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See you in San Francisco?(THE LAST LAUGH)(National Senior Games)(Column)
Just five short months from now in August, tens of thousands of exceptionally fit senior citizens from every state in the nation will descend on the City by the Bay, in testimony to their preference of having their bodies wear out rather than rust out.
It's the National Senior Games, a biennial event drawing together women and men aged 50 to 100 of no outstanding skill level into a friendly competition. Age rather than skill level determines in which category athletes compete, which can be a curse or a blessing--or both.
Dozens of sports cover a wide range of interests from archery to pickle ball, lawn bowling to shuffleboard, golf to ... well, you get the idea. It was the lure of tennis that drew me to the event.
Road trip!
Around the middle of last summer my long-time friend Sue called me with an idea for a road trip next summer--which led me on a mind trip back to playing ice hockey on weekend road trips to Minnesota.
Sue is the friend who in our past has gotten me into many interesting endeavors, from playing ice hockey on the university club team to systematically destroying houses and commercial property to recycle building materials for Habitat for Humanity.
Her latest brainstorm was for each of us to independently qualify to represent Wisconsin in our individual sports, volleyball for her and tennis for me, so we could have a road trip to the National Senior Games to be held in San Francisco in August 2009.
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