2009 Huntsman Senior Games adds trap-shooting to the lineup

Mark Twain once said,

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The Huntsman World Senior Games began in 1987 with a few hundred athletes, both men and women, who competed in a handful of games. In 2008, over 9,600 athletes aged 50 and over  filled hotels in St. George, Utah, home to the games since their inception. In 2009, the games will include Shooting – Trap and Sporting Clays in the 26 “open” sports that will be part of this year’s games.  Cowboy Action Shooting has been a part of the games since 2004.

The games will last for 2 weeks and will begin on October 6 at Hansen Stadium on the Dixie State College campus.  For additional information on the Games or any of its events, visit the web at www.seniorgames.net or call the office at 800-562-1268.

Blogging meets the Utah outdoors

What do you get when you mix a group of women bloggers with an outdoor retreat where they can go fly-fishing, horseback riding, hiking or even take a train ride? If you were in Utah during July, you would have found this unlikely sounding combination at the first Annual Social Media Retreat hosted by April of Sweet Life in the Valley. April blogs about her sweet life in the Utah Valley with her three daughters.

Other participants in the Social Media Retreat who blogged about their experience, shared photos of the day and even posted video are:

Kami of NoBiggie.net (who describes herself as a 31-derful mother of two and wife to one)

Janet of Newspapergrl.com (an internet marketer and press release writer)

Amy of ProgressivePioneer.com (a stay at home mom in Salt Lake City)

Lady of Perpetual Chaos (she’ll only share her dog’s name, which is Dexter) of ladyofperpetualchaos.blogspot.com

The fact that these women bloggers who spend a lot of their time online and indoors got together for a girls day outdoors is encouraging, to say the least. Many critics of online social networking have groused that it’s taken the place of face-to-face relationships and these women have proven that theory wrong. It was online social networking through their various blogs that brought them all together and none of them had any trouble meeting and talking to their sisters face-to-face in the great outdoors. You go, girls!