Diane Clehane

Michael Shalhoub, Age: 59 Partner, Goldberg Segalla Shalhoub was on a ski trip in Canada when he first saw a game of curling on TV. “I was fascinated,” the lawyer remembers. When he got home to Eastchester, N.Y., he and his wife, Gail, joined the Ardsley Curling Club. He was in his mid-40s and reaching […]

Stephanie Scarlata, Age: 51 Executive Director, UBS Asset Management Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Scarlata was around horses but didn’t ride. “My grandfather had a farm and was a member of a hunt club in Altoona. My mother would go on fox hunts with him, but she discouraged me when I was young because of […]

SVP/DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT, HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS; PRESIDENT, GLEICHER DESIGN

Michel Cadieux, Age: 59 SVP, Human Resources, Itron Overweight and overworked, Cadieux got a wake-up call from his doctor during a physical in 2006, when his cholesterol was “off the charts.” At the time, the human resources executive was commuting from his home in Toronto to Austin, Texas, every week working on a corporate integration. […]

Mary Dewane, Age: 65 1Founder and General Manager, Benovia Winery When a recreational cycling trip brought Dewane, a former healthcare CEO, and her husband, Joe Anderson, to Sonoma County in Northern California for the first time, they fell in love with the area—and the sport. The couple bought a vineyard in the Russian River Valley […]

Jack Alexander, Age: 70 CEO, Jack Alexander LLC When Alexander left Oscar de la Renta in 1994 after nearly two decades as VP of public relations and special events, he found himself at loose ends. “I was trying to figure out what to do. I didn’t want to sit around watching TV in the afternoon,” […]

Not everyone can participate in an ultra-marathon after turning 40. But staying active is important and can lead to a sense of well-being beyond the physical. Here are seven people over the age of 40 who have found the balance between inertia and obsession.