Living well after 50
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Going the Distance The St. Pete Mad Dogs Triathlon Club gear up for the next big race. Pages 4 and 5
Lin Dolen, triathlete
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LIFETIMES
Diversions
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Treasure Island. 900 W. Gulf Blvd., Treasure Island. (727) 360-4993.
Yoga with the Manatees: Adults Simply Meditate: Escape can enjoy the stress and busyness tranquil of daily life to discover views of the the peace of meditation manatees for yourself in these onebeing hour meditation sessions. Be cared for in guided through simple, Photo courtesy of The Bishop Museum the Parker profound meditations of Science and Nature Manatee that relax the mind and Rehabilitation Habitat while body and improve our wisdom engaging in yoga poses focused and compassion, leading to a on balance, flexibility and deep experience of inner peace strength. Group size is limited and contentment. Everyone is to 15 participants and advance welcome. $5. 10 a.m. Kadampa registration is required. 10 – Meditation Center Tampa Bay. 11 a.m. on the first, third and 201 Sixth Ave. S., Safety Harbor. fourth Sundays of the month. (727) 797-9770. Cost: $15 for members of the Discovery Society; $20 for all Hope Villages Mobile Food others. The Bishop Museum of Pantry: FREE prepackaged box Science and Nature. 201 10th St. of groceries with no ID or preW., Bradenton. (941) 746-4131, screening paperwork required bishopscience.org to obtain food. Free. 3 p.m. North Greenwood Library. 905 Surya Health and Wellness N. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Festival: This three-day music, Clearwater. (727) 443-4031. health and wellness festival
features the rock band Starship starring Mickey Thomas and other live performers, plus demonstrations and wellness products $25; $35 weekend pass; ages 12 and younger free. SunWest Park, 17362 Old Dixie Hwy., Hudson.
Chair Volleyball: It’s just like volleyball but instead uses a beach ball and caters to the activity level of older adults. $2 Rec Card; $3 No Card. 1 p.m. Dr. William E. Hale Senior Activity Center. 330 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. (727) 298-3299, dunedingov.com.
Relax & Renew: Pathway to Healing: Feeling stressed, sapped of energy or is your mind ruminating with thoughts? This program is for those who have a desire for improved sleep, peace and overall health! By sitting in a chair or by lying on your mat, Sherry Lieber, Certified Dharma Kshetra Instructor, will guide you through the process of relaxation, which includes natural breath awareness and visualization. Registration required at https:// eastlakelibrary.evanced.info/ signup/calendar. Free. East Lake Community Library. 4125 East Lake Rd. S., Palm Harbor. (727) 773-2665.
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Yoga on the Beach: Free onehour yoga class right on the beach, taught by our instructor Nancy. Bring a yoga mat or a towel and let your worries drift away as you follow yoga while looking out onto the Gulf of Mexico. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. 9 – 10 a.m. Caddy’s
Qi Gong: Improve balance, release stress and awaken your inner energy. Join us for slow movements and meditation. $5; $4 with Rec Card. 9:30 a.m. Hale Senior Activity Center, 330 Douglas Ave., Dunedin. (727) 298-3299, dunedingov.com.
Monday 4/25
Aqua Fitness/Aqua Yoga: Wednesdays. Aqua Fitness is a great cardio workout that’s easy on your joints. 2 p.m. Aqua Yoga has all the benefits of land-based yoga — such as stress and pain reduction, better body awareness, and increased flexibility. Being in the water increases your range of motion, plus it’s super fun and safe, outdoors in our gorgeous Florida weather. 3 p.m. Drop in rates. Walter Fuller Pool. 7883 26th Ave. N., St. Petersburg. (727) 418-7623, christafairbrother.com.
Thursday 4/28 Relax and Restore Yoga with Kai: Thursdays. All levels welcome, RSVP required. Tickets must be purchased in advance. 6 p.m. Studio 131. 9025 131st Place N., Largo. (727) 386-9639.
