Active for Life: Peggy Prowe is Forever Pedaling
It’s well known in Northfield that Peggy Prowe is a champion of bicyclists’ rights—she has a bridge named after her to prove it.
And it’s no secret that the intrepid 72-year-old cyclist and founder of the Northfield Senior Center's’ Northfield Pedalers bike club is a four-season sportswoman—she’s been sighted navigating our snow packed streets on two wheels even in the deadest of winter.
“I don’t ride when it’s slippery, but I need to get my groceries and get to the Senior Center to swim and stuff on the bike,” Prowe says. “Why get the car out? The bike uses calories, not gas, and I can have another cookie.”
Less well-known might be that Prowe—unlike some newcomers to the NSC who may be initiating or reviving their interest in active pursuits—has been a teacher of indoor and outdoor activities and organized sports and an avid promoter of safe and accessible facilities for these in and around Northfield.
“I really like to play, and I enjoy helping lots of people to play,” says Prowe, who brought her Master's degree in physical education to Carleton College in 1966, where she taught archery and aquatics, and coached the field hockey and synchronized swim teams. In addition to traveling with the teams, Prowe also found time to conduct Carleton student canoe trips on the St. Croix River.
The Topeka, KS native had fallen in love with northern Minnesota culture during nearly 10 years of taking Kansas high school girls on canoe trips to the Boundary Waters, sponsored by Voyageur Trails and Outward Bound.
In 1968, she married fellow Carleton faculty member Diethelm Prowe, who taught modern European history at Carleton. In addition to raising two children together, the two share an active lifestyle, and have travelled extensively for both work and play.
“We swim and bicycle in whatever city we’re in,” says Prowe.
It was on sabbatical in Munich, Germany that Prowe hit upon a boon to Northfield seniors swimmers.
Prowe was on the planning committee for the NSC swimming pool back in the late 1970s. After visiting a facility in Munich where seniors could swim in a superheated pool, Prowe proposed that a similar facility be built here. At the present facility on Jefferson Road, seniors now enjoy swimming and water aerobics in easy-on-the joints warm water.
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Prowe visits her son Derek's family in Minneapolis once or twice weekly; very often she meets daughter-in-law Julie and two small granddaughters for lunch after a cruise of the Grand Rounds—a 20-mile bike trail around the city. Once an avid gardener,
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