Name: Lindsay Russell
Address: Cambridge, MA
Birthday: August 25, 1927
Age: 67
Occupation: Engineer, semi-retired. I keep the office open for a few projects now & then. Am on MIT Faculty in minor role.
Education: MS in Elec. Engineering, MIT.
System: Two-week-old Mac 7100AV-80. Will soon retire the old IIci. They'll never beat the SE-30, though. It didn't have much, but willingly gave you all it had.
E-Mail Address: lindsayr@tiac.net
Family Life: Numerous grandnephews & grandnieces, all destined for MIT one day, I think.
Other obsessions: Music (folk, country-&-western, bluegrass). Mountain hiking.
Running History: After a decade of hiking in NH White Mountains, I took up running in addition when I was 50. (Let's abolish 'jogging' from the language - fast or slow; it doesn't matter - I say if one foot is off the turf part of the time, it's running). Shoe: Nike Aircushion at the moment. Anything resilient'll do. My feet like a soft landing. Replace shoes once a year. Have had one injury in past 18 years: a stress fracture of fibula. I am lucky; I run pretty much injury-free & pain-free.
Running Program: About 700-800 miles a year. I am up to 455 miles in '95, but the weekly pace will slow now that summer's here. I have hiked up nearby Mt. Washington three times in the past two weeks, and you have to give the old dogs a rest a couple of days after each such hike (each is 15 miles round-trip & 4200 vertical feet up & down). I enter only one race a year now: MIT's Community Service Race every spring - 4.0 miles. Most recent time was 31:11. I've been doing it every year and expect to keep it up as long as I can break under a 8-minute pace. When a lad in my fifties, I used to enter every 4M & 10K that came along, but not now, and have never done a marathon.
Final note: This may be of interest to all, I think. At every age we have all wondered, whimsically perhaps, "How long can I keep running? At what age does one have to stop? And...what're the symptoms that let you know the 'Statute' is running out?"
I can tell you this: it's still as much fun as ever when you're as close to 70 as I am. BTW, my criterion for determining a true runner isn't speed, mileage, races run, etc. It's whether you still get antsy when deprived (weather, flu, etc.). If multiple annual marathons, medals won and the like are the strong whiskey of youthful running, then running at my age is more the mellow, fine wine that comes nearer the end of the meal. Equally enjoyable. (Dr. Sheehan would have liked that one.)
I learned about DRS from asking "WebCrawler" (on WWW) for running-related URL's.
If all Deads are growing older, and we are, we'll soon have to have an over-xx-year-old group with its own name analagous to "Clydesdale" for those of...uh...ample proportions. There'll be that many of us older Deads in the course of time. Be thinking of what 'xx' ought to be and of what we should call ourselves. My best to all.
Lindsay