...gramma has no time to make you pancakes this weekend, she just took off at the 100 m dash.Or is she still in the middle of her 10 km run?
This women on the above picture is 78 years old, and she did the 10k under an hour. I appreciate these people so much, and I don't even hope that I will be something like this when I'm old...Anyways, what would be your sport for the golden years? (for me, it is definitely NOT running!)
Pictures were taken by me on the Canadian Masters Championship this year.
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I'm afraid, or almost sure that I will never be like her when I grow old, since I'm so called young now and I still don´t manage to do it.
We talked a lot about gonen years already, we all have lots of plans, Specially you, Nana, if I remember correctly. And yes, none of them are running. Sport? ... mmmm chess? Waterballet?
Ok, maybe I am obsessed with the problem of being old (and useless and - hopefully - having time!).
Maybe that is the time to try new things: how about extreme sports? You won't have anything to lose anymore, will you?
By the way, chess is really unlikely, I won't be able to tell the figures from each other :). Maybe living chess, remember, behind the physics department?
It is definitely not running, what I will do. But hiking: surely! I was always impressed by groups of very old people climbing faster than I ever could...Austrians are great at this (and I guess Swiss, too) - you just have to have some mountains at hand and go there regularly till you're very old. Quite a challenge here in Belgium!
It seems you'll have to move here when hiking times come.
Plenty of small and bigger and even bigger hills around...nothing else practically.
And since you will be quite chewy by then, you'll be safe from bears and mountain lions.
Yes. I will start the golden years in 2010 :D
And: if you don't want to go so far and want importable amount of bears, you can come to see me also... very diverse landscape, lakes, mountains, sea, ok, no desert, but packed close in a very small place :)
Minimam-canada.
Canada instant: you just have to add some water (e.g. the Pacific ocean), and -abracadabra- you get Canada.
I had to admit: Slovenia is nicer.
I have been there. Bled and around.
Amasing.
For the rest of you: go visit i., and look around there.
That country is underappreciated.
If you're eight and say you want to be an astronaut, people say you can be anything you want to be. If you're 38 and say you want to start a circus, people say ‘be realistic’. But who listens to people?
Notwithstanding, Slovenia is great, I'm sure.
And the first one to tell you "be realistic" will be your own 8-year old child. Life is just isn't fair.
The director of the Budapest Zoo had this dream since his childhood, but did different things (more realistic ones I guess)in the meantime. And when the position was opened, he just left everything behind...
Childish? Maybe, but who cares.
Your time will come too, when you can open that circus.
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