Elementary school play on a Friday night after working 6am-5pm
A Christmas traditional, The Singing Trees, after working all day Saturday
As if Baby Boomers need a reminder for this physical BFO – blinding flash of the obvious:
Use it or lose it.
Our body houses everything that keeps us alive. It thrives on exercise, good food, and rest.
Only ran two days in the past seven. Grueling holiday schedule. Everyone has the same list of excuses.
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This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. It’s a breeze to go from this physical health blog to the spiritual health blog, just click -> go to Next Blog
Wanted to mention the obvious, because it may not be. Blog comments add a rich thread to the social media conversation. In fact, yesterday, David left a comment that also included a website called c25k. It proposes that you can go from couch potato to running a sub-30 minute 5k in nine weeks.
Sound too good to be true? You’ll have to decide.
When I started running 11 years ago, I jogged, very slowly, to my neighbors mailbox that first day, and did it four more days that week. The second week, I ran past the first mailbox to the second and did that for a week. The third week, ran past the first two mailboxes to the third. Did that each day for a week. Mailboxes are 100 meters apart.
So it took one month before I was running 400 meters, the equivalent to one lap around a track. A month. Are ya with me. The second four weeks…. (to be continued).