Age: 62

Profession: Television news reporter, writer

Height: 5-feet-3

Weight: 119 pounds

Workout habits: "Racewalk three times a week. Three other days, run from my house to my gym, In Shape, near the Kahala Mall. At In Shape, do exercises my personal trainer, Christy Boyea, changes for me every two or three months. It is good to 'shock' the body with different exercises. If you do the same exercises, week after week, your body adapts to them and will not see dramatic results. My exercises are with light hand weights (no more than 5 pounds), elastic tubing and a stability ball. Sometimes I do them at home.

"The stability ball, hand weights and tubing make for a very inexpensive home gym. Also, my home gym is not ugly or space consuming. I can stow away this equipment in a tiny space. Stability ball exercises might look goofy but they are fun and the exercises challenge many different muscles of the body at the same time."

When and why I started working out: "About 40 years ago, when I was attending Columbia University in New York City. I bought a book and began to do the Air Force exercises in the living room of my brownstone. I was feeling fat and sluggish from hibernating inside during the winter and hoped to regain my energy. Since then, I have tried all kinds of sports and exercises hoping for the same result: energy and a body that will be fully functional until I die."

My good foods/bad foods: "Good foods: vegetarian diet that includes fish and dairy products but no fowl or meat. Eating a big breakfast every morning and taking my lunch to work. Bad foods: homemade cookies given to me as omiyagi almost every week by my friend, the fabulous home baker, Jean Bart. The cookies are good, but I suffer from cookie abuse, which means the minute I eat one cookie, I am a goner. Also, my husband Bob Jones' nightly home-cooked dinners. Irresistible. I am a Bob Jones dinner abuser, often eating seconds and thirds."

My biggest motivator: "The desire to be physically strong and mentally calm."

What saves my sanity: "Knowing if I have arisen early each morning and done a little exercise, then, even if I ruin the rest of the day, I have done at least one thing right."

My next challenge: "Writing another book. And going on a kayak expedition through Ha Long Bay, south of Hanoi, on which my friends and I will get lost in the karst labyrinth, befriend the Vietnamese fisherfolk and sleep under the stars on the peaceful inlets of the bay. This trip has been in my mind for a long time. Soon, it will fall into place."