MSGC Fitness Travel

Whether you’re a competition mountain biker or enthusiast staking the trails all over the country, there are countless bikes with a variety of features to suit your needs. Even if you’re just starting out, selecting a bike that’s durable and yet tough is great way to expand your skills and venture into some truly breath [...]

Travel and fitness should go together perfectly – indeed, we are always complaining about not having time to work out so what better time is there than when you’re abroad. For business travellers this holds true as well as they are often few things to pass the time between meetings. Of course you may not [...]

Recently, in Los Angeles, there was a charity event held to raise money for prostate cancer research.  Most charity fitness events are either bicycle races or races.  This one was a bit different.  Participants would repel – en masse – down the face of the Nakatomi Tower sky-scraper, raising money and awareness for a very [...]

We were travelling through the pan-handle of Texas a few months ago when my buddy saw a road sign: “Try the Big Texan Challenge – 72 ounces of steak.  One hour.” Surely they didn’t mean you had one hour to eat it?  We had to find out.  As we approached Amarillo the signs for the [...]

Looking for a high-flying adventure?  Here at msgcfitness we swear by the adrenaline rush and endorphin high you get from the sport of sky-diving.  Flying high above the earth, taking that first gut-wrenching step out of the plain, plummeting at terminal velocity then feeling the jerk of the lines as your parachute unwraps: nothing beats [...]

For marathon runners, there are a few races that are a must over the course of a career.  The top three in this category are, without a doubt, the New York City Marathon, the Boston Marathon, and the London Marathon.  The London Marathon, held each spring in the city of London, is a must for [...]

Spring is here and that means it’s time to break out those bicycles and take back the pavement.  For my inaugural ride I decided to attack The Climb on the road to Sandia Crest.  This monster hill, consisting of fourteen miles of constant climbing up the eastern side of the Sandia Mountains, is one of [...]

I had been doing a fair amount of cycling and running in the city and was feeling the need to get out into the country side away from the noise and pavement.  Thinking an overnight camping and back-packing trip would be the perfect get-away, I called up some friends and planned a trip to Lake [...]

Cody called me up a few days ago with an invite to join him on a down-hill mountain bike ride in the Jemez Mountains.  On the way up, he gave me the details of what sounded like a fun little ride. Located just outside of the Jemez Indian Reservation, the Jemez national park was chain [...]

This weekend I wanted to take a break from beating myself up on the trails and find an activity that would allow me to get wet, soak up some sun, and quaff a few beers.  Fortunately, coinciding with my lazy weekend was the annual Rio Grande River Run. An annual “race” down the Rio Grande [...]