You are off the hook and will no longer be bothered

email unsubscribe screen shot
Near the top, “You’ve been successfully unsubscribed”.

 

What if it said, “You’ve been successfully unsubscribed from all self-led health and wellness initiatives. You will no longer have to worry about staying active and well.”

 

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If we quit we will never know

Windermere Prep track
Yesterday morning.

 

Windermere Prep Athletics
Yesterday, a Sunday.

 

If we quit we’ll never know.

Have given much thought to canceling the trip to France in two weeks.

The Father’s Day injury has literally cancelled the last 40 days of training. Even if i’ve recovered from the injury, the lost conditioning and strength edge i had is gone.

If i quit i’ll never know.

So i haven’t quit, in spite of the (unnecessary) impending embarrassment from weak performance.

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i quit, he said to himself

Sanibel Island Palm trees at dawn
Yesterday morning’s 7-miler.

 

West Gulf Drive, Sanibel
Yesterday morning’s 7-miler.

 

Crawfish crossing the road
Yesterday morning’s 7-miler.

 

Crawfish crossing the road
Yesterday morning’s 7-miler.

 

Sanibel Island Road sign
Yesterday morning’s 7-miler.

 

i quit, he said to himself.

On yesterday morning’s first run on Sanibel Island, the pain kicked in big time at mile six, during a three-minute half-mile interval.

With Nationals and World’s looming, where i wanted to be and where i am are far apart.

Wisdom is knowing the real goal is to simply to be able to run freely, and pain-free.

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Why do these things continue to happen?

Moon
iPhone 6 wasn’t that great in capturing the moon. But the the notion of the moon and stars aligning…

 

Why do these things continue to happen?

Pain, injury, set backs.

Why?

The real reason – the one we never see – is the fact that we haven’t quit.

These challenges keep surfacing because we are still on the path to somewhere – a dream maybe.

Turn back, or quit, and none of these things are anything to worry about.

Pain has migrated from right calf to right ankle.

So weird and unexplainable.

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Lifetime exercise seems limited to people who truly love exercise

lake Butler Blvd in Windermere, Florida
Sharp’s Peacock Farm

 

Map My Run near Disney World
Yesterday’s run through Windermere.

 

Lifetime exercise seems limited to people who truly love exercise.

Newsflash, it’s not the magic that makes it work, it’s the hard work that makes it magic.

The refusal to quit is the secret sauce that no one talks about.

Only running three days a week as a retiree. This past week was astonishing with runs of 14, 13.1 and 10 miles.

Hidden in these numbers is the lifetime longest and second longest runs ever, in 55 years.

How is that possible?

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