Pumping Irony

Winter has arrived in the form of wet snow and icy sidewalks, so I’ve retired my bicycle for the duration and have been making the 1-mile trek across the river to my office on foot. I do this each morning with some trepidation, but my knee seems to be improving.

I’ve been battling a bit of a cold for the past few weeks, somehow managing to keep it at bay…

There’s a scene in Shane, one of my favorite westerns, in which the gunslinger Shane (played by Alan Ladd) and…

A week ago, this knee thing had me a little worried, but it’s been improving pretty steadily in the past…

I’m not a guy who visits the doctor very often (if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it), but I do…

I’ve been having a little trouble getting to the gym lately, so a recent article in Science Daily that delved into…

Mr. Parkour and I paid a visit last night to Gleason’s Gym, a sprawling gymnastics center artfully hidden in a suburban industrial…

The other night, I was standing in the kitchen minding my own business when my son, whom I now refer to…

My son and I traveled to the fancy gym in the suburbs last night for a workout.

Winter is giving way to spring around here, which makes my morning and evening walking commutes both exhilarating and treacherous. Patches of ice materialize at inopportune times, so mindful walking is the order of the day: one foot in front of the other. I’ve managed to maintain my footing so far, unlike My Lovely Wife, who has taken a couple of tumbles this winter.

After WWII, my father found a job delivering beer to bars and restaurants and liquor stores in St. Paul. This…

I was sweating my way through some overhead presses Monday night, when a curious thing happened: I had upped the…

I think I mentioned a while ago that my gym got a makeover recently — they really spiffed up the…

An old colleague of mine, who I like to call The Captain (our Air Force careers briefly overlapped in 1970), dropped…

My Lovely Wife and I got married on Facebook this evening. She, sitting comfortably in her favorite chair across the living room…

It’s definitely December now (a balmy 24 degrees this morning), so I’ve parked my bicycle in the garage for the next four…

Loyal readers of these pages (yes, you two know who you are) know me to be a bit random in my workout approach.

It used to be that the second day after basketball I’d really feel the pain (it’s called DOMS, delayed onset muscle soreness),…

Well, of course I played basketball last night — despite a weird twinge in my left knee and a general whole-body soreness from Sunday’s tennis match/basketball shoot-around. (What did you expect?)

Craig Cox weighs the pros and cons of shooting hoops at the club.

I strive on a fairly regular basis to reduce my natural obliviousness to things (it’s a guy thing), but I do not…