Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations on turning 90, Herb! I am a child by comparison, 51, and this month marks 3 years since I quit smoking and took up regular exercise. I cycled 47 km on Saturday and 62 km yesterday, in temperatures ranging between 30 and 37 C. I could not have done this when I was 35. So I guess it is never too late. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jun 10, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed Uncle > Ted's advice about regular exercise. I suppose I must have been influenced > by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago > when I was an undergraduate. His famous quote was: Whenever I feel the > urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes away." So my musculature has > gone to hell in the last year or so. > > For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light > aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called exercise. > > Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a > minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage lessons, > not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with the horse. I > was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was studying with her, > qualified as an Olympics judge. > > The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this horse > from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old and lame > prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another animal just as > the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a mud hole. My wife > persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait until spring, and I just > never got around to resuming riding. > > Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-) > > Herb > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >