Surf and Stoke

I surfed Venice this morning for 2 hours with my friend from high school, Earl Richmond, who is one of the more diesel 42 year old guys I know.  He looks like a white Jerry Rice at 42 years old.  His fitness is purely functional, he does no lifting, no stretching, no classes, no training, but exercises 3 hours on a typical day. At the time of publication, he told me that he is running about 3 miles a day to stay loose, climbing, hiking, and surfing in a river near his home in Buena Vista. Exercise has always been a huge part of his life and the shape he keeps himself in allows him to enjoy any activity presented to him, whether it be a game of frisbee golf, a multi pitch rock climb, or just a good old fashioned surf in some waist high clean peelers in Venice on a sunny summer day. Of note, there was what appeared to be a group of surfing Hasidic Rabbis but on closer inspection it was a group of advertising and design types out for a Saturday morning surf and their stoke was fantastic...great to see.