Lifetime exercise seems limited to people who truly love exercise

lake Butler Blvd in Windermere, Florida
Sharp’s Peacock Farm

 

Map My Run near Disney World
Yesterday’s run through Windermere.

 

Lifetime exercise seems limited to people who truly love exercise.

Newsflash, it’s not the magic that makes it work, it’s the hard work that makes it magic.

The refusal to quit is the secret sauce that no one talks about.

Only running three days a week as a retiree. This past week was astonishing with runs of 14, 13.1 and 10 miles.

Hidden in these numbers is the lifetime longest and second longest runs ever, in 55 years.

How is that possible?

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Time well spent by not exercising.

Massive 3,000 person conference kickoff
Opening session kickoff yesterday with nearly 3,000.

 

Good thing yesterday was an active rest day because the whole day was spent attending day one of a big conference near Walt Disney World.

Spontaneously changed plans and began the day as an uninvited Guest. That quickly changed when i simply asked for permission. It was instantly granted.

And what was initially going to be a half day time investment became a full day.

Time well spent by not exercising.

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Friday the 13th is now the luckiest day of the whole year

Map My Run screen shot
Yesterday’s Friday the 13th “faster pace” run.

 

What if someone was bold enough to proclaim that Friday the 13th is no longer bad luck? In fact, they’d even go as far as saying Friday the 13th is the luckiest day of the whole year.

Wanted to run much farther than five miles yesterday (Friday, February 13, 2015).

A busy morning schedule made compromise the only option. Five miles no longer feels like a serious run – too short, but at least it was a five-miler that felt valuable.

(Photo above: After 1st warmup mile, the next four miles are 8min/mile or quicker, without too much effort.)

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Prior to retirement, five miles was always considered an amazing run.

Inspiration is an inside job

Map My Run screen shot
What are our limits? Yesterday was just an ordinary day.

 

We all have the possibility to think deep, aspirational thoughts yet we often allow the busy-ness of our life to be a crutch to perpetually put it off.

Do we deserve to treat ourselves like this?

Pfft.

Seriously.

Ran the second longest run ever, 11 miles, yesterday.

The longest run was in 1982, as a Walt Disney World College Program Cast Member – from Disney University to Snow White Campground.

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Do you consider your body a temple?

Orange County Convention Center
Orange County Convention Center along yesterday’s running route.

 

Do you consider your body a temple?

 

Silently ask yourself:

  1. My body is a temple housing everything keeping me alive.
  2. My body is an abandoned warehouse, housing long forgotten memories of my youth.

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