He was still a teenager when he enlisted in the army. He was one of twelve children, and he recognized his chance to make something of himself. He couldn’t know the United States would be at war within a matter of months. At eighteen, he found himself in the thick of battle defending the Philippines against the onslaught of Japanese …
What Happens When You “Tri”?
9:30pm Two months before the triathlon: Ken: Why don’t you do the Cedars of Lebanon triathlon with me? Diane: I’m afraid I couldn’t finish. I am not a good swimmer. I don’t run very fast. I’m 66 years old. I’ll stand out among all those young chicks. I’ll drown. I can’t. Ken: Sign up! You’ll love it! Diane: I’ll drown!
Dead Last – Fully Alive!
I did something new this Labor day weekend. I competed in the “15th Annual Tenderfoot Mountain Duathlon.” This was a race longer than any I have ever done in thinner air than I had ever run. 25 miles of cycling followed immediately by a 10k (6.2 miles) run. At the start I was full of enthusiasm, wondering if would I …
The Question we are Afraid to Ask
This post touches on a question we don’t want to think about. Yet life will certainly bring circumstances that force us to face it. It is a question that troubled me for a year after my granddaughter got lost in the Colorado mountain wilderness.
How do You get over a Twelve Thousand Foot Ridge?
My friend Danny de armas and I had just hiked three miles in the mountains of Colorado. Now we stood staring up almost a mile at the 12,900 foot ridge we had to to cross to make it back to base camp. We had been on our feet almost all day. It seemed that with each foot we gained in …