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Going for 100 Plus

Posted by Timothy Ross on February 20, 2023 at 6:03am

"Everyone wants to live longer but no one wants to grow old"

 

Larry Lewis (1867-1974) - Find a Grave Memorial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162125436/larry-lewis

 

I spoke of running to play golf earlier my good friend the well-known golfing writer Gary wiring tells the man in San
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Francisco who jogs 6.7 miles every morning as the distance around Golden Gate Park he also walks five miles to
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and from work he works as a banquet waiter boxes a couple of times a week and toss it in eight or nine games a
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handball as you can imagine he's in magnificent physical condition he's also 103 years old
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his name is Larry Lewis and he began running in 1876 at the age of nine and he's been running and keeping as active
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as he was at that early age ever since he's made the comment that you should never refer it to a person as being so
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many years old since old often means something dilapidated Larry Lewis doesn't intend to become dilapidated
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especially during his second 100 years Gary wiring suggests that each of us should ask himself these questions are
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my muscles getting soft and flabby do I feel chronically tired and dragged out Emma clumsy performing physical tasks
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which once were relatively easy for me can I feel and see unsightly bulges of
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fat on my body do I have to stop and catch my breath after climbing one or two flights of stairs is my physical zest for Life
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missing or rapidly failing if you agreed to more than a couple of those questions you may well become a victim of
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premature aging here's another great contributor to the cardiovascular plague I mentioned earlier it isn't that we
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want to live forever even as old as Larry Lewis maybe although I think it's a great idea if you're enjoying life but ...
 
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