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Running into Your Senior Years.
It sure is fun.
As we age it is important to stay in shape. This is not easy, but who said life was going to be easy?
My mum lived until she was 92. She developed dementia and had to be put in a home at 90. Until then, she walked every day at 6 am for the previous twenty years.
She would walk for 2 miles around one of the large malls in Victoria BC. All her friends walked inside but my mum would put on her large headset, start the marching music, and off she would go.
The only time she would agree to walk inside was if there was ice on the ground. She kept track of her miles and would let us know how far across Canada she had gone.
They would all meet up at the local McDonalds for their coffee. The seniors’ rate with a free refill. My mum and her crew were depression-era kids and they didn’t waste money…ever.
While my mum wasn’t an athlete she could work and walk rings around anyone half her age.
My dad was a natural athlete and played numerous sports as a young man but as he aged it just wasn’t done. Unfortunately, I didn’t get my dad’s athletic abilities. I did however get my mum’s hard work gene.