Friday 4/29 Treasure Island Friday Morning Market: Over 50 local vendors selling a wide assortment
of arts & crafts, foods, plants, fair trade products and some interesting flea finds. Live music. Walkable and pet friendly. Free. April, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Community Center Park. 154 106th Ave., Treasure Island. (727) 360-4121. Dunedin Downtown Market: More than 40 vendors selling fresh produce, plants, eggs, meats, cheese, honey, baked goods, soaps, candles, lunch bites and other great items. Live music. Dog friendly. Free. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. John R. Lawrence Pioneer Park. 420 Main St., Dunedin, FL 34698. TampaBayMarkets.com
Saturday 5/7 Yoga in the Park – 2022 Riverfest: Class is donationbased and will be instructed by Robin LC with The Calm Collective. No registration necessary. Please bring own supplies needed. All levels welcome, rain or shine. 9 a.m.
Water Works Park. 1710 N. Highland Ave., Tampa. (813) 380-8235.
Thursday 5/14 Paws for Stroke: Bring your dog and walk with us and show your support for stroke survivors, their families, and caregivers givers y. in your community. ic; Open to the public; register online. 7 a.m. Perry Harvey Sr. Park. 1201 N. Orange St.,, Tampa. (813) 666-7297, om.. om strokeadvocate.com.
Friday 5/15 Goat Yoga with Dr. Tanya Gold: Sundays. Join us for a fun and exciting yoga class! Two sessions available: 8:30 – 9:15 a.m., 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., weather permitting. $20 per person. The Dancing Goat Farm. 12502 Maverick Court, Tampa. (813) 226-7630, eventbrite.com.
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Members of the St. Pete Mad Dogs Triathlon Club get started on a run at one of many weekly training meetups.
Swim Bike Run Triathletes find support and mojo in the leadup to St. Anthony’s Triathlon. BY JULIE GARISTO Times Correspondent As the St. Anthony Triathlon swims, pedals and hoofs its way around the St. Petersburg waterfront again April 30-May 1, images of young, male and superhuman athletes too often come to mind. But if you look closer, you’ll get to know the triathletes who train with St. Pete Mad Dogs and other clubs throughout the bay area. You’ll discover people of all ages who are endearingly flawed and all-toohuman. Some are well past retirement while others are betting against the hand Mother Nature dealt them at birth. And they’re winning. Lin Dolen, 61, was born with cerebral palsy. From a young age, her
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mother encouraged her to stay active to overcome symptoms associated with the neuromuscular disorder, which affects coordination and balance. “I persevere through anything,” she said matter-of-factly. “I was never in a wheelchair growing up, but I did wear leg braces, and I had five leg surgeries to try to get my gait as normal as possible. When I was 10, I learned to ride a two-wheel bicycle, a regular two-wheel bicycle, and, you know, that takes balance. I mean, I really had to work at it.” Riding a bike meant freedom for Dolen. “I used to fall about 10 times a day,” she recalled. “When I was on my bike, I wasn’t falling down. So, learning to ride a two-wheel bike
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was a real pivotal point and so was swimming.” Dolen grew up in Connecticut with six brothers and one sister. Her father was an ultra-marathon runner, and her brothers were runners, which inspired her to be athletic in her own right. She had physical therapy regularly to loosen her legs, but when she was a young adult she slacked and her condition began to worsen. “I kind of rebelled when I was a teenager and I didn’t do my stretches, and when I got into my twenties, I was really struggling,” she admitted. so I started going back to physical therapy. I started trying to do any kind of movement. My motto is ‘improvement with movement.’”
