Off the path

Executive: Sarasota Ballet Managing Director Mary Anne Servian. Servian ran a business brokerage firm in Sarasota in the 1990s with her late husband, Robert Servian. She was an executive with a software firm and a savings and loan institution in Pennsylvania before that. Servian served on the Sarasota City Commission from 2001 to 2007, and was mayor from 2005-2006. She's been with the ballet since 2010, and was named managing director in 2011.

Diversion: Walking/trail hiking. Servian takes at least 90-minute walks every weekday morning, going three to five miles. She sometimes walks eight to 10 miles on Saturdays or Sundays.

Old days: The daughter of a golf pro, Servian regularly ran in half-marathons, biked and was an eight handicap golfer when she lived in suburban Philadelphia. In March 1989 she slipped on black ice outside and suffered a spinal fracture. Servian had five back surgeries from 1989-1995. “An amazing doctor put me back together again,” says Servian. “But he told me my days of running, golfing and biking were over.”