



En tiedä onko iän tuomaa, vai minkä takia auringonlaskut tuntuvat ilta toisensa jälkeen aina vain upeammilta. Aurinko kultaa maiseman ja muistot. Entäs kukkaniityn tuoksu ja maalaispeltomaiseman utuisuus - sen voi aistia ihan autosta käsin.

Ikä on todellakin vain numero. Olen harjoitellut jo parin vuoden ajan keskiviikkoisin veteraaniurheilijoiden kanssa. Keski-ikä on yli 70 vuotta, mutta jutut ja kujeilut aivan kuin heidän nuoruusvuosinaan. Siinä joukossa on rehtiä meininkiä ja oikeaa asennetta - sitä aitoa oikeaa vanhan ajan hyvää henkeä. Kunpa itsekin osaisin säilyttää pääni terävänä ja kehoni terveenä. Vaikka olen ylivoimaisesti nuorin ja ainoa nainen, tunnen kuuluvani joukkoon. Sain heiltä taannoin myös kovan tunnustuksen: Jenni on hyvä jätkä! Ilman kukkahattua, toistaiseksi.
How do you know, that you are getting older? When you start your mornings with newspaper (not virtual), with a couple cup of coffee and the morning show on the radio. And people use to call you girl, now you are lady. Still, I don't feel myself old and I do not have age crisis. But it feels weird and also sad to turn thirty. I don't get it, why does it matter so much to everyone? If you are an 30-year-old athlete, you are (too) old. But if you are an actor or an artist, you might be too young and you don't have enough experience. We are actually waiting the right age all the time. When is it? Why is it so hard to live for the moment, despite the age?
Let me tell you something. I'm in a better shape than ten years ago and I started my morings at the same way. Sometimes they called me a girl, sometimes a lady. The biggest difference for those days is what I think and how I act. What I see right and what for wrong. Years ago it didn't matter that much. The age is definitely only a number. When I was a little girl, I loved to pick up berrys and that's what delights me nowdays too. And I have trained over two years on every Wednesday with a group of gentlemen, age over 70. I am amazed what they do and how they think. They still got their youth and what comes to the humour, my stomach muscles got trained well. We do have a wonderful spirit together. I enjoy to be there a lot and I always learn something new, specially how I should take an attitude on athletics. And guess what they said a couple weeks ago: "Jenni, you are a good guy!" Yep. ;)
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