Lazy River becomes
exercise path Story by Mike Kays Photos by Von Castor
J
ean Lewis was looking forward to a new year of it.
And there she was, among 68 in the second week of a summer program held every Tuesday at River Country Family Water Park, as the Lazy River becomes a resistance walk against its flowing current. Lewis, 79, of Muskogee and some friends were looking at different things that were fun to do for exercise when they came upon this. “It’s not hard. Anyone can do it,” she said of what is labeled “Walk Against The Flow” by Muskogee Parks and Recreation. “But you really feel it the next day in your muscles, so you do feel like you accomplished something.” She measures her workout in time — in 30 minutes, she estimates she covers a half-mile. Eight times around the river is a mile.
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