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Have you had your wellness 9/11 yet?

eating habits
What we eat, how much we eat, and when we eat makes life-altering differences

September 11, 2001…. everyone remembers where they were when they heard the shocking, devastating news.

Sooner or later, we’ll get the shocking, devastating wellness equivalent. I remember it like it was yesterday… at age 39. That was 14 years ago.

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Should we work hard to keep the bar low?

Go Team USA
Go Team USA

Should we work hard to keep the bar low? For some, it’s simply a daily par for the course. For others, it’s almost excruciating to slow the pace.

Yesterday I watched the Visa Grand Prix Diamond League Track and Field meet on NBC. David Rudisha ran the fastest 800 ever on American soil. He happens to own the world record as well.

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PS. Olympic fever is contagious.

What a comeback less than 24 hours later

slow steady progress
Slow and steady progress can take years… we must decide if the price is worth it.

What a comeback less than 24 hours later. Yesterday, on my 53rd birthday, decided in the moment to do a mile-run time trial. One mile warm up, the second mile as fast as I could go, turn around and jog two miles back home.

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Insight: Doing well is it’s own reward and motivates us to not quit.

Here’s the number one challenge with staying healthy

exercise boredom
do birds ever get bored with flying? who wouldn't love to be able to fly?

Here’s the number one challenge with staying healthy. Boredom (injury is number two). Yesterday was the last day of  5th grade for our son. Picked him up and we drove to Gold’s Gym. Been going there about four years.

Leaving, I told Chapin, “I really didn’t feel like working out today. And half way through, I didn’t feel like finishing. I still had 15 minutes left, but (after 55 minutes) decided enough was enough.”

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What’s the buzz at Lane 8?

patience
just wasn't ready for this one, even though six months ago it seemed possible

What’s the buzz at Lane 8? Last week had the first track workout in three years. And the first “speed work” in the same three years. Sure, the times were slow, but compared to no speed work, it’s causing a buzz around here.

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