CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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Right | Drs. Brad and Holly Richter are husband and wife physicians and athletes. The Richters have been running and biking together ever since a friend introduced them at the University of North Carolina. Below | Twice a week, you can catch Dr. Stuart Squires, right, shooting hoops at HealthPlex. Below | Dr. Victor Kubit catches some waves when he’s not working as an anesthesiologist. are turning an old school bus into a climbing gym. It may look like a bus on the outside but inside, the hand grips and padding are identical to equipment found on most rock-climbing walls. This fall, the doctors plan to take the rolling rock wall to local schools so children can learn more about physical fitness. The bus will also include an environmental lesson – Bellian retrofitted the bus so it can run on biodiesel. Wallin, an anesthesiologist who wants to live to 100, often extols the virtues of exercise, and he’s sincere about leading by example. “It amazes me how many physicians, who know you have to be healthy to live a long life, don’t exercise,” Wallin said. “They smoke, drink and don’t eat well. But there are a lot in Fayetteville who do work out. There are quite a few here who are health conscious and are active.” 44 | Oct • Nov 2008 I ski, you ski … I biked, I slacklined, but drew the line at water skiing with Dr. Victor Kubit. This is no leisurely pursuit but a hardcore circuit. On a warm evening after work, we rode out to one of the seven lakes in Carolina Lakes in Kubit’s 330-horsepower boat with his youngest son Zach and a friend, Jimmy Coppedge. Kubit could hardly wait to hop in the water. He jumped in, flashed a quick thumbs-up and we were off, Coppedge at the wheel. When his two sons began competing in ski tournaments, Kubit decided to give it a try, too. He recently placed sixth in his age category at a state competition. Scoring is based on the number of balls a skier successfully avoids using as little rope as possible. As the sun dipped low, Kubit zipped through a six-ball course at 34 miles per