I do have non-athletic friends, Oak. It's been an effort for me to maintain the friendships, but I've known them for 25 years. One thing that's different for me now, as opposed to when I was younger, is that I am not friends with people I work with. I used to socialize a lot with other teachers, but as the years went by, that got less and less. There is one woman from my old school that I am in contact with and that I see a few times a year. The others are just Facebook friends now! She actually is pretty active, and we usually go on local hikes or go out to dinner.
I guess I never realized what a sub culture there is in the place I live. I was sort of aware of a large number of older women in West Concord village, when I went to the natural foods store (the place you went to), but I didn't realize they all lived around there. Since I consciously planned not to buy a condo in an over 55 place, it seems like that happened despite my decision. We did look at a place in a huge complex that was very diverse in terms of age, etc., but it needed a ton of work and did have a more apartment like feel. And that has a rep as the place where all of the divorced men go.