On the swimming end, Cable said, “I’ve had many people come and say, Oh my God - that was the encouragement that I needed to make the decision to get rid of the fat, to lower the blood pressure, to reduce the weight. He paraphrases Mister Rogers, noting “There are those that you have a positive influence on that you know and then there are those that you have a positive influence on that you will never know.” “The norm was 42 minutes so that has progressed now to 50.”īut it’s not about how many or the time it takes, according to Cable, who said it’s the health benefits for sure, but helping others, too. He keeps track of the miles and knows “back in the day, my best was 38 minutes,” he said of his time to do a mile. When traveling, Cable scouts for a pool, a priority. Cable, second from left, talks with youth employees with an Edison connection, including, from left, Ian McBane, Colleen Miles, Grayce Andreozzi, Matthew Whitehill and Cheyanne Coil.
In warm months, around Memorial Day through the end of September, Cable generally is able to swim at Austin Lake.īill Cable’s longtime swimming regime for a healthy lifestlye and never-give-up attitude are what he hopes offers a live-by-example testimony. When the later closed, the Calcutta YMCA became the place to swim the 76 laps that was his goal. In cold months, Cable swims indoors in pools - in the past it was Stanton’s pool and in the pool at the municipal building at Stratton. His Edison teaching spot moved from Knoxville Elementary to Stanton, “which just so happened to have this thing called a pool,” he said, figuring “God was directing me.”Ĭable said that after the doctor’s consult, “That’s when I started seriously into swimming five days a week, and that five days a week was rain, snow, shine, and the only time I would come out and not swim was during lightning,” he said. So the “life” choice translated into through-the-years pool and lake swimming, an exercise that seemed like a no-brainer, given he’d taken and given swimming lessons, had been a lifeguard, was a water safety instructor certified through the American Red Cross and was, well, around water. Bill Cable and his wife, Marsha, have been married 51 years and are retired educators and proprietors of Austin Lake, RV Park and Cabins.
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