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Turning 40 no roadblock for woman running marathon
For some, turning age 40 means getting old. For Sue Mixson, she put the aging process temporarily on hold by running in the Dec. 9 Rocket City Marathon in front of her family and friends. She celebrated her 40th birthday by braving the 20-degree temperature and completing the 26-mile race through downtown Huntsville and finishing in a time of 4:25:08. "It was a great celebration. The race made it a happy birthday instead of a depressing one," Mixson said. Mixson is a wife of 16 years to David and mother to Maddie, 12, and Drew, 9. "I wanted my husband and kids to see me do something like a marathon," she said. "Besides, turning age 40 was part of my motivation to run the marathon." She took up running at 33 to try to stay in good physical shape.
Pumping iron part of routine
The Commit to Be Fit Participant might only weigh-in at 150 pounds, but she is working on turning some of the weight into solid muscle. With a brand new exercise regimen in place, she is aiming to strengthen her upper body. And she is doing it free-weight-style. I dont just want to be a thinner person, I want to be healthier all around, Machefski said. Machefski admits she chose to focus on strengthening her upper body, because her legs were strong enough. When I started the whole exercise program, I could barely (lift) 50 pounds with my legs, Machefski said. Now, I know that with my legs, I lift 170 pounds. Machefski believes that the iron-pumping routine she is settling into is absolutely necessary if she is going to live healthier for the rest of her life.
Fit for the slopes, part III
Over the past few weeks, Club Fit's Tony Patenaude has worked us through a collection of exercises and routines to get us in shape for the slopes.
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The rotating rotation
Jeff Van Gundy dusted off Steve Novak, who said later that he made sure that his jaw didn't drop when he found out at the morning walk-through, to draw the Suns defense outside and give Yao Ming more room inside after Phoenix ganged up on him last season. When Yao picked up his second foul and went to the bench with about five minutes left in the first quarter (about a minute before he usually sits anyway), the Rockets were very much in the game, down 19-15. Yao had just hit a jumper and passed to Novak for a 3. They crumbled for most of the rest of the first half. Novak, of course, could not be blamed for all that. But he cannot be expected to be a solution, either. (Vassilis Spanoulis and John Lucas III, in a combined 14 minutes, did not get much done, either.) The Rockets were destroyed on the boards, absolutely killed, 55-36.
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