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VS April 10 Final.Indd FREE! SPORTS MEDICINE i RETAIL JUNKIE SUPERSTAR i RACE RESULTS i CALENDAR OF EVENTS BY TITLE vtsports.com VERMONT ® SPORTS MAGAZINE Vermont’s Authority on Outdoor Fitness and Adventure April, 2010 | Volume XIX | No. VIII WOOF! OUR ANNUAL DOG ISSUE Photo Contest Winners For Love, Not Money: Racing Sled Dogs Also in this issue: Dog Physiology King of Pain Gary Kessler Wagger Athletes Sports Medicine Rubbing Olympic Shoulders Available at: Available © 2010 Columbia Sportswear Company. All rights reserved. VERMONT SPORTS Publisher CONTENTS Chris Blau [email protected] DEPARTMENTS Managing Editor Kate Carter King of Pain Gary Kessler 4 Editor’s Commentary [email protected] 8 Walking with Brewster Advertising Sales and Phoebe Chris Blau [email protected] 4 Out & About Art Direction and Production A Dog’s Example Shawn Braley DOGS! 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Published by Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC Established 1990 Submissions: Contributions of news and articles Carter. Photo by Kate are welcome. We ask that queries for articles be sent by mail to our editorial offi ces. Only material that includes a self-addressed, stamped envelope will be returned. If submitting an article for consideration, please understand that while we On the Cover: Addie, in the heat of summer, going for a tennis ball in Waterbury Reservoir. Addie lives with park will contact you, it may take some time. ranger Rilke Greenmun in Waterbury. Photo by Kate Carter. Vermont Sports welcomes letters to the editor. You may email yours to [email protected]. Photographs: Do you have a photograph that may be of interest to other Vermont Sports readers? We like action shots of outdoor aerobic activities THE VERMONT SPORTS that our readers enjoy. Photos should capture the outdoor fi tness experience, preferably with a Vermont theme. Vertical format preferred. Slides, color prints, or high resolution digital photographs are welcomed. Only material that includes a self- addressed, stamped envelope will be returned. GEAR EXCHANGE Unless otherwise requested, all submitted material becomes the property of Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC and its affi liates. Copyright 2009 Vermont Sports M agazine, LLC. gear.vtsports.com All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. A Member of April 2010 Vermont Sports 3 EDITOR COMMENTARY BY KATE CARTER WALKING WITH BREWSTER AND PHOEBE he late William Styron is best that he can think, without the distraction known for his novel Sophie’s of conversation, and so that he can reach TChoice, from which the movie a meditative state, yet he doesn’t want to was made starring Meryl Streep in an become so totally absorbed in his thoughts Oscar-winning performance. In Styron’s that he misses out on his surroundings. posthumously published and lesser- Enter the dog. The dog, in all its glory, known book Havanas in Camelot, a keeps Styron from losing sight of the collection of personal essays, he writes countryside. “…one must also enjoy the about the importance of going on long scenery—otherwise an indoor treadmill walks with the dogs he had throughout would suffi ce,” he writes. Styron might his life. The essay Walking with have walked to write, but he also delighted Aquinnah struck a chord with me in in observing his dogs, especially Aquinnah many ways, but the section about jogging and the unmatched canine qualities she made me laugh out loud. Styron eschews exhibited while charging around the jogging, or running, in favor of walking, countryside. and says, “Many of history’s original I enjoy walking, as well as hiking, and most versatile intellects have been cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing with impassioned walkers who, had speedier my dogs, for all the same reasons Styron locomotion appeared to be a desirable enjoyed walking with Aquinnah, although adjunct to the idea of mens sana in I suspect I’m a bit more addicted to the corpore sano [a sound mind in a sound exercise high than he ever was. I heartily body], would surely have adopted it… ” agree with his philosophy about running. If As many of my friends and readers of I were to run, I would have to concentrate this magazine are aware, I just say “No” on my footing, breathing, pace, and the to running, so it was with great delight like, and though I would most likely pass dogs off leash is frowned upon or even after service, setting them free at an that I found myself in the company of the through a trancelike state along the way not allowed for assorted valid reasons. amusement park. great minds of the world who did not run, and even be a few pounds lighter, I would Fortunately, in Vermont, there are many I am fascinated when I watch my but logged many miles walking, instead. miss out on all the action going on around places were dogs are allowed, even welcome, dogs bound through the woods, jump over Further in the essay, Styron explains me. off leash. I have spent many hours training fallen trees, leap over brooks, and take in that for him, walking is not so much I’m not as particular as Styron about my dogs to come when I call, so I feel all the scents that permeate the ground about the physical exercise, but about walking alone. I enjoy the social aspect confi dent that no harm will come by letting and the air, and I admire and am inspired the meditative state of mind he achieves of exercising with friends, but it’s not my dogs cruise at will, though I admit I by their pure athleticism and enthusiasm while moving forward at a steady pace. essential. If it turns out no one’s available, would have a tough time calling them off a for life. They are truly free spirits, and it’s Styron did much of his writing on his no problem. I have two furry friends more hamburger in the hand of a friendly person. satisfying to see them in their element, walks. He says a walk “unlocks the than willing to keep me company, and Dogs have been forced to adjust their subconscious in such a way as to allow the truth is I’m more in tune with my lives to the confi nes of human lifestyles. almost as satisfying as watching them the writer to feel his mind spilling over surroundings and my dogs when no one When we go for walks, most of those sleep deeply in their shrimpy beds when with ideas.” else is around. restraints are left behind the second we we return home, tired and fulfi lled, paws And then he notes the most One thing I don’t do is walk with my exit the car. Our walks are when my dogs and eyes occasionally twitching as they important aspect of walking for a writer: dogs on leashes, and neither did Styron. can just be dogs. It’s like asking children dream of who knows what. “One must be alone.” He walks alone so There are some places where walking with to behave like grown-ups in church, then —Kate Carter OUT & ABOUT BY JOHN MORTON A DOG’S EXAMPLE ver the past 38 years, I’ve had consumes. No complaints about toast that’s Rosie is not the least bit self-conscious about acknowledge a couple of drawbacks. three Labrador retrievers. It burned, Brussels sprouts that are too soggy, napping. If nothing requires her attention, Labrador puppies are notorious for chewing Owould be an understatement to or scrambled eggs that are too runny. Rosie curls up and takes a snooze. Mid- everything in sight. Sacrifi ce an old pair of say that I’m a fan of the breed. All three Whatever’s in her dish, she gratefully scarfs morning, early afternoon, twilight, it doesn’t sneakers and you may preserve the rugs, dogs became members of the family, rather down.
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