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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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Just get started, please.
Time, comparison, inability, lack of motivation, procrastination.
Screw those things.
Note: When i started running in 1999, 100 meters was all i could do. Yesterday however, mile 8 was the final (and fastest) mile if you subtract mile 9 as a cool down and mile 10 as a walk (additional cool down).
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She’s 92. She needs heart ablation surgery to repair her heart.
The surgeon, scheduled for two months from now, has an opening in three days.
Her husband is 89 and cannot walk. He relies on 24-hour nursing care.
They live in the same Senior Facility but in two separate wings, based on their health.
Cheryl will be in Allentown for 10 days to assist her Mom before and after surgery.
We are leaving in a few minutes for the hour drive to the airport. Then an hour drive home.
Hoping to begin an hour-long run by 7am so i can take our 8th-grader to school at 8am.
Running is important, in spite of the time pressures, because it mitigates many unhealthy side effects (from inactivity) that crop up over the decades.
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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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Gonna start exercising in retirement.
Sounds familiar. And predictable.
Probably not gonna happen. Sure hope it does though.
Crazy thing is we think retirement will change things.
Challenged a retired Disney colleague to drive the speed limit. All the time.
At Gold’s Gym recently, Fred said this, “It’s funny how your pace of life slows down when you aren’t hurrying (speeding) to the next thing.
Why do retirees still drive fast?
Could write a book.
Wait, already did.
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