If you read this blog at all, you'll want to check out this link. It's my latest publishing, and for this story about how the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku ("Forest Bathing") interacts with MTB, I got to interview two of my bike heroes, Jacquie Phelan and Grant Petersen. I could write volumes about each of them, but if you really want to know, following those links will soon explain why.
You may be interested to learn that my title for this article was "Take It Easy". The editor changed it. That's fine, that's her prerogative. But my rationale was that by citing the Eagles' song, it subtly enforced the writing's message of a kind of restart, a return to mountain biking's more free-spirited, nature-loving roots in the seventies.
I had also included footnotes in the article that didn't make it into the "printed" page. Some of them were just to the scientific studies of Forest Bathing, but if you're interested, check out this from Outside Magazine and this organization dedicated to the pursuit.
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