ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Soon it will be time for the Bay area to say goodbye to seasonal resident friends.<\/p>\n
We are talking about snowbirds who will travel back to their lives back north.<\/p>\n
A part-time Floridian, Aloysius Browne, spends his time in the Sunshine State showing how it’s never too late to stay active.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Aloysius Browne is part of the St. Petersburg Bicycle Club
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At 96 years old, Browne rides three times a week with the group during his stays in Florida\u00a0
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Browne recently took his last bike ride in Ft. De Soto before returning up north to Buffalo for the summer<\/p>\n
Browne is gearing up for one last morning bike ride. At 96 years old, he has a lot of stories to tell, like where he got his inspiration.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not too often you have a younger brother you look up to. And that’s my brother Tom,” Browne said. “Before I started coming down here, there were three or four of us…we\u2019d say let’s ride down to Florida. Down to Gulfport. My wife couldn’t let me then. Not with six kids at home. But they did and that’s where I got the inspiration from a younger brother.”<\/p>\n
He eventually got\u00a0to Florida from upstate New York.<\/p>\n
And he was off to the races.<\/p>\n
During his time in Florida during the winter, he rides three times a week with the St. Petersburg Bicycle Club.<\/p>\n
Browne said he wasn’t always a biker.<\/p>\n
“Prior to this, I was a jogger,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know\u2026like a plow horse.”<\/p>\n
Technically, he has only been riding for about a third of his life. But his cycling friends say he is even more exceptional than one in a million.<\/p>\n
Diana Moore is also part of the St. Petersburg Bicycle Club.<\/p>\n
“You just don’t see somebody at 96 years old with the strength, the agility, everything that he has to keep going,\u201d Moore said. \u201cLike I said, last week he rode 143 miles on his bike.”<\/p>\n
He has also recently competed in national races and has stories to tell about that.<\/p>\n
“In 2025 and 2023, thank God I did good in them, but when you get to my age group there’s not a lot of guys in it,” he said.<\/p>\n
His co-riders say it’s his positive outlook that makes him spin.<\/p>\n
“It’s the people you ride with really,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the whole secret part of my success…well, I am going to say it’s a journey. And you don’t do it without the bunch of people that I’m riding with.<\/p>\n
I just tell them… it’s just a number. That’s all it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Soon it will be time for the Bay area to say goodbye to seasonal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3076,274,25743,28,1548,115,772,596,25744,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-226102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-good-news","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-feel-good-friday","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-good-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-on-air-ticker-article","15":"tag-pinellas-county","16":"tag-roy-de-jesus","17":"tag-st-pete","18":"tag-st-pete-headlines","19":"tag-st-pete-news","20":"tag-st-petersburg","21":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","22":"tag-st-petersburg-news","23":"tag-tampa","24":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}