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Marina Cornwall, World Champion Powerlifter at 60
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For 60-year-old World, European and British Masters Champion Powerlifter Marina Cornwall, it was a TV game show that changed the course of her life,
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GoPro Ironman World Championships 2014
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The Ironman World Championships 2014 have taken place this month (12th Oct) in Kona, Hawaii. The race has a professional category and then the other, non-professionals are split into age group categories. The age groups go in 5 year bands, from 18-24-y-o (OK, that's a 7 year band) all the way up to an 80+ category, although there were no athletes in this category this year.
To start the season
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The seasons are changing and snow rather than sun will be the dominant weather condition, here is a story from Ski Utah about a 96-year-old who can't stop skiing, can't see why he should and can see all the benefits of staying in shape to be able to.
Charles Eugster - The World's Fittest Nonagenarian
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SGSC's first encounter with Charles Eugster was on a YouTube video of a Ted Talk he gave. Quite remarkably, he was expressing the very ideas about ageing that we hold at SGSC.
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Jacinto at 73
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Okay, so here's another Cross-fitter - 73 years old and proving once again that age is not a limiting factor if you have the determination to work at your fitness.
Journalist Joins Gym
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Journalist Suzanne Moore, now in her mid-fifties and never previously one to trumpet the virtues of exercise, has written a piece for the Guardian recounting her decision to "take herself in hand" and halt the gradual slide into middle-aged ill-health and decrepitude (our word).