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Subject: [Leica] An 80th birthday party! :-)
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:24:50 +0100
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"TED GRANT" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8065370.stm<<<<
> Thank you I shall begin practising shortly. Although today to the cheering 
> guests, grandsons, our sons and daughters and a gathering of friends I did 
> 80 sit-ups, one for each year! :-)

Marvellous stuff 80 on 80th, I'm both impressed and ashamed. Impressed by 
you and ashamed of how badly I've let myself go. With 22 years to go to my 
own 80th, I'll have to get working on my own health & fitness again. As an 
ex rugby, soccer & GAA player, ex triathlete, ex marathon runner, and 
someone who used to run up every morning before breakfast to the summit of 
the 600ft hill beside my sea level house with another run in the evening, 
I've let myself go completely. A combination of damaging my knee playing 
soccer with my youngest son, and an interest in photography keeps me too 
much in front of the pc these days.

I'll have to get out walking (at least) again. It's now 22 years since I won 
the annual race up and down Ireland's highest mountain - Carrauntoohil - and 
my body is reduced to living on memories of hard training! Mind you next 
week I'm in Bordeaux giving my stomach a good work out..... :-)

Douglas
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland 



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