Baltimore County, MD Time of Your LIfe, 6 Jul 2016

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From YouTube: A Day Of Fun For All To Enjoy - July, August 2016

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Join Manny Eisner, a Pikesville Senior Center member, as he discusses a day of fun.

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Welcome back to the time of your life., I'm your host, ethel rasmussen., we're fortunate to have manny eisner on the show.

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Who is a member of the pikesville senior center as a participant in the last year's run-walk.

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manny,? Thank you for being on the show today.

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It's my pleasure.

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As you know,, this show focuses on the department of aging's get ready!, get set! get fit! 5k run-walk 1 mile walk.

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As a participant of the run-walk last year,, can you share your experience at this fun event?.

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Yeah,, it was a very fun event.

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I think there was a lot of energy there,. There was people there from all ages, --.

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Not only seniors, but there were youngsters there, children;.

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There were handouts, things to experience and we had a good time.

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It was very festive,, very festive,, yeah.

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Now I hear last year that you placed third in your age, bracket.

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But you're not a runner,. So what was your secret?.

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Well,, I don't really have a secret.

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and thank goodness,. First of all,, we run in age groups.

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So, that I'm in my own age group.

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And you don't know who you're going to compete: against, so,, it's really--.

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It's just doing something that you really love to do.

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And you try to do it as long as you can.

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You don't know who else is in the race, but,.

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It just turned out that way that there were slower runners than I was walking.

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Although when I did run, many, many years ago,, when I did run,.

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I actually walked at that time faster than I ever ran. So...

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How about that? you never know.!

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I understand that you are a long-time runner..

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Can you talk about your transition from running to race-walking?.

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-Yeah, I ran,, I guess I was running when I was in my thirties and forties.

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In my mid-forties I had trouble with my hips and knees.

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And that comes about from pounding --.

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The body pounding on the ground,, the pavement.

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And we had a member of our club who introduced me to race-walking.

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And we were very lucky in new jersey.

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We had a big race-walking contingent.

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And we had four race-walkers.

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Who were actually--, who actually competed in the olympics.

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The olympics has a-- it's an official olympics event.

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There's a 10k and there's a 50k.

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And so he brought me over to his home court, you know,.

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And taught me, took me out and took me race-walking., and I started doing that slowly;. It took a long time.

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It's much different than running.

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running. You cover a lot of your distance in the air.

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With race-walking, you've always got to be in contact with the ground.

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So, there's a lot of technique involved.

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and it's worked out for me.

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I have, of course,, like everybody,, pains from time to time,.

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But if you kind of be gentle with yourself,, you can make the sport last.

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But any sport that you push yourself to the limit, you're going to have injuries.

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That's true., thank you for being on the show today and sharing your experience with fitness., and I will look forward to seeing you at the get ready! get set! get fit! run-walk.

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That's great.. I think people should come down who don't even intend to run.

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Or compete in that race.

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There is exercise,, there is food to eat,.

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There is,, like I, said, before, giveaways, and they can enjoy themselves,.

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Especially if it's a nice day., it's good to come out and see your peers.

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And know that they're active.

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they're still active, and you can be too.

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That's a great point. thank you for wrapping up with that.

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we're going to take a short break and when we return, we'll conclude today's show with travel, senior box office,.

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And what's happening at your local senior center.

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