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<\/a><\/p>\nMark says, \u201cI stay active because it relieves stress. \u201cIt\u2019s the best thing men can do for themselves \u2013 run, play sports, keep moving. Be honest with yourself. You know when you are getting stressed out.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Mark stress was building as he took his business from a windshield repair shop in his garage to ABC Auto Glass, a regional enterprise with three locations that he turned into a thriving a Glass Doctor franchise some 11 years ago. \u201cI finally realized you cannot become a prisoner of your business. You worry about everything and it takes a toll in fatigue and loss of sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a decision to cut back my business and spend more time with my family. Once you start raising kids you soon recognize you need to take care of yourself so you can be around to take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point in my life I feel like I\u2019m having a second childhood and this one is a lot more fun,\u201d he adds. We do a lot of outdoor activities as a family \u2013 we run and we hike a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a child Mark spent summers in Mokelumne Hill with his grandparents George and Antonette Borchin. \u201cMy granddad worked me hard,\u201d Mark smiles. \u201cI was the city kid coming from Sacramento to the country and he definitely put me to work. I learned a lot for sure \u2013 a great work ethic– but there wasn\u2019t much time for play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark and his wife Eva are now raising the fourth generation of Borchin kids in his grandparents\u2019 home. They moved there permanently from Sacramento in 1997. Olivia,19; Lucas, 16 and Katarina, 14, all excel at Cross Country, with their dad often running along with them as they train. <\/p>\n
\u201cI run along with them,\u201d Mark says. \u201cI try to keep up but they just keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
His advice for other men is \u201cto find something you love to do and keep doing it. I\u2019ve been playing basketball with the same group of guys once a week for years. Sure it\u2019s great exercise \u2013 but the camaraderie is just as important. We challenge each other to be our best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark joins three other local men \u2013 Bret Hart High School Coach Casey Kester, Calaveras High School Coach Jason Weatherby and veteran firefighter and chaplain Dick Brown \u2013 as spokesmen for the \u201cTackle Your Health\u201d campaign. They will be speaking out in local media advertisements throughout Men\u2019s Health Month in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mokelumne Hill, CA…Mark Borchin of Mokelumne Hill is the picture of health \u2013 blessed with low blood pressure and high metabolism. To keep it that way he is an active runner, plays basketball every week and hikes with his wife. But, he is always aware that stress looms as a big health threat. Mark is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,33,4,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertising","category-featured","category-health-fitness","category-life-style","category-news","category-san-andreas","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/mtmctacklemark.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}