Dolen said she wanted to move somewhere warmer, where it was easier to be more athletic outdoors, so, in 1996, she took an accounting job with an insurance company in Tampa and has lived in the bay area ever since. Today, she lives in Treasure Island. “I joined the Tampa Bay Runners Club in 1998, and I started by walking,” she said. “My friend said, ‘Hey, you’re always riding your bike, you’re swimming, so why don’t you do a triathlon?’” One of Dolen’s bucket list items is to complete a Half-Ironman Triathlon — which includes a swim that’s 1.2 miles, a bike that’s 56 miles and a run that’s 13.1 miles. “The closest I ever came was when I had three miles left on the run and they pulled me off the course,” she recounted. But since then, Dolen has completed a staggering variety of fitness challenges, including the St. Anthony’s swim relay in 2002 and the full Olympic-distance triathlon in 2003. She’s completed 14 full St. Anthony triathlons over the past two decades, and this year she’ll be participating in her fourth sprint event. “I never thought I’d still be here doing this 19 years later,” Dolen said with a laugh.
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To maintain her agility and endurance, Dolen has to undergo physical maintenance that goes beyond routine physical therapy and training. She credits LIFT Performance owner Lisa Jamison (profiled in LifeTimes in January) for keeping her active. The massage therapist, trainer, yoga instructor and breath coach has helped Dolen manage pain with craniosacral therapy, also known as CST, which uses gentle massage to examine membranes and movement of the fluids in and around the central nervous system, relieving tension, eliminating pain, and boosting health and immunity. “Sometimes I’ve had a bad hip over the years and Lisa was the only one who could get me walking,” Dolen said. “She’s been my Sherpa at races, and she is always there for her clients.” Dolen also gets encouragement and support from the volunteers and fellow triathletes of St. Pete Mad Dogs, a local triathletes training club. “I can always count on Mad Dogs to be there at a water stop year after year,” Dolen said. “I can always count on Mad Dogs for support and cheer.” Mad Dogs could fill a Netflix documentary series with their success stories. The nonprofit athletic club’s
website claims they are “fun-loving triathletes who train, race and howl together with members of all levels of experience and expertise.”
Mad Dogs has also gained international renown by hosting homestays for visiting professional athletes from around the world. Some enjoy their visits so much that they opt to relocate to Tampa Bay and become Mad Dogs themselves. The club has also provided a means for people to make friends and be part of a family-like community.
That’s just the baseline of what they offer if you ask their members. “We encourage people to do one, do more, do better,” said Kathy Morgan, who co-founded the club with her husband, Rue, and Katie Perry. The idea for the club came about in 1993 when the Morgans visited some friends, Katie and Ralph Perry, for dinner. “They were transplants from New York City and they were national and world champions,” Morgan recalled with an accent that revealed her Oklahoma roots. “There were all these people from St. Pete there, and my husband said, ‘How come we don’t know them? We’re in the same sport? So, we kind of got to meeting up with them after the races at the awards and stuff. When we started, the club was 10 people around a dinner table.” Now, almost 3,000 people of all ages of adulthood are official Mad Dogs.
“We always say: Once a mad dog, always a mad dog,” the 76-year-old club leader proclaimed.
“We do things together outside training,” Morgan emphasized. “It’s not just saying we’re friends. We really do things, we’re there for each other and go to the Saturday morning market and do other things.” Paul Talewsky, 71. A Mad Dog for more than 20 years. “We hold several events throughout the year, but we are perhaps best known for our Wednesday Night Swim & Social at Pass-A-Grille Beach in St. Petersburg.” The Mad Dogs’ offbeat events have become a favorite of local athletes of all skill levels. The weekly openwater swims, which feature laps starting from Pass-a-Grille Beach each Wednesday at 6 p.m., are free for members and nonmembers alike. Members provide coaching and advice and all-around encouragement through triathlons’ rigorous challenges. But Mad Dogs’ activities go beyond the triathlon circuit. Each New Year’s Day, from Fort de Soto North Beach, the club hosts the aptly titled Hair of the Dog 5K, a hangover cure that will definitely help you sweat out the toxins of Champagne and spirits imbibed the night before.
