Health advice: 50 ways to boost your wellbeing (Daily Telegraph)

Go fly a kite join a boot camp take up hulahooping or even just rearrange the furniture - getting your mind and body into shape does not have to involve the gym.

Extreme adventurist (Peninsula Gateway)

Gig Harbor’s Glenn Rogers, right, bicycles through the Abu Dhabi desert two weeks ago with a competitor slightly behind him. Rogers, 43, is a full-time father of five and husband to Cheryl. His team, DART-nuun, placed 13th among some of the most athletically gifted adventure racers in the world.

‘We Are at the Cutting Edge' (Valley News)

Hartford -- With the opening of the Upper Valley Aquatic Center just more than a month away, the smell of wet paint and cement dust permeated the air last week, while hundreds of workers in hard hats hurried about the building and a boom lift's beeps echoed in the background.

Van Sickle Female Athlete of the Year — Caryn Davies: A Golden Second Chance (The Ithaca Journal)

There's a unique stigma that comes with the label of second place. Pick any other result and the interpretation is accurately envisioned — third place, ninth place, 27th place and so on.

Natl. kayaking from today (The Hindu)

BANGALORE: About 80 contestants from 35 States and Services will participate in the 19th National kayaking and canoeing championship which gets underway at the Ulsoor Lake, here on Monday. Competitions will be held in senior men, senior ...