Having a healthy body weight doesn’t guarantee wellness any more than…

Sand Hill Crane stretching leg
Being flexible is good, especially in nature

 

The challenge with wellness is that the external signs are nearly impossible to hide. This adds even more stress to an already stressful situation, no?

Having a healthy body weight doesn’t guarantee wellness any more than a healthy bank account can guarantee happiness.

Money can’t buy us love, but it sure takes care of a lot of ills.

Reasonable BMI can’t guarantee wellness, but it sure takes care of a lot of ills.

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Being fit and committed to staying that way

Lap pool at The Breakers at sunrise
Pre-sunrise walk about The Breakers, feeling a bit jealous of this man

 

The Breakers' community pool just before sunrise
The Breakers’ lap pool must surely have looked like this before the swimmer began

 

Lap pool at The Breakers at sunrise
Sunrise 7:18am, October 2013

 

Being fit and committed to staying that way, especially in midlife, is a bit like hitting the lottery – extraordinary wealth.

Health is wealth.

Can I get an amen?

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Health is wealth and is relatively invisible, until it is not

jeff noel Masters runner in Coralville, Iowa
Ran 30 minutes at dawn before a long day in the classroom

 

At the dinner table, two CEO’s were checking their resting heart using an iPhone app. One clocked 83, the other 53.

Both CEO’s know exercise not only improves health metrics, but as a side benefit, exercise simply makes you feel better, increases energy, reduces stress, improves sleep patterns, and on and on.

One exercises. One does not.

Did you know that thirty beats per minute difference equals an extra 43, 200 beats per day?

This also equates to 15.8 million extra beats each year.

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Gets old hearing about all the running and stuff doesn’t it?

jeff noel on his daily starting line
This is where I start from (my mailbox is to the right just out of sight

 

Gets old hearing about all the running and stuff doesn’t it?

What never gets old is how well we feel as we get old.

Because we exercise.

Regularly.

Forever.

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PS. This run started way too late. See the tree shadows? Way too late. If the sun is up it’s late already.