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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Six freezing miles.
Four upper (chest) body layers.
Two lower (shorts) body layers.
Gloves and a hat.
Keep the vital (heart, lungs) organs warm and sensitive extremities (head, hands) covered, and you don’t need sweat pants.
What’s crazier, running in freezing weather in shorts, or not exercising as we age?
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Having lived in cold weather climates for 25 years, the cold weather never made it difficult enough to stop running.
Why?
Because staying healthy is self evident truth.
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(photos: Top, the warmest day so far. Middle, he doesn’t own sweatpants. Bottom, Coatland’s entrance.)
Weather is one of many excuses we can easily summon to postpone exercising.
Coatland at the mall. Spending a few hours away from the small one-bedroom Senior Living apartment seemed reasonable after three days.
Father and son hanging out. All the shoppers wearing coats, so we called it “Coatland”. A far cry from sub-tropical Orlando.
Wellness is a year-round commitment. Cold weather or no cold weather.
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Okay, so yesterday was a video of Jack the Bear in Mexico. And today we find Jack in Dallas (different trip) at a nice place.
It was 20 degrees the next morning and I found the willpower to run outside at 7:00AM. I used a pair of socks for gloves and had four layers on my upper body.
No sweatpants though, which took me back to the winter days in Pennsylvania, when a few of us would run distance runs in the snow and freezing temps, sans sweatpants.
Even found the willpower to do a core workout in the Hotel gym the night before, even though I was tired from travel.
So, here’s Jack commenting on where we stayed:
Yes it was a fancy hotel. And yes, Jack watched TV while I worked out and also when I ran in 20-degree temps. Not only is he one lucky bear, but he’s also very smart.
Not as in running, jogging, sprinting. On the run as in a hurry.
Spent four days in Anchorage, Alaska and did not exercise. Not by choice.
Got back late last night early this morning. There is no exercising this morning either. Five straight days without exercise. I feel the pain of everyone who struggles to make physical wellness a priority.
There is no easy way.
Well, actually, there is an easy way – simply don’t worry about it until the phone rings, “Excuse me, it’s for you. It’s your wake up call”.