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When the unexpected bad things happen, we have two major choices

(photo: This is the path that takes us to the beach on Sanibel Island. Down one loved one on this morning’s walk.)

When the unexpected bad things happen, we have two major choices:

Lose control
Maintain control

Like anything else in life, the degree to which we prioritize our busy schedules is the degree to which we plan for bad things.

The time to worry about bad things is when we don’t have to.

Does it make us immune from pain.

No.

It’s still hard as hell.

Imagine if we didn’t exercise, eat right and get decent rest.

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Be as prepared as possible

Airport parking garage — Typical travel day is easily 12+ hours per day

Banking on yesterday’s slow five-mile run and a gym workout to pay dividends for the next four days of physical inactivity in Calgary.

Two long days of all day travel and two long days of classroom instruction.

This is how it goes.

Be as prepared as possible.

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Dear Boomers, the first and most important rule of exercise

Seattle ship yard — We are taught to carry the heaviest load we can stand

The first and most important rule of Baby Boomer exercise.

Plan for nothing to go the way you think it will.

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Planning ahead doesn’t always work, but…

Disney's Jungle Cruise poster — The jungle doesn’t care what our plans are

Planning ahead doesn’t always work, but it’s better than the alternative.

Some things in life are so simple we dismiss them.

This is our greatest opportunity – to make common sense common in our life.

Road trip to Iowa: early days, which are also long days. No time for exercise.

Anticipating this I planned for today and tomorrow to be planned rest days. No guilt. Only joy in seeing a plan come together.

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Never saw it coming is a big reason people quit

running in France — it was better than no run at all

Never saw it coming is a big reason people quit. Case in point. Two weeks ago I spent a week in Paris…only ran 15 minutes. The past week nursing a severe head cold…huge wrench in running plans. Falling two weeks behind compared to where I’ve been working years to get back to…just another day in paradise.

Don’t quit. Even when things happen you never saw coming. Be flexible. Adapt. Stay healthy, have fun.

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