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“Exercise does a whole lot of stuff drugs do, without the side effects.”

Miki and Peter Snell’s mutual athletic interests brought them together. Miki was also a runner, one of the first women to run in and win Dallas’ Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. She learned that Coach Arthur Lydiard and Peter Snell would be leading a workshop. “I knew who [Peter] was. All of us runners did. I was very excited to meet him.” At the time, she was in her 30s, he in his 40s, and they hit it off right away.

Peter needed a dinner date, Miki accepted and, two years later, they married.

Eventually, they grew bored with running — it’s predictable and tough to improve after reaching a certain age, they say — but they have remained passionate throughout the years about exercise, which Peter Snell calls “the fountain of youth.”

Each day Peter Snell rides his bike to work from his home near Northwest Highway and Abrams to work at UT Southwestern

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Dallas Eyeworks 9225 Garland Rd., Ste. 2120, Dallas, TX 75218 214.660.9830 in downtown Dallas. Miki often accompanies him halfway before returning home on her bike. They are part of a golf league at Top Golf in Lake Highlands, and they are competitive, even (perhaps especially) against one another, in the lesser-known sport of orienteering. It combines cross-country racing and topography tests in which a map and compass are used to find specific points on a landscape. Contestants compete to be first to pass through each point.

The Snells talk about competition, Peter’s Olympic past and his work in the field of aging. Visit lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/video, or scan this code to watch it on your mobile.

Peter, also a champion in his orienteering age division, likes the sport because it is one of the few at which one can improve as he or she gets older. Miki’s goal usually is to beat her husband, she says with a grin. But she is totally serious.

“I beat him a lot,” she says. “People say, ‘How can you beat him?’ But it’s about reading the map as much as it is physical ability.”

Miki Snell, a former professional dancer and Braniff flight attendant, has won several national orienteering titles in the last 20 years. Staying fit, in the long run, is about finding something that is fun, she says. For her, fun is trouncing others — younger orienteerers, fellow Top Golf leaguers and her husband, who is sitting quietly, smiling at his wife (they are obviously kindred spirits). “Competition is fun,” she says, “makes you feel like a kid.”

Peter Snell gets up and heads toward the kitchen, returning with a little gadget. “That reminds me,” he says. “I forgot to put on my pedometer today.”

They like to see who walks the most steps on a given day.

A competitive spirit can drive daily exercise, Peter says. If you don’t have a driven spouse like Miki to challenge you, compete with yourself, he says. “Keep a log. Challenge yourself to reach a goal.” As incentive for noncompetitive types, he suggests planning a skiing or hiking trip and then train for that. “I am often asked what is the best exercise, and the answer is: the exercise that you enjoy and will do.”