Welcome to O.B. Senior Blog
By Welcome to outerbanksseniors.com. I hope you’ll enjoy this journal/bulletin board for Outer Banks seniors. You willl find calendars of activities for the senior centers that serve the area’s senior community, stories about Outer Banks seniors and issues that concern us. Health issues will be a focus from time to time. You will also find news of social and volunteer opportunities for seniors, as well as a calendar of events for the centers that serve area seniors.
When a loved one passes away, there is often a sense of wanting to memorialize him or her, to explain your loved one’s life and surround your grief with the meaning that was this person. Email your tribute to lp@outerbanksseniors.com or send me the phone numbr of email address of the next of kin and I will interview and write abour your loved one. Make it down-to-earth to convey a sense of who this person was and what his or her legacy is.
Remember the personals you enjoyed in your local newspapers years ago . . . so-and-so visited her son in New York City two weeks ago and found all healthy, etc.? You are welcome to inform your friends about recent happenings such as trips, grandchild births, etc.
You are also invited to send photos of your grandchildren, children, too, and a brief desctiption of the photo.
A little about me. I am Linda Putnam. I have been a staff reporter for a local newspaper for 22 years covering community events, news, and more.
I would like for this blog to combine some of these elements with senior comments.
So there it is. I hope this little blog will inform, entertain, bring folks together and make your day a little brighter. To get in touch with me, just remember this email address, lp@outerbanksseniors.com.
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As a senior I’m having some of the best years of my life that included 22 years in the USAF and 16 years in corporate life. I’m a spin instructor at the OBX YMCA specializing in seniors (50+). I have four folks in their 80s, numerous folks in their 70s and 60s, and a few in their 50s. We spin together as the “Silver Riders” and moreover, many of us bicycle outside together at distances ranging from 20 to 60 miles (some of them will ride 100 or more miles within the next year).
For myself at age 65 I discovered the pleasure of riding a bike; and then the joy at competing in various race formats. In my age group (65-69) I’ve won the NC Senior Cycling Championships and the Virginia Senior Cycling Championships. I’ve also won a 12 hour endurance race in Ohio (Calvin’s Challenge) and plan to compete in a 24 hour race in Michigan in 2010 and if that goes well, to compete in a national level 500 mile race in Texas in September.
One of my heros is Richard Lawrence, now 83, who has been cycling in the Outer Banks NC State Senior Championships (and won) for many years. He is a nationally renowed long distance cyclist and is much loved by endurance cyclists across the US. He introduced me to endurance racing, for which I am very grateful.
Bottom Line: as seniors we don’t have to be couch potatoes; we can, instead, attain and maintain a very vigorous life style and enjoy those activites as much as we did at much younger ages. I strongly urge all seniors to read and follow the wonderful advice found in “Younger Next Year” and “Younger Next Year for Women”, NYT best sellers that provide wonderful advice, written in an interesting, entertaining (even funny) style that will enable nearly all seniors to become younger (in a health sense) next year than than are this year (even years ago). I followed the authors advice and am healthier now, soon to be 70, than I was 20 years ago.