<\/a>These older hikers in England’s Lake District aren’t about to hang up their boots. (photo touristnetuk.com)<\/p><\/div>\r\n
Many older folks are wrongly convinced their need to walk diminishes with age, a survey conducted by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness reports. Many seniors are also apt to exaggerate the dangers of walking and their inability to walk.<\/p>\r\n
Walking is a way for seniors to stay out in the world. To best resist the many paralyzing effects old age, seniors would be wise to combine the body, the mind and the heart\u2014keeping all vigorous by continuing to walk, to learn, and to love.<\/p>\r\n
Almost anyone at any age can walk\u2014and will feel better for it. At God’s request, Abraham began walking among his people, among the lovely oak grove of Mamre, and across the desert plains of the Holy Land. Abraham, who did not receive God’s call to walk until he was 99, lived to the ripe old age of 175.<\/p>\r\n
Walk until you’re 99\u2014or older!<\/p>\r\n
Footnotes<\/strong><\/p>\r\n* Who are the oldest walkers you know? Why do they walk? What puts a spring in their step?<\/p>\r\n
* Early sport-walker Edward Payson, at 22 years of age, caught the nation’s attention when he race-walked from Boston to Washington, D.C. to the presidential inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. More remarkably, he was still walking fast some 50 years later; when he was 71, he walked from New York to San Francisco in 105 days.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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