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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Are your 2010 Health and Fitness goals still burning inside you?
Or has the fire of your resolution started to cool?
Or maybe there’s a feeling of being somewhere in the middle – not on fire and not ready to quit, but stuck.
Today, simply by looking around you everywhere, you will see that the hardest thing to do is to be a great example.
Why is that?
Hello everyone. Hope you had a healthy week. It’s challenging isn’t it?
Diet and exercise. Sounds so simple.
Then why are we an obese society? An unhealthy society? Why?
Can someone help explain why this is so, and even more compelling, why we as a society, just put our heads in the sand and pretend like it doesn’t exist? Why we pretend like it’ll go away if we ignore it long enough?
It’s a grand wish that our son (9) will get and stay healthy as a lifetime goal. With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, he’s 20 times more likely to develop colon cancer than the average person.
Last time I looked, colon cancer is bad news.
Lane 8 is a metaphor for life. For trying your best to do important things – like lead a healthy life.
And it started over a decade ago, with me running one mailbox a day for a week.
As my health improved, my desire to maintain it became harder to find.
What do Guido Mueller and Roger Bannister have in common?
Most people know Roger Bannister was the first person (1956) to run one mile in less than four-minutes.
So what did Guido Muller do? By the way, this is the same Guido as in yesterday’s post.
People who know, claim that what Guido Muller did in August at the 2009 Master’s Track & Field World Championships in Finland, is equivalent to what Roger Bannister did – humanly impossible.
I was there when it happened. In fact, I was filming all the 400 meter final races. And then this happened:
Impossible is nothing. Carpe diem.