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Yesterday, such a trivial photo on such a trivial morning…

Note: The remaining four posts today will be the ones originally written 100 days ago. And of course the posts written yesterday, today, and the days to come will involve Cooper and this experience.

 

iPhone stopwatch for runners
Yesterday, such a trivial photo on such a trivial morning…

 

LSD for 53 minutes yesterday, knowing two things:

  1. Leaving tomorrow for a five-day Winnipeg trip.
  2. The day after returning is the annual tradition of the very first 5k ever.

This morning, a mile time trial to run sub six without keeling over. This will be a small sign of decent (but not excellent) readiness.

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No one knows this but it’s as true as gravity

Light blue antique VW Bug near Disney World

 

(photo: A car, if it stays healthy long enough, becomes an antique)

No one knows this but it’s as true as gravity.

Many do not exercise, not because they do not like exercise (though that’s the excuse) or because they are too busy (another great excuse), but because they are afraid of getting well and then having to maintain it for the rest of their lives.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. – Audre Lorde

A lifetime commitment to wellness means our foundational habits have to change.

We have to change.

For good.

Yuck.

Right?

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He was officially deceased

Coded as dead but alive to tell his story
Jim Brennan at Gold’s Gym Orlando (April 3, 2014 – last night)

 

Jim almost died. Well, he actually was dead for three minutes, but was miraculously revived.

Told him long ago that he is inspiring – we’ve been Gold’s Gym Orlando members for years.

What felt like only a month has been 18. He was in a coma for eight weeks and in a hospital for eight months.

Recovering.

A story that can not be told in this post at this time.

A brutal ordeal by any measure.

And insanely lucky to be alive.

And the doctors told him the only reason he didn’t die sooner was because he biked and swam, even while being 100+ pounds overweight.

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Quite literally it’s death

Mid Life Celebration's key mantra
Live like you mean it!

 

April Fools day comes and goes.

So do our intentions to do one or both of these:

  1. Get healthy
  2. Stay healthy

But this isn’t a joke or a gag.

Quite literally it’s death.

Slow and steady.

In either direction it’s slow and steady isn’t it?

Decline or progress.

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April Fools #2

Loose Jeep tire rolling down highway
This was from yesterday’s April Fool’s Day run – a Jeep tire rolling by

 

Three wheeled Jeep
He is so lucky his Jeep did not roll or injure others

 

April Fools.

Yesterday’s ‘giving up running’ announcement was an April Fool’s joke.

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PS. Couldn’t get the camera ready quickly enough. Saw it coming from 400 meters away and it rolled past for another 400.