I was sitting at the bar at Le Depot with my friends Jacqui and Simon when I noticed the 20-something bartender pouring a pale, pink drink into a chilled martini glass. Sigh. A Cosmopolitan.

Every summer, mountain bikers and road cyclists hobble into our gym complaining of lower back pain. They can’t tough it out anymore. While they claim to “stretch” regularly (their muscles, not their ...