Hope it never happens again

eyeball cartoon
Uh-oh.

 

Hate to admit it.

A second consecutive week with only one day (instead of three) of exercise.

This comes on the heels of a 14-day stretch of zero biking or gym.

It happens.

Hope it never happens again.

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Ask yourself, “Is it worth defending?”

filet mignon
Dinner the night before the flight…coffee infused filet mignon and baked potato with butter. i forgot to order broccoli.

 

Stopped at the gym on the drive home from the airport yesterday.

Why?

Because it’s worth defending.

What?

My health.

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Thank goodness for time to decompress

Runner pain point
For posterity, yesterday’s debilitating pain point location.

 

Yesterday’s slow three mile jog to the High School to pick up my bicycle (from the night before) resulted in a flare up of the right calf pain from three days ago.

Was so frustrated in the moment, i was going to rearrange the whole day to accommodate storming into my Podiatrists office and demand answers – potentially firing him.

There is no justifiable reason for such a sharp pain to continue after i have repeatedly (over the years) shared my concerns and we have repeatedly run tests to find the cause. The end result is always, “Keep doing what you’re doing, everything looks fine.”

Yesterday’s pain (and Wednesday’s pain) was so severe i stopped jogging to walk the last half mile to school. The walking was painful too, like a major “charlie horse“.

Sharp pain simply in walking.

Come on.

There has to be a reason.

 

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Literally shut out by the travel disruption

Fall tree colors
Out for a walk yesterday in Allentown, PA.

 

Fall tree colors
We walked and talked, and stopped for a few photos.

 

Literally shut out by the travel disruption. No exercise to speak of on Friday or yesterday (Monday). Did get a 5k walk in yesterday, so that was better than nothing.

Take what we can get when the going gets tougher.

And always always always…keep moving (forward).

 

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Win some, lose some, keep going

Alzheimers disease statistics
Perhaps in less time than every 68 seconds, a high school graduate decides to never again exercise.

 

Nursing Home bulletin board
Nursing Home bulletin board full of alarming statistics.

 

Win some, lose some, keep going.

Lose the battle but win the war.

Staying active is proverbial winning the war.

Not exercising on this trip is losing the proverbial battle.

Traveling, cold weather, commitments and adjusting to a new routine all make exercise more challenging.

We know this.

Yet we try to overcome it.

We often fail more than succeed at this.

Let it go.

Soon enough you’ll be home again.

 

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This website is about our physical health. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s spiritual health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.