FREE! SPORTS MEDICINE i RETAIL JUNKIE SUPERSTAR i RACE RESULTS i CALENDAR OF EVENTS BY TITLE vtsports.com VERMONT ® SPORTS Vermont Sports miVermontSports MAGAZINE Vermont’s Authority on Outdoor Fitness and Adventure July, 2010 | Volume XIX | No. XI VERMONT RIDE CENTER ROLLERSKI BIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS THE RECREATIONAL IS POLITICAL 5 QUESTIONS FOR VERMONT’S GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES VERMONT-MADE SUMMER BREWS 23:00 Sleeping soundly, you’re thankful for the realization that comfort is worth every ounce. 05:10 Awake at first light. Refreshed, with miles ahead. 16:30 Reach camp early — proving again small packs are the way to go. 20:45 Relaxed, enjoying the rewards of traveling fast and just light enough. photo: John Laptad The new Therm-a-Rest ProLite™ Plus mattress gives you more warmth and the added comfort you’ve learned to appreciate. Our patent-pending, diagonally-cut foam creates the lightest, most compressible, self-inflating four-season mattress available. 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The trails are experience working maintained by volunteers from with cyclists. the Stowe Mountain Bike Club (www.stowemtnbike.com) Specialty: with help from the Vermont comfort issues, Mountain Bike Association injuries, unusual cases. (www.vmba.org.) Photo by Peter Wadsworth (www.phwadsworth.com/ Quick on and off exit 4, I-91 ■ www.westhillshop.com ■ Putney,VT photo). For an appointment: [email protected] 802-387-5718 July 2010 Vermont Sports 3 EDITOR COMMENTARY BY KATE CARTER THE ICE CREAM WOMAN COMETH ow that July is here and and pleasant to give some kind of in- I’ve been there, on both ends of runners of their speedy approach. summer is half over, it seems dication, well in advance, that you are the equation, and it can be incredibly I did a quick Google search to see if Nlike an appropriate time approaching and passing. A cheerful frightening. I was often the person ap- there are any bells available for them, to remind people about good man- “Behind you,” or “Good morning,” or proaching from the rear, and rather although I had a hard time imagining ners. I don’t mean refraining from “Hey” is all it takes. than shock the shoes off someone, I how or where a skater would mount fl ossing in public or turning off cell Barking out “On your left!” can be added a very simple item to my handle- a bell. As I suspected, I didn’t fi nd phones at jazz concerts. I’m talking startling as well as confusing. Not only bars: a bell. And it only cost me about any, but I did fi nd Roller Bob (.com) about good manners as you recreate might the barker have his or her lefts six bucks. and he said inline skaters usually on Vermont’s roads, trails, and bike and rights mixed up, but it takes a mo- Like cell phones, bike bells come rely on their voices to notify people of paths. While you’re out there doing ment for the person who is being barked with all sorts of ring features. The one their presence. He also guided me to the sport you love, with other people at to fi gure out exactly what “On your I got sounds like the neighborhood ice Skater’s Bell, a cute little fi nger bell around you who are doing the sports left!” means. I don’t know about you, cream truck. I ring it well in advance, made especially for them. Roller Bob they love, keep this one word in the but when I hear someone yell “some- and sure enough, peoples’ heads turn says it’s impractical, because skaters front of your busy brain: share. thing, something, LEFT,” my inclina- and one ear cocks up, like Labs hearing using good form will have their hands It’s easy to forget, as you roll down tion is to go left. Some people are more the word “treat.” behind their backs, but Roller Bob ob- the road or rec path, that you are not inclined to go right-left-right, because “Treat-treat-treat,” I ring as I ap- viously doesn’t live near the Burling- the king of the highway. Others are you know how people are about their proach. People look around in conster- ton Bike Path or the Stowe Rec Path, out there too, traveling the same free- lefts and rights. That’s when you’ve got nation as if they really are hearing the where most of the inline skaters have way you are, so we all need to share a problem much bigger than bad man- ice cream truck. Then they see me and a more upright, arm-swinging form. I the space respectfully. ners, especially if the barker’s timing is smile, and everyone is happy. I don’t recommend they check out the Skat- Cyclists seem to be the ones most late, and the person ahead is suddenly even have to say anything if I’m not er’s Bell at starpath.com. guilty of inconsiderate behavior on bouncing from left to right only a few in a conversational mood, but usually Next time you head out for your fa- roads and trails. Usually, their ac- feet in front of the fast-approaching I call out something really goofy, like, vorite workout, whether it’s on a trail, tions are unintentional, but often swath of color on two wheels. Add a dog “Chocolate or vanilla?” which usually a rec path, or the road, and you’re ap- they are simply mindless. Coming up on a leash and suddenly you’ve gone gets an equally goofy response, and by proaching others from behind with the from behind and blasting by a walk- from a pleasant, contemplative outing then I have passed by and there are intention of passing, be friendly, give er or runner or a slower rider, with to a major adrenaline rush, with your good feelings behind me and within me, advance notice, acknowledge others, no warning, or even worse, a poorly entire life passing by as you all rely and all because of a cheap bell.