Gym pics/videos!

Gyms are good, maybe not the whole deal?

The photo is me (in yellow), and my buddy J (in pink), rowing a double. In the photo, she's 73, I'm 64.

She's now 75, I'm 65. Mid-July, just a couple of weeks back, we celebrated her 75th birthday by rowing our usual 4x per week 7k-ish, with 7.5 x (ten high intensity strokes, ten moderate intensity strokes) for her birthday despite the hot/steamy weather here. The 75th birthday row was in a quad (four person rowing shell, 2 oars per person as in the double photo below); the other 2 rowers were a 30-something former Big 10 champion varsity rower, and a 20-something former NCAA Div III coxswain who's also a great rower. Yes, J. and I can hold up our seats in the boat, and row with them.



After the birthday row, we went out for brunch, with good craft beer to toast the occasion. J. is an inspiration to me. She's been weight training since her 30s, when that was Not Done by women; has run a marathon in middle age; and even now is more active and functional than your average 30 y/o woman, I think (and looks it!). Be like J.!