Finally, at 49, Kristen Mosteller, of Redlands, joined the 40-year-old Lopers, the Inland area's oldest fitness group that friends had been touting since she was in high school.
A data analyst for Riverside County, she registered and paid the $100 registration fee at this past Sunday's opening day on the Loma Linda campus where the walking, running and marathon training club welcomed 320 members.