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Whatever your age, spice up your routines with variety, both to keep from getting bored and to avoid injury. "If you get tired of running, go swim," says Michael Dawdy, a trainer at the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center in Dallas. "If you get tired of swimming, get on the cycle." Change sports with the seasons--and make time to enjoy life. "When I turned 50, I made a list of 50 things that I wanted to accomplish," says Franzen, the former triathlete. "There were some sports things, like rowing and trying to snowboard. But there were other things, like...
...Swim, power walk, cycle, jog, kickbox, do aerobics or anything else that significantly increases your heart rate...
...Army nothing. Those who stay serve five years of active duty after graduation and three more in the Army Reserve. Like many other West Point athletes, Beyer had not grown up with visions of military glory. In fact, she had barely heard of West Point until its swim coach flew out to recruit her and offered a chance to compete in Division I, get out of Tucson, test-drive military life for a couple of years risk free. She did find things to love about the place. A natural color coder, she appreciated the daily structure that challenged cadets...
...returned for her final year with a new commitment. She signed up for LASIK eye surgery so she could qualify for aviation, even though the date fell during swimming season and she was team captain. It was the first time she had ever voluntarily missed a swim meet. She turned down an invitation from the swim-team coach to stay on an extra year as a graduate assistant. She's in a hurry now. She can't wait to get to Fort Rucker (or Mother Rucker, as it's known to cadets) in Alabama and start flying, even though...
...came from Newark, Calif., just east of San Francisco, as the son of Korean artists, to better himself and give back to his family's adopted country as a soldier and a leader. Tuscon native Kristen Beyer knew nothing about the army and entered West Point mainly to swim for its Division I team, but she stayed to pursue a new dream of flying Blackhawk helicopters...