Mad Dog member Carolyn Kiper manages the homestays for visiting athletes. “We had a pro, Rene Vallant, who came to stay with me every other year, except during the outbreak of the pandemic, since 2003. He moved his family here for about a year to live here and experience the local lifestyle and have his son go to elementary school here. They’ve since moved back to Austria, but he was here again this year. We’re going to visit him in Klagenfurt, Austria, which has become a sister city of sorts of St. Pete Mad Dogs.”
Before the start of the Chilly Willy Duathlon at Fort De Soto. John Hollenhorst (69, club president); Cindy Yost Perret (68); Paula Shea (64)
Vallant coaches a group in Austria now and routinely brings a team with him to St. Anthony’s to compete. What makes Mad Dogs appeal to people from around the world, according to Carolyn? “I think it is the inclusivity. We love everybody from all walks of life no matter your level of fitness or background. All are welcome.”
Jill Voorhis, 61, St. Petersburg
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How to give it a ‘tri’ The sport of triathlon has exploded in popularity over the past couple of decades. BY JULIE GARISTO Times Correspondent Novice participation in the sport has increased 94 percent since 1994, according to USA Triathlon, a national sanctioning body. St. Anthony’s Triathlon is one of the premier multisport events in the United States, offering a safe and scenic waterfront course, high-caliber competition and race management. The event’s three USA Triathlon-sanctioned races include the Olympic-distance St. Anthony’s Triathlon, the Sprint Triathlon and the Meek & Mighty Triathlon. Early registration is highly recommended. Visit satriathlon .com for more information.
To find out more about the St. Pete Mad Dogs Triathlon Club, visit facebook.com/stpetemaddogs. Other local triathlon training groups include the Diamond Fitness Team based in Tarpon Springs out of Tarpon Total Fitness. Email info@tarpontotalfitness.com for more information. Kennedy Law Racing, based in Clearwater, recruits members from throughout Tampa Bay. Find out more at kennedylawracing.com. Both St. Anthony’s Triathlon event coordinators and St. Pete Mad Dogs provide volunteer opportunities. Mad Dogs enlists volunteers to pass out medals and water to athletes who have completed the Meek
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Jackie Yost, age 93, USA Triathlon Hall of Famer & Mighty Triathlon. St. Anthony’s needs doctors and non-medical personnel to guide athletes through the event check-in process (ID Check, packet, shirt & goodie bag distribution, timing chip pickup) and work other event stations. For details, visit run signup.com/Race/Volunteer/FL/ SAINTPETERSBURG/StAnthonys.
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STEP BY STEP
Sally Anderson
FITNESS JARGON
If you are new to the fitness world, you may have some questions about some of the common terminology used. Gym jargon was developed to avoid complicated scientific terms. Here are some common fitness phrases:
Circuit Training
Circuit training is composed of a group of exercises, usually between 4-10, at different work stations. At each station, a different muscle group is worked with short rest periods between each. A round is finished when each station is completed based on a set time.
Interval Training
Interval training is training with alternating intensity exercise levels. For example, if walking, alternate between short 30 second bursts of more intense walking with one or two minutes of lower-intensity walking.
Compound Exercises
Compound exercises differ from isolation exercises, where one specific muscle group is worked at a time. A compound exercise is when more than one muscle group is worked at a time. An example would be a squat, which engages core, quads, hamstrings, glutes, calf muscles and hip flexors all at the same time.
Sets and Reps
Reps is short for repetitions. A rep describes the number of times a specific exercise is executed. A set describes how many times to repeat that specific number of repetitions.
Concentric and Eccentric
A concentric movement occurs when muscles are shortened while eccentric movement happens when muscles are lengthened. An example is a bicep curl. When the arm is curled up toward shoulder, the muscle is shortened. When the arm is lowered, the muscle is lengthened.
Dynamic Stretching
A dynamic stretch is different from traditional “static” stretching because the stretch position is not held. Dynamic stretches are functional and warm up the muscles and ligaments to better prepare for the workout.
