a The walker’s way fo fitness

Do you ever come back from jogging bored with it all and feeling all you have accomplished is jiggled yourself around a bit? Or do you think you

pleasure of it, for becoming fit and also for competitions.

The short ex-Irishman, a machinist by trade, does not look his age. In fact, the first time he says 62 you think you have heard wrong and he must have said 52. Many

would like to be fit but °"y birds. or late home-

> comers on the North Shore

running? the streets anywhere before

the crack of dawn, or up at

Well, if so, then perhaps the pool doing his 64 laps 62-year-old Dave Mc- before breakfast.

Cormick of North Van- In fact, since he started

couver can convince you to try walking.

Not just a stroll around the block checking to see who is growing what, or who hasn't bothered raking their leaves yet, but a spirited walk with a three-fold purpose.

Dave runs (or walks?) the North Shore Walking Club, something he started back in the winter of "78. His aim is to see more people taking up walking for the sheer

walking in lieu of his boxing days and his running, he claims he has never felt better, nor been in better condition. And looking at him, you sure can’t argue the point.

Dave can rhyme off statistics about the benefits of walking over running or virtually any other physical act and make it convincing.

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