Another year has come and gone.
Whenever I get to the end of the year, I love reminiscing about what happened over the past 12 months.
I often find myself saying, “That happened this year?”
My year started out with a story about Jane Martin, a 98-year-old woman who still works out several times a week at Williams Farm Recreation Center in Virginia Beach. She comes in, gets her workout done and is gone.
And she does it in style. Not in a sweat suit, but in a designer sweater and dress pants on most days.
“When I come here, I wear what I’m going to wear the rest of the day,” she told me. “It doesn’t matter because I don’t sweat.”
Her commitment is inspiring to others, including myself.
“You watch her walk in and the energy that she brings in makes people watch her and go, ‘Oh my God, this lady is still doing this.’ That means I can still do it,” said Tim Ray, a recreation specialist at Williams Farm Recreation Center. “But it’s great to see her still moving like that. You’d love to be at that age and be able to do the things that she does. And she still has it.”