![]() ![]() This coming Wednesday at the 2023 National Senior Games in Pittsburgh - where he’ll compete Tuesday in the pole vault and Friday in the 100-meter backstroke - he’ll be honored at a gala luncheon as a “Humana Game Changer.” Senior Track and Field Indoor Championships in Louisville, he won the pole vault competition. Five years ago, he won a gold medal in the pole vault for his age group (85 to 89) at the World Master Track and Field Championship in Malaga, Spain. At age 90, Arledge’s weight is back down and the six different pills he once took daily are down to two, both supplements. So now – 25 years past that pledge – how has he done? ![]() And that’s when I vowed I was going to get back in shape and be a competitive pole vaulter again.” “His upper body strength just wasn’t there,” Gail Arledge, Bob’s wife of 65 years, said as she sat across from him in their home at Otterbein Lebanon SeniorLife Community the other day.Īrledge agreed: “At the time, I was just so heavy. “I tried, but I couldn’t do it,” Arledge recalled. ![]()
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