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Inspired by the 80-something Superagers

— by Alyson Walsh

 

Two things have made me want to start running properly, again. One was the travel journalist I met in New York who began entering marathons in her 50s (we cheered her on at around the halfway mark) and the other is Superager Irene Obera, 84. ‘You have to move it or you’re going to lose it,’ Obera explains to the BBC team documenting her Advanced Lifestyle. Running, bowling, tennis, gym; you name it, this record-breaking, 80-something Superager does it. Spending a ridiculous amount of time at a computer screen and having a niggling back injury, I’m aware that over the last decade I’ve steadily been losing it. At the age of 40 I ran a half-marathon, and have become increasingly sedentary ever since. Inspired by the Superagers, I’m going to get back on track; while repeating Irene’s mantra, ‘A quitter never wins, a winner never quits.’

Watch a video clip of super-active Irene Obera HERE; there are more Secrets of the Superagers HERE.

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