A Late Start

This awesome guest post is by one of our favorite Cranketeers, Death Ride Grandma!  Crabby and The Lobster are undertaking their season migration from one coast to the other, this time via airplane rather than in Fran the Van.  Crabby is most likely, at this very moment, cursing sleepless redeye flights and crappy 6 a.m.airport food choices and barfy ferry rides and the necessity of unpacking random boxes of crap in order to find coffee-making supplies and clean underwear. So how awesome is it to have an inspirational post from an articulate kick-ass blog comment contributor instead of bleary blog blatherings from a semi-comatose crustacean? And now please welcome... Death Ride Grandma! Advantages of taking up serious exercise when you’re…when you’re…well, not exactly young any more: 1)    You have a lot less wear and tear on those joints. Runner’s knee? Much less of a worry if you have been swaddling that knee in cotton and wool for 45 years or so. 2)    Really, how many 55-year-olds are regularly setting personal bests? 3)    Regular access to free, legal, safe drugs.* 4)    You can seriously impress your doctor. 5)    And your friends and relatives. 6)    And yourself. This is my story. Before you go looking for inspiration on your own fitness journey, fair warning: you will not be wanting to find your inspiration the way I found mine. But I hope you will w...
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