The Classic Wooden Sailboat Rendezvous & Race took place over the weekend, highlighted by Sunday's race in the Annapolis harbor. The event, held at the National Sailing Hall of Fame, was a gathering of classic wooden sailboats and enthusiasts to showcase their history.
Last month, Runner's World magazine unveiled its ranking of the 50 best running cities in the United States. The top finishers were as unsurprising as the criteria considered — tolerable temperatures, an active racing scene, good trails and tracks.
Each year I'm tempted to not renew my subscription to Runners World as it often contains items similar to those published earlier. However, there are enough new articles to keep me interested. One such article in the October issue deals with The Runner's Heart, written by Amby Burfoot, a past RW...
Every few years, runners get treated to weather conditions that contribute to good times at the Annapolis Ten Mile Run. For the 41st running on Aug. 28, the day dawned with cloudy skies and warm (but not awful) temperatures. The fair conditions actually lasted for most of the better runners to...
What started out as a typical four-mile trail run quickly turned into a four-hour ordeal that was anything but typical. Not quite one mile into the run, I heard a thud followed by a shout. One of my running partners had gone down. Hard. As she stood and brushed herself off, I was shocked to see...
My first thought as I sat down to write this week was that we have been experiencing the mild temperatures of Indian summer — until I realized that summer didn't really slip away into the fall season until Thursday morning. The term Indian summer refers to mild and dry, hazy days with warm temperatures...
Correctional officers and staff from the Maryland Correctional Institution gripped a rope in their hands and pulled. They were cheered on by coaches and spectators as they tried to get a flag over a mark in the grass as part of the Run and Tug to Benefit the Special Olympics on Friday morning. ...
Amber Swift-Rose grinned as she lovingly touched the gold Olympic medal hanging from her neck at Baltimore's Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, where she had come to race in the swimming world's equivalent of Camden Yards. "It looks good on you," said Theresa Andrews, who won the medal for the 100-meter...
Esther Collinetti finds strength in vulnerability. She’s the co-owner of REV Cycle Studio, a spinning studio in McHenry Row, where she has offered high-energy, expletive-laden encouragement to spin clients since January 2014. Born in Nigeria to European parents, and raised in Chile, Esther has...
Over the past several years, the bag toss game of cornhole has grown in popularity, taking the cultural space formerly held by tailgate games such as Kan Jam or horseshoes. This Thursday, cornhole will reach a new audience as Westminster's annual FallFest hosts its inaugural cornhole tournament....
Conservationist John Craighead, who will be forever linked to America's wild rivers and a seminal study of grizzly bears, has died. He was 100. Craighead, who had been ailing for years, died in his sleep at his Missoula home Sunday, according to his son Johnny. The Missoulian reports that upon...
Martin Roesch named his J/111 Velocity because that's the key in sailboat racing. "It's all about speed in this sport," the Annapolis Yacht Club member said. Velocity showed tremendous speed in the 62nd annual Naval Academy Sailing Squadron Race to Oxford, crossing the finish line third and earning...
Illegal and unreported fishing is a multibillion-dollar business around the globe, and one that has proven notoriously difficult to combat. In part, that's because it involves a constant stream of renegade fishermen being pursued by countries that have only limited resources to carry out a perpetual...
Spoon umbrella rigs Monday, Sept. 19: The Broadneck/Magothy River chapter of the Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association will present a free seminar on using spoon umbrella rigs for rockfish, bluefish Spanish mackerel. Captain John of Patent Pending Charters will be the speaker. Doors at American...