Category: exercise

  • You’re only as old as you look, and if you smoke you look older

    As if we needed any more proof to encourage us to avoid the destructiveness of smoking, a friend on Facebook just linked me to a website comparing identical twins: One twin smoked for a number of years, and the other did not. No need to read the identifying legend underneath … just observe the facial…

  • 10-22-14 10,000 steps to a gold star

    Exercise never makes it onto my list of things to do. Never. I never have to write down “play video game.” When I am obsessed with a game, I play instead of checking things off my ‘to do list” It began with a portable game of PacMan followed by a used Atari and games at…

  • Athlete of the day

    Failure is not an option for the true athlete. Jacob, my daughter’s husband, proved it doubly Saturday at the Boomtown Triathlon. The sprint begins with a quarter of a mile swim, a 15-mile bike ride and finishes with 3.1 miles of running, walking or dragging yourself across the finish line anyway that you can. Jacob…