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Photo of the Week: Walking Club Group

Walking group at NE Georgia Medical Center
Walking group at NE Georgia Medical Center

Today we had the first walking club meeting at a NE Georgia Medical Center Brasleton. We start with discussion of walking techniques then walk three 1.1 mile loops. You can walk any distance. Beginners and advanced welcome. Speed walking/race walking also discussed. We will meet MWF at 8am inside the front hospital entrance. Open to the public but many people from Village at Deaton Creek attend.  Register for walking club Robert Fowler

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Sports Keeps Seniors Active

Mary Ann and I attended the USATF Masters Indoor Championship a couple of weeks ago. We saw many example of seniors excelling in track and field sports of all sorts that many thought not possible a few years ago. Many of these seniors will be at the World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor at Toruń Poland next week.

Thanks for photographer Rob Jerome for allowing me to post some of his photos from the USATF Masters Indoor Championship.


Betty Lindberg, 94; Christel Donley, 84; Rose Green, 80; and Irene Obera, 85.
Team USA has perhaps the most successful group of female and male athletes over the age of 80 in the world.
Rachel Guest in the lead.

Oscar Peyton, 66, beat Damien Leake, also 66, by .02 of a second in the M65 60 meters
John Starr, 90, today won Gold in the M90 3000m Race Walk with a time of 24:38.97, shaving almost 6 minutes off the American Record.
At Winston-Salem Indoor Nationals, Bruce McBarnette, 61, won his 41st national title in Masters High Jump.

In a highly competitive field, Mark Williams, 46, left, won Silver in the M45 400 meters. Note: my wife Mary Ann is watching on the left back side of this photo.

These seniors show us all what is possible and serve to motivate all of us as well.