Downward Dog
Named after the way dogs naturally stretch, downward dog is a position that places your heart above your head, allowing gravity to increase blood flow and improve your circulation. The exercise helps improve posture, by opening up the chest and shoulders.
Spin Class
A group-based indoor cycling class where people ride stationary bikes, usually with loud music, for a cardio workout.
Core Training
Core training focuses on strengthening and conditioning the core muscles, which surround the middle of the body. Core muscles include the abdomen, hips, pelvis and lower back. They help with balance and stability.
Doms
Doms, or delayed onset muscle soreness, describes the soreness felt a few days after a workout, which includes new exercises.
Photos by Dan Canoro
Your Move | Demonstrated by Rita Hopkins WOOD CHOP WITH WEIGHT Targets entire core, shoulders, arms, chest, legs and glutes • Stand holding a weight with both hands. • Squat while bringing weight diagonally over to the outside of your left thigh. • Exhale bringing the weight with straight arms diagonally over right shoulder. • You will be pivoting on left foot until weight is above your head. • Return weight slowly back to the starting position. • This will complete one repetition. • Repeat 8-10 times then repeat pattern on opposite side. Tip: You may use a medicine ball or a weight. This is a great movement for golfers working on rotational movement, as it will help to add power to your swing. BENT KNEE DEAD BUG Strengthens core muscles • Lying on back extend arms toward ceiling. • Lift legs and bend knees until lower legs are parallel to floor. • Avoid arching low back. • Keeping torso still and abdominals contracted, slowly lower right arm behind head and at the same time extend left leg toward the floor. • Return right arm and left leg to starting position.
• Continue to alternate movement, repeating 8-10 repetitions on each side. Tip: Move slowly. The goal is not to touch floor but to maintain a neutral spine throughout movement. Stop before back arches off floor.
STANDING BICYCLE CRUNCH Improves balance while working entire core • Standing with feet shoulder-width apart, bend arms at shoulder height. • Contract abdominals while raising left knee as high as you can. • Slightly rotating shoulders to the left, bring right elbow to meet your bent left knee. • Return right elbow to shoulder. • Repeat 8-10 times, then change standing leg and repeat pattern. Tip: Exhale when lifting knee and inhale when lowering knee.
KNEE LIFT MARCH IN PLACE A cardio movement that strengthens legs and core, while improving balance • With feet about hip-width apart, march in place lifting alternate knees with arms punching upward. • Avoid leaning backward as you lift knees. Tip: Lift knees higher or march faster to increase intensity. Check with your doctor before starting a new exercise program. Sally Anderson is happy to hear from readers but can’t respond to individual inquiries. Contact her at slafit@tampabay.rr.com SSP Tampa Bay Times
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Mickey King, 59
MY FAVORITE CAR Palm Harbor
1977 Honda Civic
This is a photo of my red 1977 Honda Civic, nicknamed Mel, short for Melreonda (my little red Honda). I got Mel a few months before I turned 16 after spotting it on a used car lot. Once I got my license, this little car changed my life. I literally did EVERYTHING in this car. From driving up mountain roads meant for 4WD trucks to towing a small motorcycle back/ forth to college to shenanigans on the reclining seats. This little car would not go over 80, but I could chirp the tires shifting to third gear — it would get up and go! I washed it so many times the primer started coming through in places. I truly loved Mel.
I got orders to the Philippines and was only allowed one vehicle, so I very reluctantly sold Mel in July 1987 to a young man about the age I was when I first got Mel. When I returned to the U.S., I followed up with the fellow’s mother to see if by chance they might be willing to sell Mel back to me. I was heartbroken to find out the young man had wrecked it once and later ran it so hard the engine blew up so they took it to the junkyard. It still almost brings me to tears to think of it. It was just a machine, but it was also a tapestry of 9 of what I know now, were some of the best years of my life.
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