Each day it’s the same two choices

Toddler chalk art on sidewalk
Photo from three days ago. As kids, walking took too long, so we ran.

 

Each day it’s the same two choices.

  1. Step forward with a healthy conviction about our personal responsibility for being active, eating well, and resting well.
  2. Step back into the (delusional) safety of our comfort zone of apathy, indifference, and excuses.

It really is this simple.

Either choice is sustainable for a lifetime.

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Did Isaac Newton exercise?

Map My Run screen shot
Yesterday’s run included 10 miles of negative splits before backing off the pace.

 

What if impossible really is nothing?

Isaac Newton is remembered for saying the obvious:

A body at rest tends to stay at rest. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Back to back excellent interval workouts had me wanting feeling a change was necessary yesterday.

Some LSD.

Some long, slow, distance.

Maybe a 10-11 miler.

A different turn about four miles in would provide a route not run before. How far would it be?

It turned out to be 16.1 miles.

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So now the excuse becomes…

Epcot's Spaceship Earth and Monorail Yellow
Epcot’s Spaceship Earth and Monorail Yellow

 

Walking is great exercise for people who don’t like to run, are uncomfortable going to a gym, or both.

Walking is easy. The human body is built for it. Lots of it.

So now is the excuse, “But i don’t like walking?”

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On paper his strategy was a mistake

Windermere 2015 5k results
Yesterday’s 5k results for 50-59 age group.

 

At 55 he wondered if he could run as fast or maybe even faster than when he was 45.

Like a zealot, and although he had never done this, he ran the entire course as a warmup prior to the race.

He should have saved his energy. Conserved his resources for the big event.

His goal was to run the 22:10 he ran 10 years prior. His actual result was 21:50.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

We know this.

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Everyone should win this award

Disney management Speakers

 

(photo: Common Sense Media announces the Common Sense Seal.)

This should not be an elusive award for anyone.

Tell us again how much you believe in common sense.

Pop quiz: How long have your current exercise efforts/habits been in place?

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