few, my wife and I have been able to escape the northern cold and spend January and February in Florida. And so, of course, I bring my bicycle along. Our place is in central Florida, not far from Disney World, but far enough away that I…
Editor’s Note: A buddy and I were riding last weekend when he mentioned that, while on a recent trip to Singapore, he read about a cyclist (a bike courier) getting charged for murder after running down a pedestrian. My mind immediately went to the two well-publicized instances I could recall of cyclists killing pedestrians in…
By Coach John Hughes Question: Fred Matheny said that Ed Pavelka took second in his class at Mt. Washington at 6’4″ and 190 lbs. I am 74 and I weigh 200 at 6’2″. I finished way back last year and will do it again in 2018. How should I train for it? I have lots…
