This 88 year old bikes, rollerblades, teaches aerobics and organized a pickleball league. “Maybe you should try getting outdoors to do things, too.”
ByLeurene Hildenbrand credits the coronavirus pandemic for her improved pickleball stamina. “If we rally longer, we touch the ball less,” she says. At 88, Ms. Hildenbrand uses pickleball—a cross between tennis and ping pong—to keep fit and stay social.
A snowbird, she splits her time between Pinellas Park, Fla., and Hartville, Ohio, but has extended her Florida stay due to the pandemic. She typically plays pickup games of pickleball at a nearby indoor tennis court, but when it closed on April 15, she wasn’t about to let herself...
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