Entries filed under 'John Colver'

When Should You Cut an Adventure Short? A Coach Ponders When Enough is Enough

John Colver cut his big bike ride short—about 4,600 miles short. And that's OK, he says; after the first 4,000 miles, he figured the trip was already a success. Have you ever taken on a huge physical challenge and not quite reached your intended finish line? How did you respond? Waves of self-doubt? Gut-churning despair? Logic-defying determination to force yourself to carry on? All those options were available last fall to Colver, author of the book Fit by Nature, in which he advocates the use ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on March 15, 2012 1:52 AM & Tagged AdventX, Climbing, Cycling, John Colver and adventure | permalink | Comments



Paperback Rider: Book Tour by Bike to Cover 8,600 Miles

Forget the gym; exercise outside. That's the advice fitness coach and author John Colver has been dishing since 2003. Unconventional? So is his national book tour. Colver rolls out of a Seattle-area suburb today on a bike, pedaling toward the East Coast on the first leg of 4-month bike tour that will cover 8,600 miles and, he hopes, convince new converts of the benefits of using local parks, beaches and open public spaces to pursue fitness goals. Colver, author of Fit by Nature, is owner and ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on August 3, 2011 12:13 PM & Tagged Cycling, Fit by Nature, John Colver, books and fitness | permalink | Comments



How to Climb Mt. Rainier, Part 4: On Top, at Last

Enough humble pie. Success, I promise you, tastes much sweeter, and on Monday, July 26, I got the full-meal satisfaction deal when at last, 1 week after enduring an ego-crumpling failure, I stood atop 14,411-foot Mt. Rainier, the tallest glaciated peak in the lower 48. "For a few minutes, we're the highest people in the Pacific Northwest," my ace climbing partner, John Colver, told me on the summit. He meant physically, not psychoactively, of course. And in my case, the sentiment applied ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on November 4, 2010 3:19 PM & Tagged AdventX, Cathedral Gap, Disappointment Cleaver, John Colver, Mark Scheffer, The Mountaineers, mt. rainier and sunset summit | permalink | Comments